How do you alter the format of parent tasks?

Charlotte Magnall

Currently the parent task only displays as a grey. Its extremely hard to look at and difficult to decipher parent tasks. How do I change the colour or format to identify different types of parents

Andrée Starå

Hi @Charlotte Magnall

You can use Conditional Formatting to alter the format.

More info:

https://help.smartsheet.com/articles/516359-conditional-formatting

Would that work/help?

I hope that helps!

Be safe and have a fantastic week!

Best,

Andrée Starå | Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

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Charlotte Magnall

@Andrée Starå Hi Andree,

When I tried this, it wouldn't apply to Parent rows. Is there a setting I need to update somewhere?

Thanks

Charlotte

Andrée Starå

@Charlotte Magnall

Happy to help!

You'll need to have something that tells the rule which rows are parents.

The simplest method would be to add a so-called helper column. You can use a checkbox column and check the parents' boxes and then use that in the rule.

Make sense?