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How can I make a "Status" field change "Percentage Complete?"
Hello, I'm wondering how I can sync a dropdown menu (Status Column) to another column (Percentage Complete). Ideally, this function would change the Percentage Complete column to 100% when the status is marked "complete." Thanks in advance for your help with this! - Mike
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Master sheets - why sheets and not reports?
New to SS. Setting up many project sheets and then want the high level info pulled together onto a master sheet. Videos I've watched say to create a master sheet and link data in from project sheets. Project management webinar I watched has a company that designs/fabricates/installs 10,000 signs per year (complicated…
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Consolidated Update Requests
When we first had access to Smartsheet, we were able to view all of our update requests on one screen. Did that go away or am I just missing it. Is there any other way to consolidate that information?
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Enhancement Request: relative addressing for cell linking in sheets, reports and sights
It would be great to be able to use relative addressing in cell linking between sheets and links in reports and sights instead of the fixed linking as currently implemented in Smartsheet. Why? We use Smartsheet for project management and have a set up a standard workspace which contains set of sheets/reports and sights…
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Dates Don't Act As Dates if Linked from Another Smartsheet
In short... if I pull a date from another sheet using "Link from Cell in Another Sheet", I can't do formulas off that date. I've verfied that the columns are formatted as dates. [Opening Date]1 is linked from another Smartsheet. I want to add 180 days to the [Opening Date]1. [Opening Date]1 = 08/22/82 Here's what the…
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Contacts and Web forms
Hi Everyone, I am relatively new to smartsheets and there are two things I have been trying to work out adn for the life of me can not find the information to show how its done. The first is having a field aut populate based on picking a contact e.g Contact name = Gary Bee then the next cell should auto popolate with Gary…
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Running Multiple Projects on SS
Hey SS Community, I am involved with a company that currently has no central data base overviewing all projects. I want to put a system in place where the PMs can manage their own projects. Also a system where the sales, quoting and other teams can oversee how the projects unfold throughout the project life cycle. I…
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Effectively using Link Cells
Hi guys, I'm eager to understand the easiest approach for using the Link Cell functionality with templates. I am building a 'Project Master Listing' document that will have cell links to multiple 'Individual Project' documents. When each new 'Individual Project' is created i am assuming i need to manually associate the…
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Auto-populate %complete based on dates / duration
Hi, All my project sheets are all set up with project, status, start date, end date, duration, %complete and predecessors. I also have a checkbox column to mark when a task is complete. I'd like to format my % complete column so that it auto-calculates how much of a task has been done based on the start and end dates. I'd…
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Best practices; optimum template design for pulling/pushing distilled info from a sheet
Typical project management templates are not designed to easily get a distilled summary of important points. I am wondering if these is a template out there that would allow for easily pushing out or pulling from a sheet the following. If this info is in form of a symbol (Harvey Ball symbols for example) instead of numbers…
