A Countdown widget counts down to a date and time you set. Think of the days-to-go sign before an event, as flip tiles that tick live. You choose which units it shows, from months to seconds, its color, and what happens when it reaches zero.

Here is the test: is there one date everyone should see coming? If yes, add a Countdown. For the dates of many records, use a Calendar View widget. For the time of day in several places, use a World Clock widget.

Example: the Vendor risk overview counts down to the audit. The target is 1 November at 9:00 AM, the units are Days and Hours, the color is Red, and at zero the widget displays the text "Fieldwork has started".

The Countdown on the Vendor risk overview as red flip tiles reading 12 days and 6 hours to the audit.

The widget lands on the dashboard. Drag it by its handle to move it.

The General tab is the only tab. It holds the Heading section and the Settings section: Target Date, Target Time, Display Units, Countdown Color and Target Reach Style.

Title is the widget's name, prefilled with "Countdown". Description is a switch, off to start; on, it adds a text box and the choice As A Tooltip or Below The Title.

A date box with the placeholder "Type in or use a calendar" and a calendar icon. It is prefilled with tomorrow, and takes a typed date such as 10/31/2026. Its tooltip reads "Select the date you want to count down to". The calendar shows the weekday and date in its header, month and year navigation, the day grid with today ringed, and Cancel and Done.

A time box in the form HH:MM AM/PM, 12:00 AM to start. Its clock icon opens a list in 15-minute steps. The tooltip reads "Choose the time of day you want the count down to". The date and time are read in your profile's time zone; the modal shows no zone control or helper line.

Six checkboxes: Months, Weeks, Days, Hours, Minutes and Seconds. Days, Hours, Minutes and Seconds are on to start; Months and Weeks are off. The tooltip reads "Select the units of time you would like to display." The overview shows Days and Hours only.

A named-color list with a search box: Blue, Light Blue, Green, Red, Orange, Yellow, Purple, Pink, Teal and Grey, then the same ten as "(Washed)". Green is chosen to start. A color-picker button beside the list takes a custom color.

What happens at zero: Fireworks, Display Text or Do Nothing. Fireworks is chosen to start. The tooltip reads "Specify what happens when your countdown is complete." Display Text adds a text box with the placeholder "Enter a text to display". The overview's text reads "Fieldwork has started".

The General tab with the six unit checkboxes, the Countdown Color list open and Target Reach Style set to Display Text.

Solution Managers and members with Full Access add and change widgets on a public dashboard. The owner does so on a private one. Every member who can open the dashboard sees the countdown. See Dashboard Settings. A shared read-only page shows it too; see Public Dashboard Sharing.

In View mode the widget shows flip tiles in the chosen color, one per unit, with a caption under each, counting live. At zero the fireworks play, your text shows, or nothing happens, as you chose. A Filter widget and a Record Selector do not change a Countdown. It holds no records.

The widget shows in the SmartSuite mobile app for iOS and Android.

In Edit mode, hover over the widget and select Edit in the strip that appears above it. The modal reopens; change the date, the time, the units, the color or the end style, then select Save Changes at the foot. Cancel after a change asks "Are you sure you want to exit without saving the changes you made?", with Exit Without Saving and Save Changes. The strip's More Options menu holds Minimize, Highlight Color, Duplicate Widget, Delete Widget and Collapsed by Default; see Managing Widgets.

Last verified 30 Oct 2026.