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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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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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Formula To Indicate A Task Is Ready Because Predecessors Are Complete [Solution]
I have seen many posts about people wanting the ability to indicate a particular task/row is ready to begin because all of the predecessors are complete (many of them archived). All of the proposed solutions had short comings (e.g. only works on rows with a single FS predecessor with no lag). Here is my full solution to…
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Generate Docs - How to fix Font Size Issues - a guide
I'm was using Generate Form to create a PDF I needed. While I was getting the content I needed, the font size in the form was wonky and inconsistent. The first 3 fields were in LARGE FONT size while the rest were a standardized. I don't know why or how the this happened. I was able to find a solution after an hour + of…
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Use Javascript in Bridge to efficiently import data from an API
Hi all - I'm excited to share a custom Javascript solution with my fellow Bridge users. I am not a Jscript coder - all credit for this goes to the awesome @Nathan Lloyd at Smartsheet - Large Enterprise Technical Sales Engineer, who gave me the basis for this script at ENGAGE 2022. Thank you Nathan! In this thread I'll…
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INDEX and MATCH across two sheets: a detailed explanation
Hello everyone, would love some feedback on this tutorial. I was answering a user's question regarding INDEX and MATCH (thread post here), and thought it would be beneficial to share my example to the greater Smartsheet community of how to easily utilize INDEX and MATCH functions to reference cells from another sheet by…
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Importing excel spreadsheet that has long column names produces duplicate column error
Just thought I'd toss this little tidbit into the community in case someone else stumbles into this. I was trying to import and Excel sheet into SmartSheets and received and error indicating that the excel sheet could not be imported because it contained duplicate columns. Turned out that the reason SS thought it was a…
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Getting list of archived projects from Resource Management
Here is how you can currently get a list of archived projects from Resource Management. This solution does not explore Bridge or integrations using API. Resource Management does not allow you to export the archive status or archive date of a project This should be fixed. This could be possible this is possible through…
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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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TIP: How to reference a \ backslash or " double quotes in formulas + [ ] in Col Names
While researching a problem I had and the absolutely simple solution that was causing it, I decided I would write this post to help people in the future. This is not an official post, just me trying to give back to the community in hopes it helps someone, so if you have more info to add (or correct me) please post it…
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Smartsheet Bridge: Iterate over an array using JavaScript - Column names from a sheet
Here is the full solution for how to iterate over an array using JavaScript. Smartsheet provides a partial and incorrect solution at . Below is the actual solution. Using Bridge and JavaScript, this example extracts the list of column names from a sheet and provides them as the only elements in an array. The JavaScript…
