Hi All. Here is my use case: we are using Smartsheet as our activity planning calendar for a team of dozen people. We have focus periods lasting from few weeks up to one month. We would like to communicate that e.g. May 1 to May 23 is time for Focus Area#1, and from May 24 to June 16 for Focus Area #2, and so on.
Is there a way to set these Focus Areas visible on the Calendar View by editing the day-level background colour on the Calendar View (like now the days of the current month have a white background, the days of the previous or next month have a grey background)?
It's not possible to change the background colour of the days, but you can set the Taskbar colour (manually or via conditional formatting) which will determine the colour of the task itself on the calendar.
The image below should provide an indication of what to expect.
If you want a clue as to how I created the Parent level tasks, I provided an explanation here:
I understand. Unfortunately, there is no other option that I see. One thing to make it easier for you to add the name is to have a helper column in the source sheet with a formula to identify duplicates. If there is a record with no duplicate (i.e., a new name added), you can get notified through a workflow and use that to add the name to your metric sheet.<\/p>"}]}},"status":{"statusID":3,"name":"Accepted","state":"closed","recordType":"discussion","recordSubType":"question"},"bookmarked":false,"unread":false,"category":{"categoryID":321,"name":"Smartsheet Basics","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/smartsheet-basics%2B","allowedDiscussionTypes":[]},"reactions":[{"tagID":3,"urlcode":"Promote","name":"Promote","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":5,"count":0},{"tagID":5,"urlcode":"Insightful","name":"Insightful","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0},{"tagID":11,"urlcode":"Up","name":"Vote Up","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0},{"tagID":13,"urlcode":"Awesome","name":"Awesome","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0}],"tags":[]},{"discussionID":106975,"type":"question","name":"Case sensitivity when using data mesh","excerpt":"I set up a Data Mesh that is working quite well. Nurses enter their credential information and we use DataMesh to add other human resources information of record - including manager's email. The DataMesh is keying of of the common field of User ID. We noticed that for many of the nurses the match didn't work and also…","snippet":"I set up a Data Mesh that is working quite well. Nurses enter their credential information and we use DataMesh to add other human resources information of record - including…","categoryID":343,"dateInserted":"2023-06-27T19:39:23+00:00","dateUpdated":null,"dateLastComment":"2023-06-27T20:09:07+00:00","insertUserID":114017,"insertUser":{"userID":114017,"name":"Jacqueline Ennis","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Jacqueline%20Ennis","photoUrl":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a\/AGNmyxZA0IOt6rrnETj3_ATzn0g7JjbJTEyOyIfrNKKb=s96-c","dateLastActive":"2023-06-27T20:08:06+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭"},"updateUserID":null,"lastUserID":114017,"lastUser":{"userID":114017,"name":"Jacqueline Ennis","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Jacqueline%20Ennis","photoUrl":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a\/AGNmyxZA0IOt6rrnETj3_ATzn0g7JjbJTEyOyIfrNKKb=s96-c","dateLastActive":"2023-06-27T20:08:06+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭"},"pinned":false,"pinLocation":null,"closed":false,"sink":false,"countComments":3,"countViews":21,"score":null,"hot":3375793110,"url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/106975\/case-sensitivity-when-using-data-mesh","canonicalUrl":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/106975\/case-sensitivity-when-using-data-mesh","format":"Rich","lastPost":{"discussionID":106975,"commentID":382692,"name":"Re: Case sensitivity when using data mesh","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/comment\/382692#Comment_382692","dateInserted":"2023-06-27T20:09:07+00:00","insertUserID":114017,"insertUser":{"userID":114017,"name":"Jacqueline Ennis","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Jacqueline%20Ennis","photoUrl":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a\/AGNmyxZA0IOt6rrnETj3_ATzn0g7JjbJTEyOyIfrNKKb=s96-c","dateLastActive":"2023-06-27T20:08:06+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭"}},"breadcrumbs":[{"name":"Home","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/"},{"name":"Using Smartsheet","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/using-smartsheet"},{"name":"Add Ons and Integrations","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/apps-and-integrations"}],"groupID":null,"statusID":3,"attributes":{"question":{"status":"accepted","dateAccepted":"2023-06-27T20:09:23+00:00","dateAnswered":"2023-06-27T20:09:03+00:00","acceptedAnswers":[{"commentID":382691,"body":"
Perfect. Thank you so much!<\/p>"}]}},"status":{"statusID":3,"name":"Accepted","state":"closed","recordType":"discussion","recordSubType":"question"},"bookmarked":false,"unread":false,"category":{"categoryID":343,"name":"Add Ons and Integrations","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/apps-and-integrations","allowedDiscussionTypes":[]},"reactions":[{"tagID":3,"urlcode":"Promote","name":"Promote","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":5,"count":0},{"tagID":5,"urlcode":"Insightful","name":"Insightful","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0},{"tagID":11,"urlcode":"Up","name":"Vote Up","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0},{"tagID":13,"urlcode":"Awesome","name":"Awesome","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0}],"tags":[]},{"discussionID":106958,"type":"question","name":"Datamesh very slow to update","excerpt":"Hi, we have datamesh set to immediate but it still takes up to a minute for the data to be pulled into the sheet. Is this the normal amount of time it's supposed to take? Or have I missed a trick?","snippet":"Hi, we have datamesh set to immediate but it still takes up to a minute for the data to be pulled into the sheet. Is this the normal amount of time it's supposed to take? Or have…","categoryID":321,"dateInserted":"2023-06-27T15:05:03+00:00","dateUpdated":null,"dateLastComment":"2023-06-27T21:09:27+00:00","insertUserID":161700,"insertUser":{"userID":161700,"name":"Jagdeep","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Jagdeep","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/defaultavatar\/nWRMFRX6I99I6.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-06-27T21:01:40+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭"},"updateUserID":null,"lastUserID":15741,"lastUser":{"userID":15741,"name":"ker9","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/ker9","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/defaultavatar\/nWRMFRX6I99I6.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-06-27T21:07:50+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭✭✭✭✭"},"pinned":false,"pinLocation":null,"closed":false,"sink":false,"countComments":3,"countViews":26,"score":null,"hot":3375780270,"url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/106958\/datamesh-very-slow-to-update","canonicalUrl":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/106958\/datamesh-very-slow-to-update","format":"Rich","tagIDs":[219,334,381],"lastPost":{"discussionID":106958,"commentID":382703,"name":"Re: Datamesh very slow to update","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/comment\/382703#Comment_382703","dateInserted":"2023-06-27T21:09:27+00:00","insertUserID":15741,"insertUser":{"userID":15741,"name":"ker9","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/ker9","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/defaultavatar\/nWRMFRX6I99I6.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-06-27T21:07:50+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭✭✭✭✭"}},"breadcrumbs":[{"name":"Home","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/"},{"name":"Using Smartsheet","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/using-smartsheet"},{"name":"Smartsheet Basics","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/smartsheet-basics%2B"}],"groupID":null,"statusID":3,"attributes":{"question":{"status":"accepted","dateAccepted":"2023-06-27T21:04:31+00:00","dateAnswered":"2023-06-27T19:57:59+00:00","acceptedAnswers":[{"commentID":382687,"body":"