Overlay Google Calendar in SS in a grid

Miguel Urquijo
edited 12/09/19 in Formulas and Functions

Im going to implement a time management report in the company to understand how the staff spend their time (meetings, planning, execution, travel, etc) To do this we use a name code in Google Calendar that enable us to automate the analysis, like this. 

  • All meeting start with MEETING...
  • Task-related to projects starts with the name of the project: PROJECT NAME - task 1
  • Travel moments are name, TRAVEL point A to B
  • among others

Unless this report is created automatically is not worth the effort to get these insights. For this reason, I want to overlay Google Calendar in a grid of SS where I can formulate a sum of the time spend in MEETING, PROJECT NAME 1, PROJECT NAME 2, TRAVEL and so on. 

I need to put G calendar information on a grid like this:

ACTIVITY          DATE           START TIME          END TIME

Any ideas on how to accomplish this? 

 

 

Comments

  • Shaine Greenwood
    Shaine Greenwood Employee
    edited 03/14/18

    Hi Miguel,

    There currently isn't a way to overlay a google calendar on the grid view or perform calculations on a google calendar.

    Calendar files export in .ics format, which is incompatible with Smartsheet's acceptable file formats (.csv, .xls, .xml) for importing.

    When you have a moment, please submit a Product Enhancement Request to let our Product team know that you'd like to see this feature added to Smartsheet.

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