Display Tasks for the week

Andrea Westrich

I have a project plan that has tasks and due dates each week. I am using a report to put this week's tasks on a dashboard. However, I am only able to use the filter on Due Date in the next 5 days and/or in the past # days. As they go through the week, this will end up showing them tasks that may be due next week. I want this report to show the current calendar week, no matter what day of the week the user looks at the report.

Is this possible?

Sam M.

Hi @Andrea Westrich ,

I think this might work for you.

You can add another column to the sheet that has this formula:

=IF(WEEKNUMBER([Due date]@row) = WEEKNUMBER(TODAY()), "This week", "-")

 

Then on the report you can filter by that column:

Hope it works for you,

Sam

Sam M.

Hi @Andrea Westrich ,

I think this might work for you.

You can add another column to the sheet that has this formula:

=IF(WEEKNUMBER([Due date]@row) = WEEKNUMBER(TODAY()), "This week", "-")

 

Then on the report you can filter by that column:

Hope it works for you,

Sam

Andrea Westrich

@Sam M. PERFECT!! Why didn't I think of that! Thanks so much!

Sam M.

You're welcome!

Ira Horowitz

I'm also working on a similar problem. When I implemented this solution, I found that you have to visit the original source sheet for the helper column formula to update. If you don't visit that source sheet, the formula doesn't rerun leaving the "this week" for rows assigned in previous weeks.

When implementing this solution on 100s of sheets, it's not possible to visit all of them to trigger the formula. Are there any other workarounds to show a report with rows assigned only this week?

Andrée Starå

Hi @Ira Horowitz

I hope you're well and safe!

Please have a look at my post below with a method I developed to update the sheet(s) daily.

More info: 

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/74527/daily-update-solution-without-the-need-to-open-the-sheet-use-zapier-or-similar

I hope that helps!

Be safe and have a fantastic week!

Best,

Andrée Starå | Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

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Andrew R.

Hello! I'm following up on this and want to check to see if I can make a small change to this formula. I've implemented this amazingly useful formula, but I also want to be able to check for this AND next week's. So a question I have is whether or not this filter would fulfill that request.

I already have a helper column with the formula listed above. But in addition, I have the "Start Date in the last 7 days" and "Start Date in the next 7 days" filters included.

Does this make sense? Thank you!