Project Management and Gantt Charts

Project Management and Gantt Charts

Create and work with a Gantt chart

When you switch your sheet or report to Gantt View, tasks appear as bars in a timeline....

Adjust the Gantt chart timeline

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

Modify Project Settings

Right-click any column header while in the Grid and Gantt views of your sheet and select Edit Project Settings....

Define working days, non-working days, and holidays on a project sheet

Here are a few things to keep in mind about non-working days and holidays in Smartsheet: If you are viewing your Gantt chart in days, non-working da...

Set baselines on a project sheet

​When you enable baselines, you can view the project baseline summary to see the overall project status....

Enable Dependencies and use Predecessors

Once you enable Dependencies, your sheet has the following functionality: Altering the start or end date on the predecessor immediately adjusts the ...

Project sheet columns: Start Date, End Date, Duration, % Complete and Predecessors

If you enable dependencies in the Start Date, End Date, Duration, % Complete, and Predecessors columns, you can't use formulas....

Create a milestone to mark a significant event in your project

A milestones is represented by a grey diamond image in the Gantt chart, centered on the provided start time....

Parent rollup functionality

The Start Date for a parent is the earliest start date from all of its child rows....

Track the critical path in a project

Your Critical Path is the longest distance between the start and the finish dates of your project, including all the tasks and their duration, which g...

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....