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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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Lock or Store Date/Value Solution without using Zapier
Hi all, I hope you're well and safe! I've developed a solution that lets you store the date or value. You'd use the copy-row automation and a VLOOKUP or combination of INDEX/MATCH to make it work. We'd trigger the copy-row to another sheet and get the created date/other value and then use the VLOOKUP/INDEX/MATCH to get it…
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Bridge - Copy all attachment names to another sheet & get data from an array with a Child Workflow
This solution copies all attachment names from a source row and adds one row for each attachment name onto a target sheet. Each target row contains one attachment name and the source row primary key. The solution uses a Child Workflow to get individual data values from an array in the Parent Workflow. The solution is very…
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Daily Update Solution without the need to open the sheet, use Zapier, or similar
Hi everyone, Happy New Year! I hope you're well and safe! I've developed a way to use the newly released Record a date feature to update sheets with today's date automatically without the need to open it or similar. 1. Add a so-called helper column. (Date). We can call it Today Helper and add a date before the current day.…
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Scheduling automatic reminders for Proof reviewers
Here is a way to create reminders for Proof reviewers. This solution will: Send a reminder 5 days after the initial invite, if no one has responded to a Proof review request. Send a reminder 5 days after the last reminder, if no one has responded to a Proof review. Reset when a new Proof version is created. Some useful…
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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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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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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 I calculate HH:mm
Here's how I figured out HH:mm. I welcome all simplification suggestions. The combined formula in A38 is this monstrosity (but it works): =IFERROR(IF(INT(SUMIFS({Duration}, {CURWK}, 1, {Event Type}, A$37) / 60) < 10, "0" + INT(SUMIFS({Duration}, {CURWK}, 1, {Event Type}, A$37) / 60), INT(SUMIFS({Duration}, {CURWK}, 1,…
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Using DataMesh to Split One Line Onto Multiple Lines (for Forms Entries and Other Uses)
This is a problem I've heard a few times so I'm answering it in a separate post for reference in long form. I'm using the example from @WtaylorW's question over here. The basic need is to take one line and split it onto multiple lines. In this example you have a form that's inputting multiple names in different columns,…
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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…