Project Management and Gantt Charts

Project Management and Gantt Charts

Create and work with a Gantt chart

Maximize the Gantt View when viewing or working on your project management tasks in a sheet or report....

Adjust the Gantt Chart Timeline

The Gantt chart has 4 timeline zoom levels: quarter, month, week and day....

Modify Project Settings

With sheet project settings, you can customize aspects of the sheet such as working and non-working time, Gantt display settings, and resource managem...

Define Working Days, Non-working Days, and Holidays on a Project Sheet

The sheet owner and collaborators with Admin access to a dependency-enabled project sheet can configure non-working days and holidays for the project,...

Set baselines on a project sheet

With baselines, you can establish the start, finish, and variance of dates for individual tasks and rows on your project sheet....

Enable Dependencies and Use Predecessors

You can use the Dependencies functionality in Smartsheet for automatic calculation and adjustment of dates as values for Duration (how long something ...

Project Sheet Columns: Start Date, End Date, Duration, % Complete and Predecessors

In a project sheet, you can enable automated dependency functionality in the following columns: Start and End Date Duration % Complete Predecesso...

Create a Milestone to Mark a Significant Event in Your Project

A milestone is an action or event marking a significant change or stage in your project....

Parent Rollup Functionality

When Dependencies are enabled on a project sheet, Parent Rows automatically roll-up information in several of the Project Sheet Columns....

Track the Critical Path in a Project

Track the key tasks in your project by setting it up to display the critical path....

Highlight the Driving Path of a Subtask

With driving path, you can see which other tasks (based on predecessor relationships) affect a task’s start date....

Highlight the summary path to identify tasks that affect the end date of a parent task

Enable the summary path on a collection of tasks to outline the subtasks that affect the completion date of their summary (parent) task....

Legacy Resource Management and allocation

Legacy Resource Management (RM) is no longer available for new users....

Legacy Resource Allocation with Project Resource View

Legacy Resource Management (RM) is no longer available for new users....

Sheet Summary

Define your work with sheet summary

Use the sheet summary pane to define, organize, and report information related to your work....

Provide Context to Symbols With a Sheet Summary Legend

Build a legend in the sheet summary to describe the meaning of each icon or symbol on your sheet....

Sheet summary tips and best practices

Take advantage of sheet summary to display overall project metrics, tag sheets with custom metadata for better search, and more....

Batch Copy to Standardize Sheet Summaries Across Sheets

Maintain consistency with your metadata and portfolio data by copying the sheet summary structure, formulas, and other content to up to 20 existing sh...

Calculate key project metrics with sheet summary formulas

Automatically calculate budget summaries, aggregate project status and project health, and more by placing formulas in sheet summary fields....