Hello, For a while now my teams have been missing a way to see their workload in the coming weeks. Taking screenshots of rm.smartsheet.com or giving them a licence to it are options, but it is either too manual or too costly for my taste. A more realistic alternative was to export reports from RM, reimport the files in…
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…
Greetings all, Because I grew tired of spending an inordinate amount of time piecing together URL query strings, I've compiled all of the UTF-8 character codes (that I came across) into an easy to use reference sheet. I've also added in a column for the corresponding CHAR() function codes and conditionally formatted the…
I have seen in the past quite a few people asking how we can leverage predecessors for alerts so that when (for example) the preceding task is complete, a notification goes out automatically to the owner of the next task letting them know it is ready to start. The best approach to this was unfortunately parsing out the…
Hello Everyone, Recently myself and two fellow Smartsheet Sales Engineers, @Lea Gikas and @Dave Stanley got together to create a WBS solution powered by Column Formulas. We wanted to provide the resulting configuration to the community in case some may find it helpful in executing project management solutions, this…
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.…
Hi, I am setting up our company landing Dashboard and am curious if there is a way to embed a quote of the day generator that posts a new quote to the dashboard everyday? Wondering if anyone has done this or done something similar.
Problem: When timestamps are imported into smartsheet, the timestamp must be imported as a text field to retain its time aspect. Although the timestamp can be separated into a Date field and a Time field, this separation of Date and Time makes arranging the sheet into timestamp chronological order difficult. Solution:…
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…
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…
Issue: Have you ever filled out a form and noticed that the submissions aren't showing up in the sheet where they should? This is a common problem, but there's a simple solution! Cause: This usually happens because rows with previous data in your sheet were cleared using the "backspace" key instead of using the "delete"…
When designing Smartsheet dashboards, accessibility should be a top priority. This is when Smartsheet Dashboard Color Themes come to action! No more picking random colors or spending painstaking amounts of time making sure the colors you want to use actually work together. Now you can access 9 different color themes…
I've seen a lot of posts with people trying to figure out how to parse out predecessors so that they can set the status of the next task to "Ready" or something similar. I came up with a solution that worked for me, I figured I'd share it. This solution takes care of the various dependency types and lead/lags. 1) Create an…
