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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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Copying Rows and their attachments work around
Currently Smartsheet doesn't have the ability to copy rows including their attachments. I've found a workaround that is much quicker than uploading all the attachments individually on other rows. This is especially useful if you have MANY rows that you need to copy including their attachments. Save your sheet as a new…
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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 bulk create cross sheet references using Python and Smartsheet API
Hello, This post provides a solution for quickly adding cross sheet references to a large number of sheets. The cross sheet reference refers to a single column. Caution The API code can update any sheet where you have permission to create cross sheet references. There is no way to automatically remove or edit cross sheet…
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Month Name written as Text for Today's Date
what function return month name from date "i.e =TEXT(MONTH(TODAY()),"MMM")"?
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Power Automate - Post Attachments to Row/Sheet
Hello everyone! I spent WAY to long looking for this answer so I thought I would share it with the Community in hopes of helping someone else. Problem: Adding attachments to rows/sheet is not possible through the standard SmartSheet Connector Solution: This can only be done by creating a Custom Connector. It CANNOT be done…
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Auto-Create Child Rows WITHOUT Bridge or API
This initial solution is based on form submissions being made and each form submission triggering the creation of a set of "template" child rows per submission WITHOUT the need for a 3rd party app, the premium add-on Bridge, or the API. So if your form submissions look like this: Your working sheet could look like this:…
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Query Strings - Development
So I've developed several processes that fully rely on query strings for a variety of reasons, and many of my users find it difficult to reverse engineer my sheets to develop similar solutions, even with the official smartsheet help guide. I've made a fairly basic tutorial so I don't have to keep explaining it, and thought…
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Bridge: Create Workflow Schedule State Values
I was trying to use the Scheduling: Create Workflow Schedule module in Bridge to set up a 60-minute timer that would alert our team if another workflow didn’t complete within that window. I was struggling with how to pass and access state values between the workflows. After working with a Pro Desk support agent, we figured…
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Formulas for Calculating Time
I have decided to create a post that consolidates all of the different time based solutions that I have put together. Some of these solutions can be made more efficient or condensed into fewer but larger formulas. I am still going through these working on making them more efficient and tweaking them, but all of them have…
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Using OR with the CONTAINS function (-or- How to Hack the CONTAINS Function)
This one comes up a lot, so I thought I would provide a few ways to solve it. The question is this: can I use the OR function in the CONTAINS function? For instances, you want to see if a cell contains "apple", "banana", or "orange". In short, you can't use OR in the CONTAINS function (TLDR: because OR provides binary…