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How Smartsheet define, handle and monitor allocation on teammember
Hi fellow Smartsheeteers, I encounter another challenging scenario that some of you have encountered and find a solution to it. Here is the scenario: I have task as an individual and also have task as a team member. Example of task that involves team are doc reviews with a group of people. I have numerous scenarios: 1)…
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Assign a task to more than one person?
Is there a way to assign more than one person to a task without having to create a whole new separate row or splitting the task into multiple tasks? It seems a bit messy to do so if I have a lot of tasks that will need multiple resources.
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No Bars
I have imported a checklist from excel, set it up as a Gantt (transposed columnar hierarchy,) put in predecessors, and durations. No bars appear on the chart. What's up with that?
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Complete % on parent task and sub tasks
Just discovered this on project sheet and was wondering what could have caused it? One parent task in my sheet is showing the value "1" when a subtask is set to 100% Other parent tasks in the same sheet is showing 100% when the sub tasks are set to 100%. A bug or RTFM?
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Help with Gantt chart -- only two bars showing
I created a timeline and when I chose Gantt view only two bars on the Gant chart are showing even though I have probably 25 tasks. I have a beginning and end date for all tasks. How do I get the items to show on the Gantt view? Screenshot attached. Many thanks for any help.
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Schedule tracking - SPI vs user perspective
Hi, The scheduling tracking feature in Smartsheet shows that Parent Task is ahead of schedule for below, with Today = 10-Sep-2018 Task From To Completion Parent 06-Aug-2018 21-Sep-2018 83% Task A 06-Aug-2018 10-Aug-2018 100% Task B 13-Aug-2018 17-Aug-2018 100% Task C 20-Aug-2018 24-Aug-2018 100% Task D 27-Aug-2018…
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Plotting a total over time
I'm trying to do some rough and ready resource planning. I've created a column called 'Dummy resource' and I'm putting in it the number of people who will be working on the each task. I'd like to produce a plot of the daily total of this number (sum of people working on active tasks) against the date for the duration of…
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How to track external dependencies
I am building a project that has external dependency to be delivered on a specific date . How do you create this dependency? Do you create a task with no duration? (start and finish date are same)?
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Combine Kanban flow and Gannt
This might be a post in the category feature/best practice. I do find myself working quite often in a combination of Kanban and Gannt. The feature/best practice I would like to find is a way of handling some tasks as pure Kanban items in card view without soiling my beautiful Gannt view. As an example, if I do need to add…
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Gmail add on for Smartsheet
The Gmail add on worked twice, but now doesn't place the email into the spreadsheet. It still finds the spreadsheet and the rows, but when you either select an existing row or attempt to add a row the cursor circles for a few seconds then stops and nothing further happens. Not sure where to go next. Any help would be…
