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Does Smartsheet have an equivalent to Excel's RAND() function?
Hi, I'm trying to determine whether Smartsheet has a feature similar to a heat map, where cell colors automatically adjust based on changing values across a column. Since the values are constantly changing, using fixed conditional formatting ranges isn't practical. Is there a way to color cells relative to the column…
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Is it possible for multiple column links, formulas, and manual data to all exist in one destination column?
Can a single destination column support multiple column links coming from different source sheets to populate different rows within the column, as well as allow formulas or manual data entry in other rows in that same column? I have different sheets (A, B, C) where teams document their capacity month to month. Each month…
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Formatted Dates and Text
Hi everyone! I have a list of report dates that I want to be notified on, but am having trouble getting this set up. My thought process was to create a column with =TODAY() in the first cell, and then set up automations to be alerted when "Today" equals the "Report Date". My issue is that two are different formats. The…
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IF TODAY function
Hi All i am trying to determine the stage that a project should have readhed by today, based on a series of milestone dates across the row however, in this particular example i am getting #invalid operation which may be due to the blanks. they are blanks because they currently have no date which is probably a flaw in the…
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Lagging Formula Calculation
Hi all, Question: What makes cell formula update/populate a value and why would there be a long delay? Here's my issue: I noticed a request was stuck in my workflow, and when I reviewed the cell history on the helper columns I noticed the culprit was a cell with a relatively simple formula that didn't populate a result…
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Best practice for cross-team project dependencies and consolidating reporting?
Hi everyone, I am looking for advice on the best way to architect a cross-team project tracking system. My current setup: I have multiple teams, each maintaining their own individual project sheet. Each sheet contains a list of projects specific to that team. The Goal: Cross-team Dependencies: I want to add a dropdown…
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INDEX/MATCH
I am building out my sheet summary from a schedule. I have a Parent Row column and all of my parent rows have a checkbox. I want a formula that looks at the first checkbox and looks at the status. If status is Complete, that summary field would then indicate that the Project is in Definition. If the status is In Progress…
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Combine Contacts from multiple columns into a single cell
Allowing contact columns to be combined into a multi-select contact column would make team management and index sheets much more useful. If Columns 2 through 10 on my sheet are all contact columns, a formula like =Contact2@row + Contact3@row + Contact6@row should produce a multicontact cell, not a text cell. That would…
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Combine emails into a multiple-contact column / multi-contact column
Multiple-contact columns can be problematic to use in Smartsheet. Namely, they cannot be "put together" with a formula. There's many use cases where you need to build multiple contacts into a cell based on criteria/lookups, but there isn't a way to do that in native core Smartsheet. There is, however, a couple of methods…
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COUNTIFS in Sheet Summary utilizing a Contact Card column
I am trying to create a sheet summary, where the field is a formula that relies on a contact card within a column. However, it keeps returning a result of "#NO MATCH". The columns involved are, 1:) Priority (symbol column) for Up, Unchanged, and Down, and 2:) Contact Card column. I am trying to get a sheet summary formula…