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Project Management: Weekly capture of actuals against planned hours
Many thanks in advance! We have a team of project associates that are asisgned to a number of tasks on a project in a smartsheet. I want to be able to send a timesheet to each resource at the end of every week. On the timesheet I would like to display the task for the week and ask for actual hours to be entered. These…
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Allocated Time % versus Duration
Can anyone tell me the correlation between Allocated Time % versus task duration? If I estimate that a task will take 2 days (16 working hours) to complete but then assign someone to it that only can work on it 50% of the time, why will the system automatically create a start and end dates that are consecutive days? Since…
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Limiting what customers can and cannot see for projects
We use smartsheets to run our customer projects. The approach we have used to date is to create a workspace for each customer, with the necessary sheets - all from a template. This works really well, as the customers need to review and contribute to several of the sheets that we use, and the workspace sharing feature lets…
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Auto/number - date on particular cell, not whole row
I'm trying to find a way how to populate a datestamp in a cell based on the last change from an another cell in a particular column fe: Row 1 - column A: dropdown (Start, pending, stop) Row 1 - Column B: I want the date when Status changed on column A Auto/number - date: works, but it looks at every cell on that row, i…
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Add Vacation to Individual Project for Individual Employee
I want to denote unavailable time for resources so when a task assigned to that person fell on an unavailable time period, the start and end dates accomodated for that automatically. Is there a way to do that in smartsheet?
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Working with an update request workflow
Hi, I have setup a workflow around an "Update Request" but the one field that I would like them to be able to update does not allow it. I have checked that the field is not locked as well. I have attached a snap shot of both the workflow and how the form comes through. What am I doing wrong?
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Smartsheet for Inventory using QR codes
Hello everyone, I'm a teacher who has to manage a "MakerSpace" - a design studio with lots of electronic equipment. It would be ideal if I could place a QR code sticker on an object, take a snapshot of it with the camera on an ipad, and arrive at the inventory Smartsheet that I've created where this object's original…
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Using COUNTIF on a Range with Cross-Sheet References
I am attempting to use a COUNTIF formula on a column of cells that have VLOOKUP formulas pulling in information from another sheet. The COUNTIF formula returns a #NO MATCH. When I copy/paste the VLOOKUP info into text only, the COUNTIF formula works but this destroys the advantage of using a VLOOKUP formula in the first…
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Columns Automatically Unhiding With Form Submission?
Hello all, We use a form for our open order sheet. We removed an item from our product list and I want to hide this item in our open order sheet (not deleted it, incase we add a new product because I already have all the automation and reporting set to include these columns). I have NUMEROUS hidden columns in this sheet,…
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IF AND date issue
Hello, I hope you can help please. We use Smartsheet to prioritise our workload. What we want to do is to highlight if a task is due this week but we have not manually indicated it as a priority for this week. I have written an IF AND to use a red indicator if the conditions above exist and green if not. It seems to work…