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Formulas to durations or equivalent
I am building a production scheduler with a built in calculator where by the operator can adjust the labour allocation to test the duration output. My problem is Smartsheet won't allow durations to be edited by way of a formula. Also I am wanting the variables to be as follows: Completion Date - Constant (fixed) Variable…
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Clock Hour Progress Management
Hello, My name is James Smith. I am an Instructor for Gateway Community College in Phoenix, AZ. I am Looking for alternative methods to track time as student’s progress through our courses. I am not looking for a time management system, just a tool to enter a student’s hours into a spreadsheet or software to help me manage…
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Smartsheet Workspace to excel using the connector
Before upgrading to the next tier (where the connector exists), I want to make sure what I want to do is possible. Can the connector pass an entire workspace to Excel, rather than individual files. There is a workspace that contains many gantt chart files and an easy to view row summary of each chart is wanted such that it…
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Working with dependencies is a nightmare
Dear Smartsheet, I have a two change requests, because at the moment working with dependencies is really inefficient and time consuming: 1. Auto calculate lag when creating dependencies: when I create a dependency it automatically changes start or end dates. This is very annoying and time consuming because you always have…
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Automate RYGB and Children together
I have a standard project sheet. I added one column called Today that in Row1 links to a separate sheet that will be triggered everyday so that it gets Today's date (this gets you around using the Today function which only triggers when a sheet is opened), every row below that first row then has a =CellReference the cell…
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Start always today's date?
Is there a setting to always have the start date as todays date and the end date does not chang? Thanks in advance. Grant
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date trigger formula
Im wondering if there is in smartsheet formula that can transfer task name to another sheet when the date is today?
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Multi-Layer Gantt Chart
Hello, I'd like to create a Gantt chart which allows me to layer an original date range and an actual date range. This way, I would be able to show how a schedule has changed against an original base line. Ideally, i'd like to be able to see the original date as one color, and the actual date as a slightly different color,…
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#REF in Predecessors
What do these errors mean in my Predecessor columns and the Edit Predecessor set-up window? I can't figure out what to do with them. I searched the Help Center and they say that #REF means "The formula references a cell which does not exist, possibly due to a row/column deletion." but this is not in a formula so I can't…
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Critical path disappeared
I was updating a project gantt chart and at some point the critical path red outline disappeared (no I didn't turn it off, I checked!) What is required that this is visible? I had to break some task dependencies to get the bars to actually show real-world dates, could that be it?