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• Welcome Page for Admins

  For all those system admins out there. Here is a quick little helpful idea for you. Set up a welcome dashboard with helpful links and tips. Doing this has help reduce the amount of questions I get on …

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  Jun 6, 2023

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• Community Intro

  Hi everyone, my name is Melissa and I have been working with Smartsheet for about five years in the financial services industry. My expertise spans a wide range of Smartsheet functionalities, includin…

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  Jun 5, 2023

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• Smartsheet Introduction

  Hi everyone, My name is Regina and I work for a multi-hospital system in the great state of Georgia! My job title is Accreditation Specialist, so I work closely with our accrediting body and our staff…

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  Jun 5, 2023

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• May Question of the Month 💭 Join the conversation and receive a badge

  Hi everyone, We recently shared a Forbes article from our EVP of engineering, Praerit Garg that spoke about the big impact managers have on the performance and retention of their teams. In keeping wit…

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  Jun 5, 2023

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• New to Smartsheet Tips?

  Just started a new job. Company is new to smart sheet. Right now I work in data entry and basic automation. Eventually working towards full processes and product creation. Does anyone have any tips or…

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  Automations

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  May 25, 2023

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• Any ideas on automatically creating workscope packages base on changed rows?

  I have a large database that users can make changes to, those changes are then put into a workscope for processing. I don't think I want to use the highlight changes feature, because sometimes the cha…

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  Workflows in Smartsheet

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  May 24, 2023

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• Newish Community Member Intro

  Howdy Folks! My name is Christian, and although I've been here a year, I never introduced myself. I'm a Controls and Automation Engineer that uses SmartSheet for project management and time tracking. …

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  May 24, 2023

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• Critical sheet status

  Hello everyone. I have another personal best practice to share. I am sure like many of you there is a method to the madness. You have some absolutely critical sheets and if not kept within limits coul…

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  May 19, 2023

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• Onboarding Introduction

  Hi all, Running through my onboarding packet and made it to step #2! Woot-woot. My name is Roger, I am new to smartsheet but already creating sheets, reports, dashboards and have quite a few automatio…

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  May 18, 2023

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• New Community Member Intro

  I have been lurking for a while, simply reading all the help I can get in the community, and I thought it was time I introduced myself. My name is Sherry Barnes-Fox. I am a Project Analyst over at Med…

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  May 17, 2023

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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 lar…

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  Feb 27, 2025

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• Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) - Column Formula Configuration

  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 resul…

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  Formulas

  Project Management

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  Aug 22, 2024

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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…

  Sheets

  functionality

  Automations

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  Dec 13, 2024

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• Quick way to copy formulas across sheets I found

  Problem: I had the need to copy a list of 26 formulas to 56 sheets maintaining the formulas for each sheet. to increase the data collection across the sheets. All sheets have the same column names. Sm…

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  Jan 23, 2025

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• For Every one want to have More color symbol for health Status column.

  Dear Community Memebers, I saw many equations asking to have More color symbol for health Status column, so i added this post to be a simple reference to solve this issue and with your help and commen…

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  Aug 13, 2021

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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 bas…

  

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  DataMesh

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  Jan 14, 2025

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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, th…

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  Nov 15, 2024

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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…

  

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  Mar 27, 2025

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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 so…

  

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  Apr 4, 2025

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• URL Query String and CHAR() Function Helper Sheet

  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…

  

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  Sep 5, 2024

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