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?