Conditional Formatting: "Today is in-between Start Date and End Date"?

Caleb Steinborn

Hi all,

I built a filter to show my tasks that are due today with a green highlight. However, it does not capture tasks that last across several days (see the different shades of green in the attached image - bright green is a "today" task, and the woodland green is default). How can I extend my conditional formatting to include dates in-between my Start and End dates in my filter?

Best Regards,

Caleb

MattH

See the first line of the attachment. Is this what you're looking to do?

Caleb Steinborn

Yes, that helped! Now my problem is that the conditional formatting is reflecting on all of my headers (see image).

Setting "Start in the Past + End in the Future" works well for identifying ongoing tasks on my Gantt Chart, but I am still in search for a way to filter that "Today is between Start and End."

MattH

Are you familiar with the filter menu? Filtering is quite a trivial task; here's the link to the smartsheet introduction page for this feature: 

https://www.smartsheet.com/blog/new-release-save-multiple-filters-enhanced-search-publish-sights

Please see the attachment for an example of what you might use. In most of my filters, I always use "Show parent rows", but you may not want to. (See the first screenshot).

 

Regarding your header coloring problem: 

Do you have a column that could be used to EXCLUDE these rows? For instance, maybe headers don't have an assigned contact? For my example, I made a new column named "format" which is a checkbox. See the second screenshot for an example of what that might look like. 

To utilize this new column: 

In order to format rows, this column would be checked. (Or, if you flopped the logic in the conditional formatting, unchecked). 

You COULD, if you wish, use a formula to mark this as unchecked if row is a header. This formula might look like this: 

=IF(COUNT(CHILDREN()) > 0, true, false)

For the questions that will inevitably arise surrounding auto filling formulas: https://help.smartsheet.com/articles/1641473-auto-filling-formulas-and-formatting