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
Today I was trying to get some energy and motivation by perusing the Smartsheet Community and I ran across a question that helped with those. I will paraphrase the problem: A main task has a series of sub-tasks. The user want to check the status of each sub-task and return the status of the first non-completed taskRead more
It has been a long time coming. I wasn’t sure if it would. I wasn’t sure if it should. But it is here, so we better get ready. (Warning: Personally, I’m not fully ready yet. Every time I look at a Sheet or Report, my mind spins with redesign possibilities. Or maybe it’s the meds.Read more
Sometimes, all it takes is a talking out the problem. Or in this case, submitting a Smartsheet Enhancement Request. I wanted to do a Find & Replace All on some text. This isn’t it: but it demonstrates the problem. As an Admin, I can’t Replace All in hidden columns. So I whined and complained andRead more
Smartsheet allows the concept of working days, and by corollary non-working days (holidays, vacations, my birthday). This setting is on the sheet level, not for individual resources. A SysAdmin can set these working days for all new sheets, but not modify all existing ones at one go. On a sheet, when Project Dependencies are enabled, theseRead more
Today, I realized I had about two dozen sheets I wanted to remove from Smartsheet. Being me, I didn’t / couldn’t just hit the “delete” key, but the thought of converting them to Templates or exporting them one by one had my finger hovering over that key, slightly trembling (I exaggerate, but not by much).Read more
If you use Zapier for SaaS integration (there are good reasons to do so) and, like me, you occasionally need to check out a new integration, refresh the possibilities of ones you already use, or check out recent changes, it may help you to know about some short-cuts I use. Explore page The first isRead more
The Background If you are reading this, you probably have already read the manual, that is, the Smartsheet‘s Help articles on formulas. I keep this link book-marked: https://help.smartsheet.com/articles/775363-using-formulas I also use Wachete to monitor for changes. You can also access the help from within a Smartsheet using the Function icon This icon is also a convenient wayRead more
An Alternative to Nested IF’s Warning: It takes longer to explain the problem than it does to explain the solution. One of the common issues raised on the Smartsheet Community is problems dealing with NESTED IF’s. NESTED IF are a series of IF statements that are chained (nested) together. These are allowed and occur becauseRead more
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