Dashboard Timeline

Trym Dahl

Hi,

Im setting up a project dashboard and i´d like to have some sort of a visualization of the project timeline.  What Ive done is Ive created a report that extracts all the headlines from our activity sheet and that report is then shown as a widget in the dashboard. In the report however, there is a feature that allows my to start the gantt view from todays date while in the dasboard, it seems to by default start from the 1st of january so basically in order to see the visualization of todays activitys, you have to scroll. Is there a way of fixing this?

 

(Also I´d love to get some input from others if you have some third party apps or such that integrates and can create more imposive live data visualizations than the Smartsheet Gantt!)

Andrée Starå

Hi Trym,

You can select the range to show in the report, and there also is a workaround to show from today's date. (I'll get back to you with more information)

More info: https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/dashboard-gantt-show-only-today-forward

You could use the Web Content Widget to show something from Lucidchart or import the Gantt Chart to the add-on called Office Timeline and show that on the dashboard

https://www.smartsheet.com/apps/officetimeline

Would that work?

Have a fantastic week!

Best,

Andrée Starå

Workflow Consultant @ Get Done Consulting

David Dolch

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/comment/147871#Comment_147871

This is an older thread, but hopefully Andree will still see this response.

Andree, you state "import the Gantt Chart to the add-on called Office Timeline and show that on the dashboard". How would you display the Office Timeline chart on the dashboard? Is there a dynamic way to do this?

We have over 100+ projects in flight with over 35 project managers at any one time. I cannot be updating static graphics to paste into executive summary dashboards. I need a way for SS to dynamically update a SIMPLE timeline that is based on a current, complex, project plan.

Thanks