Allocations

Judi Le

Scenario 1

I have a task that happens every Tuesday but only takes 1hr of my time.

I don’t want to create multiple rows to indicate this as one 1hr of the day, is there another way to do this?

Scenario 2

I have task that happens with a span of 5 days but only takes 3 hrs how do i calculate that?

Is there a way to do this?

Shaine Greenwood

Hi Judi—

It sounds like you're looking for a automated, repeating tasks and a form of effort allocation, neither of which Smartsheet can do at the moment.

You will need to split your task up amongst multiple rows: setting up your one hour task manually every Tuesday, and setting up your 3 hour task in chunks over 5 days.

If you're using dependencies, you can make these tasks dependent on one another and use lag days to separate them:https://help.smartsheet.com/articles/765727-enabling-dependencies-using-predecessors#lagtime

You can also use hierarchy to organize your phases of a task under a parent:https://help.smartsheet.com/articles/504734-hierarchy-indenting-outdenting-rows