Elapsed Days in Predecessor Field

Bmullan

Predecessor Field Enhancement to Support Elapsed Days. There is a critical need for Smartsheet to incorporate the ability to link from working days to elapsed days within the Predecessor Field. This enhancement is not just a convenience but a necessity for comprehensive project management.

The integration of elapsed days with predecessors is a feature that has seen consistent demand over the years. Its absence significantly hampers our ability to accurately track project timelines, especially in our industry where work progresses continuously across both working days and weekends and holidays.

Please seriously consider the long-term benefits and user satisfaction that this enhancement will bring.

Community, if you don't have the time to leave a comment please vote up the most applicable existing comment.

smartsheet12345

Please add this feature! It would be incredibly helpful!

Jon A

+1 for this feature request, very important feature.

Rachel Paiva

Extremely important feature! There are many threads with this topic, but this seems most recent so hoping I can bump it here.

My constant headache is that I manage many tech projects with weekend migrations - but migrations always have go/no-go dependencies, so I want to keep my predecessors in place in case anything shifts upstream.

If a row has no dependencies, using elapsed time to override non-working days works just fine. But if the row has a predecessor, it's impossible to force the START date to begin on a non-working day.

PLEASE FIX THIS!!

Megan7

In the Community discussions I see 4 years of comments on multiple threads asking to add the use of elapsed time in predecessors - why hasn't this been implemented yet? Even when both the predecessor & the active task both have a elapsed time Duration, it still calculates the lag time in working days. So frustrating when my project is based on dependencies between different groups that have different working hours.