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Re: Saving a "Form" for later use without submitting as of yet
Hello,
We (Warner Brothers Discovery) need to be able to save a form submission midway through. Without this function, the form is basically useless for us because we want to be able to create a longer, more complicated form. It is very frustrating that this function does not exist since people have been asking for this for over five years. It is also frustrating that there is a Save option right below this, indicating that this is a feature that Smartsheets can create.
ElizabethSkeps
Re: Chart Labels: drag labels overlap & stacked column labels
I'm having this problem too and would love a solution to be implemented with the dashboard revisions this year.
LizTo
Re: Option to Not Include Sheet Link on Notifications
The one and only roadblock holding us back from going live with our sheet is the 'Go to Sheet' link on the automated notifications and updates sent by Smartsheet. We need to send approval requests, comments and attachments to outside parties without giving them access to the sheet itself.
BIG up vote for removing this feature!
seana
Allow folders to be added as pages in WorkApps
It would be helpful when we want to share stuff like archives of meeting agendas, instead of having to share each individual sheet.
lindsayjones
Re: October Question of the Month 💭 Join the conversation and receive a badge
Leaving the comfort of my career in secondary education as a teacher and diving into an entirely new career was a terrifying leap. The thought of abandoning the familiar routine and stepping into the unknown filled me with anxiety. But, as I took the plunge, I discovered personal growth, adaptability, and newfound strengths I never knew I possessed. Not to mention, the exposure to Smartsheet! It turned out to be one of the best decisions I ever made, leading me to a more fulfilling and exciting path in life, reminding me that sometimes the most frightening steps can be the most transformative and rewarding.
Stacy Gumula
New Badge Idea - Project Management Certification
Having reviews the badges area of the Community, there is only a badge celebrating the Core Certification exam. Please could we have badges to display for passing the Solutions Center Exam and the Project Management Exam too?
Debbie Sawyer
Re: Recover Deleted Rows
Smartsheet STILL does not have the ability to FULLY recover deleted rows. Sure, they may be able to send you an Excel style backup/snapshot, but you lose your: Cell history, conversation thread, attachment links, sheet links, formatting, etc etc etc. You 'might' get the raw cell contents back, but telling someone that a .csv is their only backup solution for their .xlsm is laughable.
The .csv is better than nothing, for sure, but after +7 years we really had hoped that a better solution - or heck even a genuine step in the direction of better data security - would be available. But... whatever.
As it stands, 7+ years on and fully, completely, and unequivocally aware, Smartsheet still has the behavior that if someone can edit a single cell within a row of a sheet - they can delete the entire row! And, they can delete it without even getting a pop-up message to ask them if they're sure they want to delete it! (which is funny, because if they try to unlock it they get a pop-up - but if they try to delete it, they succeed without even being questioned)
And, as if it being absurdly easy to lose data wasn’t enough of a kick in the pants, they also still don’t have a true backup option available. Meaning, if you lose a sheet/row/etc – all they can provide you with is a flat excel sheet with a pile of unlinked attachments. All cell history, formatting, links, etc are gone gone gone.
Feel free to review the following community posts, and then decide if you'd like to open an enhancement request on this 7+ year old issue.
Smartsheet: PLEASE do the following:
1. IMMEDIATELY (stop-gap) Implement a pop-up message whenever someone tries to delete a row. (this is already done for the 'unlock row' feature, and should be fast and easy enough to implement for 'delete row')
-zero impact on existing user rights
AND
2a. (solution) Implement a change to the software that will allow sheet owners to prohibit deleting any row that contains a locked cell/column.
OR
2b. (solution) Implement a new user level that is "Editor - safe" where the user has all the rights of an Editor but where the 'delete row' functionality is greyed out. (There is only one permission difference between 'Editor - cannot share' and 'Editor - can share', so the precedent is there.)
Here is my ongoing (and incomplete) list of how many times Smartsheet has ignored this problem:
June 2015
https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/rows-being-removed
August 2015
https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/revert-old-version-sheet
August 2015
https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/avoid-shared-person-delete-my-row
August 2015
https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/conditional-lock
August 2015
https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/find-deleated-items
October 2015
https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/retrieve-deleted-data
February 2016
March 2016
https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/prevent-deletion-rows-if-it-contains-locked-cells
May 2016
https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/allowing-team-members-update-smartsheet
June 2016
https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/prevent-deletion-rows-enhancement-request-again
June 2016
https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/delete-rows-employee-avoide-tasks-completion
June 2016
https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/deleted-rows-there-way-find-out-who
July 2016
https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/historychange-deleted-rows
October 2016
https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/block-rows-been-deleted-editor
February 2017
https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/admin-deleted-bucket
March 2017
https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/retrieving-lost-data
March 2017
https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/viewing-deleting-rows
June 2017
https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/web-form-submissions-disappearing
July 2017
https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/retaining-deleted-info
September 2017
January 2018
https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/adding-back-deleted-rows
March 2018
https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/overwritten-sheet#comment-67946
June 2018
https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/questions-new-user#comments
July 2018
https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/retrieve-deleted-sheets
November 2018
https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/activity-logrows-deleted#comment-124356
July 2019
https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/52766/deleted-content-in-a-row
July 2019
September 2020
May 2022
https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/90947/recover-deleted-rows
May 2022
June 2022
https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/91973/how-can-i-track-deleted-rows
Yes, Smartsheet, you still need to fix this PROBLEM, BAD DESIGN, FLAW!
Brad Jones
SharePoint embed in WorkApps
Please enable Smartsheet’s approved domain and add SharePoint to embed content for WorkApps.
AnneTyler
Re: Change Formatting in Reports
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.
Jared G
'Helper' Column Management via New Column Type (or Side Panel?)
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:
. . . [H]ow about adding a new panel to the right-side toolbar -- similar in function to the Sheet Summary panel -- to contain the helper formulas. Each row could look at the specific value for the helper formulas for that row.
Helper columns could be "moved" to this panel via a toggle in the context menu when right-clicking on the column header, similar to the Lock/Unlock Column toggle. Perhaps this option only appears if the column has a column formula.
Kevin M.