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Collections is ANOTHER step back for Smartsheet. Workapps are awesome. They have their own unique UI and URL that is role based and easy to maintain. Basically instead of sending any user to the Smartsheet home pages of hundreds of boxes or workspaces or have them save tons of bookmarks.

You simply just give them the URL to the Workapp.

I do not understand the changes of Smartsheet. Its like they are rolling back features trying to funnel everything to the workspace and directly to the underlying assets, in hopes to have more provisional memberships created to the underlying assets.

Collections is just a poor mans version of workapps. You basically have to create a collection within a workspace for each ROLE that you had in a workapp. So if you had 6 roles in a workapp you would have six collections within that workspace.

Having users in a file manger workspace UI versus the nice UI of a Workapp sucks. We beta tested some Collections of Workapps we have and not a single user likes it. At all. No idea who thought this would be better than workapps.

Collections and the new user subscription model and two huge negatives for us that we are finding alternate software for processes cause if we keep it in smartsheet it adds dozens of members.

I heard at Engage that Collections were going to replace Workapps - and I couldn't believe it… and now in the email announcement - it looks like it is true.

How is this going to be used for Portfolio Workapps? I was JUST getting this going so we have an easier way to share information with our clients.

I agree with @Cathy Salscheider about the need for clearer communication around this - especially since so many of us do not have access to it - even in the EAP because of the restrictions around it. There is no way I can put everyone in the EAP at my company - people already freak out about the little changes that happen that aren't announced.

Since this only available to the people who have opted in their whole org to EAP AND the people on the new subscription model starting in 2025… how is this being thoroughly beta tested?

EDIT: I just saw in the FAQ for the user subscription model and I quote: "Smartsheet Advance is not impacted by the new model at this time"

So for Smartsheet Advance users - how does this work? We have Advanced - and we still don't have Collections…

LOVE IT! Is dependency editing on the enhancement roadmap for table view?

I totally agree with every one in this comment session.
I still don't understand why such major update was made without previous notification, this is terrible, I never thought I would have to go through this with SmartSheet to be honest.

I haven't read any positive comment on this and still have not receive any oficial communication form the company as to what to expect, next steps or even a brief explanation as to how we can use this new update for a more positive and streamline process.

I think that what's more frustrating is that from one day to another one simple function such as folders is not available anymore and only the Workspace is. I think that it will be great if we could decide whether we want to crear a sheet or whatever under any folder but at the same time if we are ready to create a new workspace, well we could. But right now I can't even drag and drop content and this is very frustrating and I think that has made SmartSheet less capable of doing things in a very organize way (Which is always the way we determine personally based on our line of work) not SmartSheet dictating how we should work from now on.