set a Start or Close date on a week end

Largo

hi,

I'm currently unable to set a date (start or close) on a Sunday or Saturday. Smartsheet automatically select Friday.

This is a Christian bias.

For a multi-country projects where people work in "Christian"- and "Muslim"- regulated countries, the "weekend", by law, start on Thursday, Friday or Saturday.

Ideally, I just want Smartsheet to consider every day of the week without discrimination.

Is this possible?

I do see a problem: the Duration could be wrongly calculated. but I don't care that much about duration anyway. ("remaining days", "man-days" "% Progress" are better indicators.

Andrée Starå

Hi @Largo

I hope you're well and safe!

You can change this in the Project Settings.

https://help.smartsheet.com/articles/765755-modifying-project-settings

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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Largo

hi,

thanks for the prompt reply. That would work indeed, I guess I have to contact our system admin to make that change on the existing project.

Andrée Starå

@Largo

Excellent!

You're more than welcome!

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Largo

Hi,

after some experience, changing the definition of working days is not a good solution. in most cases, the task is set to complete on a week end day (while it should be completed on the next business day).

so making week end behave the same as work day solve a problem but create others.

but by reading some other articles, I found, I believe, a much better solution: use elapsed duration.

with elapsed duration, I can define a task to finish or strart on any day, including week end. With this approach, I seem to be able to have various task running over non-working day at will.

do you have the same view, or am I missing another side effect?