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How have you secured buy-in from other departments (business, sales, etc) to use Smartsheet?
Hello! Any tips and tricks to encourage the other departments (outside of Project Management/PPM) to use Smartsheet?
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Task Status Update based on Previous Step Completion
I've been asked to lock the "Status" column and only allow changes to the "% Complete" field by the assigned task owners. This admittedly will limit the use of all the status' as I'm trying to develop a strategy to simply change my approach and limit the functionality options. My Status column should ideally include the…
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Ideas on how to manage high volume, bundled update requests?
Hey Folks, I manage a later sheet where we will be rolling out regular Update Requests. These requests are grouped by Lead by Project. This means that when a request is triggered, some individuals may have 10+ project rows requesting an update. The issue: When these are triggered at the same time, they become bundled into…
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Columns Moving Automatically
Has anyone had any issues with column headers moving around the sheet automatically. I have multiple sheets referencing each other using vlookups to report back and also to use tools I have created. Therefore the location of certain columns are highly critical to my companies daily workflows. I have already confirmed that…
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From End Date Calculate Start Date
a date function that start with the "due" date(end date) and total hours to calculate the start date
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Joyful Animations - in Smartsheet!
I am proposing bringing a bit of pizzazz to Smartsheet by having celebratory animations for certain criteria. Think Joyful Animations in Outlook! My team was hoping to have some sort of confetti pop/gif/image when we close out a project or hit a milestone. Bonus points if it is configurable like the automations are.
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Has Anyone Found Success Using Both Smartsheet and Microsoft Power Platform?
Hi everyone 👋 I work for a mid-sized company (~5,000–6,000 employees) that’s heavily invested in Microsoft technologies — we use Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and more. At the same time, Smartsheet is widely used across our teams, especially for project tracking and collaboration. Right now, we’re in the middle of…
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MS Project vs Smartsheet connectivity
I have a project that is run in MS Project (Desktop) on clients SharePoint, which we also want to have in our Smartsheet account so that we can track the progress and allocated resources, without duplicating efforts on updating both. I have found this can be done via Data Shuttle (which supports desktop version of MS)…
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Project Cutover Planning
I have been working to transition my Excel based cutover plan to Smartsheet. I have read the posts about the challenges with Date and Time and having the ability to calculate duration with these challenges. Has anyone identified a truly viable option to track tasks at the minute, hour and day level for both child and…
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IF AND OR not working properly, last IF not triggering anything
Please help me figure out why this is not working: =IF([% Complete]@row = 1, "Completed", IF(AND([Start Date]@row <= TODAY(60), [% Complete]@row = 0), "Not Started", IF(AND(NOT(ISBLANK([Start Date]@row )), NOT(ISBLANK([% Complete]@row ))), "In Progress", IF(AND([Start Date]@row >= TODAY(61), [% Complete]@row = 0),…