Setting Non-Working Days based on Assigned to name

Monikka Mann

Hello, I have a rather odd question that I'm not sure if anyone else has dealt with.

 

We have a project with team members located at different facilities around the globe. As a result, we have different holidays associated with the various regions (EU, USA, Asia Pacific, etc) that will impact the working days available for my teammates to complete work.

 

Is there a way to set non-working days on an individual basis based on the teammember's name in the Assigned to column?

 

Thanks in advance for any assistance!

 

Monikka M. Mann

Heidi Decker

Hi Monikka,

Right now there is no way to set working days by resource. The working days and non-working days are set at the sheet level. Are all the resource working on the same project?  Depending on your answer and how many resources you have, you could have a sheet for each resource, link them together by task and view them as a master sheet or report. I know this isn't what you wanted to hear, however this is an item that has been brought up to the Smartsheet Gods and we hope someday it will happen.

Peace!

Kennedy Stomps

Hi Monikka-- Heidi is correct; this is something that is on our enhancement request list and I've added your vote for it!

Monikka Mann

Thanks for the update on planned features. As we promote more globalization, I imagine that this will become more of an issue.

J. Craig Williams

Monikka,

 

We built a holiday schedule sheet that included all of the likely countries my team (and others in the company) would be visiting based on a website like this:

 

http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/

 

(I don't remember if that was the exact one we used)

Then we made that a resource enabled sheet and I went through my team person by person and assigned the holidays based on the current planning.

Then, when there was a conflict in the schedule (the little red man), it was a quick reminder that the PM needed to be aware of something.

 

It prevented sending an engineer to a foreign country when they were "closed", so time well spent.

 

Craig