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Dashboard Rich Text Widget Excessive Vertical Scroll Bar
Is anyone else's rich text widget have excessive amount of vertical scroll bar action? My OCD always tries to prevent users having to scroll vertically. I have used Smartsheet for over 7 years and never had such excessive white space in my widgets despite trying to expand the widget that should definitely prevent vertical scrolling. Does anyone have any reason this would be happening or solution on how to prevent this?
Re: adding pulldown items
The 'Assigned To' column in Smartsheet is a special "Contact List" type — not a regular dropdown field.
In Contact List columns:
- You don’t pre-fill a huge list of people manually inside the dropdown.
- Smartsheet auto-learns who gets assigned over time.
- Default allowed contacts can be limited by the sheet's "Available Contacts List" or workspace permissions.
- If your sheet is not set up with a predefined contact list, it can "store" only a small number of manually entered names (often 6 or 7) before starting to replace them dynamically.
This "auto-replace" behavior is standard Smartsheet behavior for Contact List columns without a properly configured Contacts List.
Paul.Woodward
How do you apply text wrap to the sheet name column in a report?
Since this is not a column from the underlying sheets, but rather a system-generated field, is there a way to apply text wrap to this column in a report?
Chelsea.McCulley
Re: Dynamic View - Visibility of Attachments & Comments
I'd like to add my support for improving attachment and comment viewing in Dynamic View. At present, the limited ability to interact with attachments is causing real frustration for users who expect a more streamlined experience. Not being able to preview files, or track changes at a glance is making processes slower and more cumbersome than they should be.
Adding to the challenge, the shift to Dynamic View has come with an increase in cost, yet a decrease in some functionality compared to working directly within sheets. This makes it a very difficult sell internally and to clients, especially when we've already advocated for and invested heavily in Smartsheet adoption across the organisation.
In environments where security, efficiency, and version control are critical, the current limitations force unnecessary workarounds and undermine the value Dynamic View should bring. Enhancing attachment handling — with features like inline previews, and visual update indicators — would make a major difference in usability and overall confidence in the platform.
Likewise the recent addition of created time and date columns in Dynamic Views are pretty much unworkable due to how the data is displayed. This add-on needs a lot of development to fulfil its offer to smartsheet users.
B.Wats
Re: Dynamic View - Visibility of Attachments & Comments
Much needed as otherwise Dynamic view is unusable for many processes.
B.Wats
Re: Dynamic View - Visibility of Attachments & Comments
We have the same issue, Attachments are saved every time instead of option for a preview.
Scott Frajerman
Re: How do I set-up a template?
Hi,
I hope you're well and safe!
If you add assets together in a Workspace or Folder and then use the 'Save as new' feature, you can use the chart as a template.
There are many tutorials and educational materials. Here are some resources.
https://smartu.smartsheet.com/
I hope that helps!
Be safe, and have a fantastic day!
Best,
Andrée Starå | Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD
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Andrée Starå
Reports to include Parent Rows
I figured a way to do this with a helper column but it is a tedious work around. I have to send out regular reports that require me to adjust the filter in a report every time.
mgress_kinetix
Ability to select standard or alternate sheet access and published items reports
According to the following article, two types of sheet access and published items reports exist, but only one option is available for a given plan with no ability to select which one. Given the alternate versions give more usable information for working with the Smartsheet API, system admins should have the option to run either report type regardless of the number of assets in a plan.
https://help.smartsheet.com/articles/2483064-sheet-access-published-items-report#:~:text=The%20standard%20version%20of%20the,sheets%20with%20the%20same%20name.
Philip Robbins
Re: Dynamic View - Visibility of Attachments & Comments
I am in the works of launching a new process where the Mobile App experience is not functional. We are using WorkApps and Dynamic View, but having the Mobile App installed on the devices is routing users to that UX and proving unable to view/download the attachments. So we've had to recommend removing the app from the device and use the web client. This is unfortunate as there are some benefits to the Mobile App and if there are other processes dependent on the Mobile App, then the route we're taking here would negatively impact that process.
As a Dynamic View user (either in a WorkApp or standalone Dynamic View), I want to be able to select an attachment from the Display pane, view it (ideally on/in a new tab), in order to execute my business process.
Jake Gustafson