Automatic numbering for Work Breakdown Structure

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edited 09/22/22 inSmartsheet Basics

你好,

Does " Automatic numbering for Work Breakdown Structure " exist in SMARTSHEET ? It's been a couple of days now that I am searching for .

Can someone help me ?

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  • Alex Fedotov
    Alex Fedotov ✭
    edited 07/27/21 Answer ✓

    I started using Smartsheet and evaluating its capabilities only a week ago, but from the very start faced that nasty limitation. After spending some time, I managed to come up with a solution that supports an unlimited level of nesting. Hope it will be helpful for those hitting this page

    Create the following columns and formulas:

    1. Row number
      1. Requires a "Row ID" autoincrement column starting with 1
      2. Formula - - MATCH([Row ID]@row, [Row ID]:[Row ID], 0)
    2. Level
      1. Formula - COUNT(ANCESTORS())
    3. WBS Code
    4. 孩子指数
      1. Formula - COUNTIFS(Level:Level,[email protected], [Row number]:[Row number], AND(@cell <= [Row number]@row, @cell > [Parent row number]@row))
    5. Parent row number
      1. Formula - IF(ISBLANK(PARENT([Row number]@row)), 0, MATCH(PARENT([Row number]@row), [Row number]:[Row number], 0))
      2. Formula - IF(ISBLANK(PARENT()), 1, PARENT() + "." + [Child index]@row)
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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":"2023-06-28T12:22:00+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":45516,"lastUser":{"userID":45516,"name":"Paul Newcome","title":"","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Paul%20Newcome","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/userpics\/082\/nQPUTVFKKWDJ2.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-06-28T13:21:59+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭✭✭✭✭"},"pinned":false,"pinLocation":null,"closed":false,"sink":false,"countComments":3,"countViews":32,"score":null,"hot":3375851483,"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":382796,"name":"Re: Case sensitivity when using data mesh","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/comment\/382796#Comment_382796","dateInserted":"2023-06-28T12:22:00+00:00","insertUserID":45516,"insertUser":{"userID":45516,"name":"Paul Newcome","title":"","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Paul%20Newcome","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/userpics\/082\/nQPUTVFKKWDJ2.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-06-28T13:21:59+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":"

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