What to expect here: While I discuss Smartsheet , this isn’t a post about Smartsheet. It is about me and includes: An example of one of my ‘customer types’ An example of a problem, the solution, and the journey and This is part of a series of posts 1, discussions with friends and family, andRead more
Today’s Tip (2018-08-22): Based on this Community Post Smartsheet does not have a rich text field and the user requested bullets. Here’s a quick way to get the result. I wouldn’t use this very often, but I don’t need to use all of my work-arounds, though it helps. I set up a secondRead more
I would like to add a Hierarchy based function: BRANCH. That is, starting from a many tiered hierarchy and pulling out information needed, easily. I think I may have a work-around for this lack-of-feature, but I suspect it is prone to breaking by the end-user. It is also not fully tested and adds unnecessary* burden onRead more
Today’s Tip (2018-08-03): Based on this Community Post. The user wanted to sort a hierarchy, but only on the Parent Row. Here’s how: I created a column named [Sort Order]. I added this formula: =IF(COUNT(ANCESTORS()) = 0, [Primary Column]@row, COUNT(ANCESTORS())) to each cell. It checks if this is a Parent Row (COUNT(ANCESTORS()) = 0) andRead more
This post is different than my normal Smartsheet related posts. I’m going to try to put down my current thoughts on Smartsheet’s Templates and what’s missing for me. This post can not be all-inclusive, but I hope it helps me consolidate some of things that have been rattling around in my head for a while.Read more
This tip refers to Smartsheet, Google Chrome, and Windows (I’m on Win 10 as I write this) I found this tip recently as I was trying to figure out which Chrome tabs, of the many I had open, were causing my work (which I often do on the Internet) to slow down. I tend toRead more