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I love Smartsheet's features. When I left my corporate job to strike out as a freelancer, using Smartsheet as one of my primary management tools felt like a no-brainer.

Unfortunately there are some features I want to use (e.g., grouping on reports and sheet summaries) that are exclusive to the business plan, which has a minimum of 3 licenses.

I would be happy to pay the additional charge per year on my license for these Business features, but as a single-person operation, I can't justify paying for two extra licenses that I do not need, just to get these features.

I spoke with an account manager about this, but the only option was for me to pay for 3 licenses and not use two of them. I can't imagine I'm the only user who would love this option, so I'm hoping that Smartsheet will throw a bone to us extra-small businesses out here.

Cheers,

Justin

Please implement dark mode for Smartsheet. It is really difficult on our eyes to work on a white screen.

Sorry if this is already in the forum. I searched and did not see it submitted as an idea. It only comes up in other discussions.

Issue: When using copy to another sheet, the rows do not maintain their predecessor references.

Use Case: We utilize Control Center to provision our projects from a standard "PROJECT TEMPLATE". Each project has about 10 sheets and 10 reports. One of the sheets is a "WORK PLAN", which is a standard project schedule sheet (gantt chart). The "WORK PLAN" template in our "PROJECT TEMPLATE" has a very simple gantt schedule to seed the project. It does not work for most project. It would be too cumbersome to have a schedule in the template that covers every use case. Instead, we have a "SCHEDULE TEMPLATE SHEET" that has about 40 different project schedules (small project, multi phase, multi parcels, SD/DD/CD public work, hydrology projects, landscape projects, civil projects, etc) We would like to be able to highlight the rows we want in the "SCHEDULE TEMPLATE SHEET", and copy to the newly provisioned project "WORK PLAN". Unfortunately, when we do this, the predecessors are left blank in the "WORK PLAN". Some of our schedules have 100's of lines. We cannot simply do a save as from the "SCHEDULE TEMPLATE SHEET" and overwrite the new "WORK PLAN" because Control Center keeps track of each sheets unique identifier. This is necessary should we make system wide changes to our projects. I have also seen the work arounds others have posted (using excel, inserting rows to get then aligned between source and destination sheet, then copy paste just the predecessor info) Frankly, they are cludgy and prone to user error when deployed across multiple managers/teams.

Request: Include the predecessor row numbers (relative) when copy to another sheet. This feature works when copying within the same sheet. The predecessors will update relative to the new row numbers.

Workspace folders would definitely help me. As someone who creates workspaces for projects and across departments, my list is long.

We'd like the ability to create a Utilization Report that groups by Name and then shows the Project Allocation %. We have the ability to group by Team Member but we cannot "Then Group By" Project.

We'd like to see the percentage allocation as a report in Resource Management by the Resource Allocation Plan from SmartSheet. We have the ability to "Then group by" Discipline or Role but we need by Project. "First group by" also does not have Project as an option.

When you view People, on their display record it shows the individual utilization/allocation % but we'd like a bulk report for all the users

I agree this is a much-needed functionality. Many form builders have this out the box.

Like this:

~WORKSPACES (as it is called now)

>Department 1

>>Workspace 1

>>>Folders/Sheets/Reports/Dashboards

>>Workspace 2

>>>Folders/Sheets/Reports/Dashboards

>>Workspace 3

>>>Folders/Sheets/Reports/Dashboards

>Department 2

>>Workspace 2.1

>>>Folders/Sheets/Reports/Dashboards

>>Workspace 2.2

>+ More Departments & Workspaces w/ Folders/Sheets/Reports/Dashboards and so-on...

Sharing/Permissions could be grouped in a tree from the broader Department level to the specific Workspaces within a Department. Then, add the ability to group any of the workspaces that you belong to and organize them into folders inside your own Sheets folder. That'd be awesome!