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Setting Non-Working Days based on Assigned to name
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
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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!
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Hi Monikka-- Heidi is correct; this is something that is on our enhancement request list and I've added your vote for it!
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Thanks for the update on planned features. As we promote more globalization, I imagine that this will become more of an issue.
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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
