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
Updating a Sheet with new functionality takes time. This is true, despite what your supervisor may think. Updating 10 Sheets with the same functionality? More time. This post won’t show how to eliminate all of the time, but it should save some. A Simple Example I have a Project Master Sheet (I avoid using Smartsheet’sRead more
re: “I hate color”. No, not me. And I don’t mean complicated Conditional Formatting Rules like this: although I have thoughts on that too. But I did hear something very close to that sentiment when talking to a customer recently. And like most comments from customers, it got me thinking. (Note to self: That’s why theyRead more
Occasionally, I run across a requirement to show the tasks or dates from a project schedule in a more horizontal view. That is, take something like this: and display (and use) it like this: What is shown is a simple example, only four columns to move over or link to the second Sheet, but I’veRead 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
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
Anyone that uses Smartsheet should probably know that the user can send a row with a few clicks of the mouse and some typing. This will send the chosen user(s) an e-mail copy of the row(s). The e-mail provides a convenient link back to the sheet that contains the row. Unlike some of Smartsheet’s otherRead more
Because Smartsheet and other spreadsheets lend themselves to being used as task lists, a common request on the Smartsheet Community is how to “create recurring tasks in Smartsheet”. While on the surface, this seems to be a simple question, it isn’t. The answer isn’t simple either. We aren’t going to cover that bigger question here. OneRead more