Dashboard - adding date/time visually

Lara Lehnerz · 05/11/22

Hello,

I would like to add the date and time or a clock display using the Web content widget. Has anyone done this?

Genevieve P. · 05/12/22

There isn't a specific Widget that can embed a Clock or Time in a Smartsheet Dashboard (please submit your feedback to the Product team through this form, here!)

This article has a list of embeddable content in Dashboards: Embed Custom Content in Dashboards and WorkApps

One way to display just the Date would be to use a Sheet with a Record a Date workflow to update the date in a cell each day. Then you could use this cell as the source for a Metric Widget on your Dashboard.

Another option may be to look into a browser extension that adds a date/time so you can see it while looking at the Dashboard.

Cheers,

Genevieve

Lara Lehnerz · 05/11/22

Update - I found code to do this, but I get the following error:

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Genevieve P. · 05/12/22

Hi @Lara Lehnerz

There isn't a specific Widget that can embed a Clock or Time in a Smartsheet Dashboard (please submit your feedback to the Product team through this form, here!)

This article has a list of embeddable content in Dashboards: Embed Custom Content in Dashboards and WorkApps

One way to display just the Date would be to use a Sheet with a Record a Date workflow to update the date in a cell each day. Then you could use this cell as the source for a Metric Widget on your Dashboard.

Another option may be to look into a browser extension that adds a date/time so you can see it while looking at the Dashboard.

Cheers,

Genevieve

Lara Lehnerz · 05/16/22

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/comment/329351#Comment_329351

Hi Genevieve,

Thank you for the response. The third option is working for now.

Jesus J. · 02/24/23

Hi @Lara Lehnerz

I'd like to know about the third option you used for a date/time or clock widget. Is it still working?

Lara Lehnerz · 02/24/23

Hi @Jesus J.

The way I got the date to display on my dashboard, was I created 'current date' field in the Sheet then in the Dashboard used the 'Metric Widget' to pull in the current date.

From my dashboard:

Hopefully that helps.

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