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Find & Replace
I did a search in the community posts, but was not able to find an answer to my question. Please forgive me if I somehow missed it. One of the features I sorely miss in Smartsheet versus Excel is "Find" and its companion "Find & Replace". I use them daily in Excel and while I know you can filter columns in Smartsheet, it…
Primary column
A new user is wanting me to verify that you cannot reassign the Primary column once your sheet it set up and saved. I'm pretty certain the answer is "no." Blessings, Loann
Dropdown List Multiselect Feature Request
I would like to submit a Smartsheet feature request that will allow users to do a "Multiselect" for a Column type of "Dropdown list". At the moment the only way I can do something similar is to create multiple checkbox columns, which makes the sheet hard to use due to all the extra columns. In Smartsheet today, you can…
Allocation of Resources by Hour
Scenario We have a smartsheet that tracks multiple projects (ROW) and we have resources allocated to one or many of these projects. In any given week, these resources are allocated on VARIABLE HOURS not %. Currently the smartsheet has % allocated for its Resoure Management View and it doesn't consider the HOURS (a total of…
Notifications by a specific change in a column
Hello, I found the method to setup notifications based on a specific column changing. We have a column with a "task assigned to" label. Is it possible to setup a notification to email only when a specific users name is selected? So I would only get emailed if "Andrew" were filled in that cell? Thanks, Andrew
Is there a way to count parents of a task?
Fill-down formula, while preserving formatting
Can this be done? How. Thank You.
Construction Commissioning Tracking?
Does anyone out there currently use Smartsheet to record and track Construction Commissioning? I'm looking for ideas/templates, etc to help improve the eficiency of our process which is currently to track Cx in Smartsheet and then export to Excel and reformat the data to be readable to the GC/customer. Especially when…
Smart sheets in Life Sciences
I'm thinking of streamlining the non conformance and capa tracking processes via smartsheets. I've some concerns and wonder if any other users have any observations.... 1) if I use web forms to capture a non conformance will this be compliant? I'm used to getting ink signatures even on the initial raising of a non…
WRAPPING TEXT IN A TASK CELL
How do I wrap text in a single cell where the cell width is too narrow for the length of the task description to fit in a single row?