View "Today" line in Gantt on Dashboard

E. Robert Shanfeld

In a Report, I see a vertical line for "today's date" on the Gantt Chart. However, when the report is dropped onto a Dashboard, the vertical line is not displayed. Any suggestions?

Genevieve P.

Hi @E. Robert Shanfeld

Currently the Report Widget has different functionality than the source report and does not show the dotted Today's line, as you've noted (please let our Product team know about your feedback by filling in this form, here).

If it's important to display this, you can Publish the report and use the Published link in a Web Content Widget to add your report to the Dashboard via a different type of widget instead.

Cheers,

Genevieve

Steve Grinder

Absolutely needed - right now I screen capture the views with the dotted "today" line and paste that into docs for my customers because they have asked for the line! I need it in a Gantt Report - and then i can show it the Dashboards too.

liam_n

I think it is absolutely mental that this isn't a standard feature. I've used Smartsheet on and off over the years and still cannot fathom how this hasn't been sorted yet. Everyone expects to see a date line on a gantt chart in the dashboards. Please please could this be added :(

kendra_a

I was shocked to find this thread from almost 2 years ago! This seems like an oversight that the dashboard widget version of a Gantt chart would NOT show the today line - absurd. Is there an idea posted in the forums I can vote for to get this added?

Barak Schriger

Hi Everyone,

Thank you for the feedback. We are aware of this issue and are working to restore this functionality on Gantt view reports.

Please be aware though that this feature will not work properly if the date range in your Gantt view reports exceeds 2 years.

Thanks,

Barak

Barak Schriger

Hi Everyone,

Circling back here to confirm that we have restored the ability to display your report in gantt view on dashboards with todays date being the default (if setting on the report is enabled and the data in your report does not exceed 2 years).

Thanks,

Barak

Sam@fieldcore

Hello @Barak Schriger - It does not look like this is indeed fixed. You said "we have restored the ability to display your report in Gantt view on dashboards with todays date being the default"… but the problem statement in the thread was displaying the Today Line in the Gantt view on a dashboard.

I just built one… the today line displays correctly in the Gantt report, but when I put that report on a dashboard, the Today line is not visible. (Screenshots attached.) Did i miss a step?

Smartsheet issue with Today line in Dashboard 2024-0522.jpg

Barak Schriger

@Sam@fieldcore expectation is that it should open to todays date on the dashboard if you have the setting enabled to scroll to todays date at the source. The vertical line not appearing is something I think we need to look into, but it should open to todays date.

Sam@fieldcore

@Barak Schriger thanks for the response, but that option is not very helpful. Opening to today's date only serves to shift the Gantt chart… what is needed is the visual representation of today's date as a vertical dashed line. That works perfectly in the report Gantt view, as you can see in my attached screenshots. It is only when you bring the report into the dashboard that the Today line is lost.

That seems like a bug that would be fairly straightforward to address.

Smartsheet issue with Today line in Dashboard 2024-0522.jpg

Jhinde2011

Found this thread today and was there ever a fix on displaying a dashed line for "today" in a Smartsheet dashboard view of report Gantt?

JUST PJM

@Barak Schriger We are facing the same issue and I got already quite some complains that open today's date is not considered properly in the dashboards. I recognized that sometimes it is totally ignored… This is a very important basic functionality. Please look into that as soon as possible. Additionally the reportings often are not showing up at all (report is blank ⇒ dashboard is required to be refreshed. Thanks a lot

Barak Schriger

@JUST PJM thanks for the feedback. Are you saying that the report widget is not loading to today's date as expected (apart from not seeing the vertical line to highlight "today" like you do when viewing a standalone report)?

We are aware of the issue with the report widget intermittently loading blank and are actively working to resolve this bug - there is another thread in the community about this I noticed that we will update once resolved.

JUST PJM

@Barak Schriger Thanks a lot for follow up.

Yes correct, there are currently 3 issues:

1. The vertical line is not showing up
2. The setting "Open Today's date" in the report is ignored (at least sometimes). I just checked and the longest task started ~6months ago.
3. The reports in the dashboards are sometimes not loading and just blank

FYI: The dashboard viewer setting for showing the report is set to "Their own perspective".

So overall the major basic functionalities are just not working and I hope you could solve this as soon as possible. I guess many users will thank you.

Best regards, thanks so much and have a great day

Barak Schriger

Hi @JUST PJM thank you for clarifying.

• The vertical line is not showing up

To confirm the vertical line does not appear on dashboards as it does on the standalone report. This is something we are working on along with several other enhancements to the report widget.

• The setting "Open Today's date" in the report is ignored (at least sometimes). I just checked and the longest task started ~6months ago.

For the reports where it's not scrolling there is a known limitation if the gantt is longer than 2 years. Can you confirm if that's the case with your data source? Sounds like for some widgets is working but for others it's not?

• The reports in the dashboards are sometimes not loading and just blank

This bug was resolved late last week. Please do let me know if you are still experiencing this issue.

JUST PJM

Dear @Barak Schriger ,

I just checked and tried to make it happen. It's not working…. "Open Today's Date"

See screenshot from report in dashboard. It's not opening at 17th Dec 24:

report.png

I tried following:

• Defined settings in report:
  • Filtered out start date that is older then 300days
  • Set "Open today's date" -
  • Directly refresh the report shows the correct view (see report2.png)
    report2.png
• On the dashboard I created the report widget - tried multiple settings (last widget editor, their own view)
  • Not working out (see report.png)

Regarding loading of dashboards… The report widget sometimes also is not loading the gantt. Please see the attached screenshot:

reportwidget_not loading properly.png

I have seen following behaviour now:

When I refresh the browser (Edge & Google Chrome same behaviour), the reports change their behaviour after each refresh (1 out of ~4 seems OK), sometimes not showing gantt, sometimes showing false "Open Today's date". Hopefully this input helps.

I am open to a screenshare session if you want that I personally show you the behaviour.

Thank you