set a Start or Close date on a week end
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.
Answers
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Hi @Largo
I hope you're well and safe!
You can change this in the 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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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.
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Excellent!
You're more than welcome!
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SMARTSHEET EXPERT CONSULTANT & PARTNER
Andrée Starå | Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD
W: www.workbold.com | E:andree@workbold.com | P: +46 (0) - 72 - 510 99 35
Feel free to contact me for help with Smartsheet, integrations, general workflow advice, or anything else.
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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?
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