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Comments not in correct order when sending a Row via Email
Hi, In our company we frequently use the 'send row' function to update stakeholders. We now have observed a few times that the comments are not listed in an ascending or descending order in the email. The order of the comments is different from the order on smartsheet. The most recent comment is sometimes not listed on the…
Auto Fill Values based on existing values
In Excel, if you have a column that has say values such as "CAT", "HAT", "MAT"... If I am going down row-by-row and start typing "M" then this prompts you with the option of hitting enter or click to choose the work "MAT" as this already exists as a value in the column Does anything like this exist within SS?
Cards - Can we have support fro split columns
I was watching a video the other day on Microsoft Azure (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/videos/242/). There they detailed the ability to have split columns under a single swimlane header. This allows you to further sub-divide the tasks within a category. Is this supported in SS? If not can it be as this would…
Cannot delete more than 5 Columns at a time
why cant I delete more than 5 Columns at a time? seems rather a silly restriction to have in-place?
Scheduled export of sheets
Hi there. I'd love to see a feature implemented whereby a scheduled export of sheets could be set up. I'm thinking in particular about project plans but this could apply to any sheets. We have a team subscription but we don't need to set weekly backups of entire workspaces, but I would love to be able to set certain sheets…
Copying numbers inserted by Auto-Number
I want to be able to copy the numbers inserted by Auto-Number. I use them to create a control number for each row/record, which I want to then place in external systems for correlating notes and files. However, the numbers inserted by Auto-Number don't seem to lend themselves to being copied once they've been created. I…
Triggering an email when a subset of tasks are complete.
I have a parent task and 3 subtasks. When the Done checkbox is checked on the three subtasks I would like to send an email. How can I trigger this email?
¿Automatically sum up child values into Parent Cell?
I'm looking for a solution to automatically sum up child values for selected numeric columns. There is a workaround that is to use sum(children()) formula, but I dont want to write the formula every time I add Parent rows. Any ideas? Thank you.
Select predecessors
Hello, I would like to find a way to select rows that are predecessors to an other row. I want to to do this in order to create a notifications that sends an email to the person in charge of a task, when the predecessors tasks are finished, so he knows he has to get to work on this task. Thank you, Sebastien
Workaround for Editing a Report Without Full Access
Hi, I have a crucial missing piece to a workflow of mine which would allow my customers to edit my Smartsheet Reports in order to make their "selections" on my products. The issue I'm having is that I cannot share the sheets associated with my reports with my customers because there is information on those sheets that I…