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This Help Article appears in the Smartsheet Advanced learning track. Get the most out of this learning track by starting at the beginning.
This Help Article appears in the Smartsheet Advanced learning track. Get the most out of this learning track by starting at the beginning.
Track the key tasks in your project by setting it up to display the critical path. As task dates or predecessor relationships change, this can impact the project's critical path. Smartsheet will update automatically and always highlight the tasks on the current critical path.
Your Critical Path is the longest distance between the start and the finish of your project, including all the tasks and their duration, which gives you a clear picture of the project’s actual schedule.
TIP: After you’ve set up the critical path using the steps below, you’ll be able to apply a filter to your sheet to only display tasks in the critical path. Information on how to filter on your project’s critical path tasks can be found in Using Filters to Show or Hide Sheet Data.
Permission Requirements
You must be the sheet Owner or have Admin-level sharing permissions on the sheet in order to enable dependencies when setting up a sheet to display critical path.
Anyone shared to the sheet with Editor or higher-level permissions can choose to display or hide the critical path.
To use critical path, your sheet must be in Gantt View. (You can switch to Gantt View using the top toolbar.)
All tasks and milestones that make up the project's critical path will be highlighted in red in the Gantt chart.