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Community Category: Best Practice
Welcome to the Best Practice Category in Community! With so many great discussions happening we see incredible solutions being built out by our members. This category is a place to find creative solutions, tips and tricks, and best practices. The Smartsheet Community Team will collect nominated posts and put them here in…
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Sheet automation notification email tracking using a PowerAutomate Flow and Outlook
This post details how to track all sheet automation notifications emails. This solution is medium complexity and will likely require you to use an AI for some simple coding. Smartsheet allows users to automatically send email notifications from sheets. There are a few significant problems with these automated emails.…
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Combine emails into a multiple-contact column / multi-contact column
Multiple-contact columns can be problematic to use in Smartsheet. Namely, they cannot be "put together" with a formula. There's many use cases where you need to build multiple contacts into a cell based on criteria/lookups, but there isn't a way to do that in native core Smartsheet. There is, however, a couple of methods…
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When to use = and "" in COUNTIF formulas
I came across some weird COUNTIF functionality recently in one of my duplicate check column formulas. I wrote some exploratory formulas and wanted to share! Key Takeaways Numbers with leading 0s requires both = and "" Regular text requires "", but = is optional Regular numbers do not require = or "", but work with one or…
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Syntax: Add Row via API for Multi Select Contact Column, MULTI_CONTACT
Dropping this here in the hopes Google picks it up for future developers. At times when you cannot use the SDKs for adding rows via the API with multi-select contact columns (i.e. Bridge), the following body payload syntax is correct for posting new rows to a sheet. [ { "cells": [ { "columnId": 4532552246972292, "value":…
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Keeping Separators in Numbers When Joining / Concatenating
I have had quite a few use cases where I needed to use a formula to calculate an amount or amounts then join that amount into a text string, but when you do that, you lose your separators. If you want dollars, you also end up with no cents or single digit cents which can look a little wonky. The below formulas can…
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If are unable to login to Community due to Human Verification Failing (Cloudflare)
In our corporate environment on VPN, we cannot log into the Smartsheet Community Platform/Community Forums because the "Verifying that you are human" step fails. We get stuck on that screen indefinitely and I PROMISE I'm not a robot ;) (wink wink) If you're reading this and it happens to you, do this to get around it: Only…
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Replacing all special characters in form query string parameters with a formula
Hello everyone! I am excited to be speaking at the "Leveraging the Query String in Forms" session at Engage 23! I wanted to share a formula that a customer and I developed to replace any special characters that could show up in cell when you are building a URL to a form with query string parameters using a formula. This…
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Split Multiple Selections In Single Form Into Individual Rows (Core Product)
There have been a number of people asking how to make multiple selections in a single form and then have those selections broken down into individual rows, and the previous answer was always to use a 3rd party app, a premium add-on, or the API. Below is a set of detailed instructions on how to accomplish this within the…
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How to explain Smartsheet?!
Please check this video it can help you to position Smartsheet in your company all credits to . Cicero. The video is generated with GoogleNotebook its awesome i think. We explore why thousands of organizations trust Smartsheet to manage work smarter, not harder. 💡 Key Takeaways: Smartsheet goes beyond spreadsheets it…
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Pre-Filled Forms Using URL Queries: Tips and Tricks
Using URL queries to pre—fill forms seems to be catching on a bit more lately. There are a lot of resources out there, but they can be kind of spread out, so I figured I would start a thread that has some of the lessons learned, tips, and tricks that I have discovered along the way. Tip #1 [info callout] The first one that…