Notify assigned to that task is now ready for their work to begin

Jake Pruett

I have a product development sheet with dependencies and what I am envisioning is that when the predecessors to a particular task are completed and the task is now ready to work on, the row is emailed to the assignee.  For example, internal testing has been completed so we can now submit for certification.  Email Jerry to let him know that he's good to go with this task to submit.

 

How can this be done in SmartSheet?

 

Thanks in advance

Travis

This could be done with reminders! Reminders are automatic emails that are sent to remind users of tasks assigned to them. As long as the end date of the preceding task is updated upon completion, this will work. 

 

Here's an example:

 

In this example, Sub-task 2 is dependent on Sub-task 1, which means the Sub task 2 start date is one working day after the end Sub-task 1 end date (and will change with Sub-task 1 changes). 

 

So, set a reminder that says "Send whoever is assigned to a task, an email on the start date for their task". As long as the end date remains up to date (if a task is completed early or late, change the date to reflect that) then each user will get an email reminder on the correct start date of their tasks.