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Completely agree! Often the users who view reports need/want a different format from the folks managing the information in the sheets day to day. This would be a great feature.

Many of us, if not most, use one or more helper columns to achieve the Sheet functions that we need. Good practice is to hide the helper columns (when possible) so that the sheet user isn't bombarded with noise.

Unfortunately, hidden columns still appear while in Card View. My solution for this is to move all of the helper columns to the end of the sheet, add a new column to the right of the last column of relevance to the sheet user and populate it with "🛑 End of Card 🛑" or something similar. When scrolling down the card, the red stop sign emojis stand out and the user knows they don't need to scroll through the remaining n fields.

A new Column Type named "Helper" could solve this. It would be even better to build this in conjunction with a menu option to specifically Hide/Unhide Helper Columns.

Hidden columns of the Helper type would:

• not appear in Card View
• not appear in published versions of the sheet
• not appear in the column selection dropdowns for report and sheet filters OR,
• ...simply shove them to the bottom of these lists and denote their helper status somehow (Italics, perhaps?)

Hopefully, the community can help me fine-tune this feature request.

-Kevin

P.S. I thought of the "column type" solution while typing up another solution idea for this problem. If the above doesn't gain any traction, maybe this will:

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Hello,

It would be great to increase sheet and reports capacity.

20.000 rows or 500.000 cells it's not enough. I think it should be like 100.000 rows per sheet. I would like to use connector/bridge or data shuttle for larger data sets and not to think how to split sheets into many different archive files. It would be a great game changer for every advanced Smartsheet user.

The calendar app does not allow Sys Admins to transfer calendars to other users. When the owner of a calendar is terminated, there is no way to gain control of that asset, and it has to be rebuilt. Admins should be able to transfer calendars to any other user who is enabled for that premium app.

I want to send an update form that is customised like a standard row creation form. There are enough discussion topics with people asking for this or similar functionality. Please bump this up the to do list.

At the moment you only get the field description, no help text.

It is impossible to create multiline text entry boxes.

Make fields clearly read only when they are locked.

I have the same request, very much needed.