Project Management and Gantt Charts

Project Management and Gantt Charts

Workload Tracking

Workload tracking sharing permissions

In order to use the workload tracking features, you must have a Smartsheet Business or Enterprise plan OR if you have a Resource Management plan, all ...

Workload tracking in Smartsheet

Workload tracking is available to users with a Smartsheet Business or Enterprise plan....

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

In your sheet summary: Add a Text/Number field at the top of your sheet summary with a description of the legend....

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....

Standardize sheet summaries across sheets

Use batch copy to help keep sheet summaries consistent across up to 20 sheets.

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....

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....

Gantt View: Modify project settings

The Resource Management section is only available with Business or Enterprise plans....

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

Non-Working Days entered manually must be updated in a sheet created from a template....

Set baselines on a project sheet

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

Gantt View: Activate Dependencies and use Predecessors

Use the Dependencies functionality in Smartsheet, to automatically calculate and adjust dates as values for Durat

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

Start Date, End Date, Duration, and % Complete for parent rowsThe Start Date for a parent is determined by the earliest start date among all of its ch...

Track the critical path in a project

As task dates or predecessor relationships change, this can impact the project's critical path....

Highlight the Driving Path of a Subtask

The driving path is based on predecessor relationships. You can enable it to quickly find tasks that encroach on a vital task’s start date....

Refine critical path with the summary path

The summary path helps you identify tasks that affect the end date of a parent task.