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I use the Card View for quickly creating tasks and tracking their status/state. I'm trying to see if it's possible to take this further and populate the Start Date and End Date fields when the task first enters a specific state. See screenshot attached.
No, timestamping is not a function of Smartsheets at this point. It would be great to have this functionality so I suggest submitting a Product Enhancement Request.
This could be done with Zapier, if your Dependencies are not enabled.
See this post for some ideas:
http://ronin-global.com/2016/12/11/smartsheet-fixed-date-upon-completion/
Craig
Submitted. Thanks!
I've also run into this post here discussing how it could be done via formula. The main issue with that methodology is that any new entries would have to have that formula manually put in each time.
You're welcome.
why cant this be done with a ghant chart?
Hi bbuck, the issue with that formula that I originally posted --- is that the formula for today() will always update the date to the current day whenever the sheet is opened. The Today() formula always displays the current date. So that post is not a working solution.
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