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how to lock the left panel in place?
Please make it a user preference to allow the left panel to lock in place with home displayed. It always collapses after opening a sheet and then it takes two clicks to get to home because it shows recent files as default, this is very annoying. Thanks.
Blackout Date Template
Does anyone have a good blackout date template I could borrow? Something that is easy on the eye when glancing at it? Thanks...
Can't build an alert - formula-based email not acceptable
Hello community! Anyone have a work-around for this? Here's the situation: I’ve created a vlookup formula in my sheet to obtain an email address from another sheet, and then want to alert someone using the email address result from the formula. When I go to build the condition in the alert (for approval), the alert will…
Black out dates in a form (date type column)
Hello, I have created a form and have a column named "Date Item is Needed" which is a date type column. However, the requestor needs to allow at least 10 days from the actual day. Is there a way to always black out those 10 first days? Thanks!
% plan vs %advanced
Hi community: How can I use %Plan vs %real (Advanced) in a Smart plan?
Conditional formatting to alternate shading of rows based on a field
I've created a sheet to track an IRB's review of projects. Each IRB committee member fills out a form as they review each project, then they use the sheet that's populated by the forms when they meet to review multiple projects. I want to make it easy for them to see at a glance what the responses were for each project,…
Add Live Reports / Dashboards to Slideshow
We have a TV in the office that cycles through slides with important dates, vacations, etc. I'm wondering if this could be done better with Smartsheet. I can create reports / dashboards with the necessary information, but where I am stuck is how to create a slideshow of this information. I'm assuming Google Slides or…
Custom Message (html) in Automated Workflow
I setup a number of workflows a couple months ago to kick of at the beginning of each month. I've got html within the custom message that worked great for the first couple months. When the notifications were kicked out yesterday, they all show the html tags within the email. Did something happen recently which no longer…
Remove Predecessor Link
I accidentally drug a line to link two tasks, they are not dependent on each other. How do I remove the predecessor line?
Jira Connected Sheet and Hierarchy re-arrangement
Hi- I have been doing some searching on the community and cannot find a clear reason or explanation as to how to to set up the "Optional: Define Row Groups" I cannot find any documentation or help videos on YouTube or the community that explains how this works. Here is a screenshot of my sample project Here is what each…

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Is there a way to have a form update existing information?
We are conducting an audit of our I-9s. In order to do so, we have pulled an active list of all of our employees (EEs). These EE names are already on the sheet. In order to effectively complete the audit, there are specific things we need to check for based on the expiration date of the I-9 document that we have on file.…
Pulling info from Reference Sheet based on Date
Hello, I am trying to pull the information I need based on a date on the referenced sheet. Without this criteria the formula works great. this one criteria is not working. I created a helper column on each sheet. on the reference sheet is a formula to calculate the month number for that row, and then on main sheet is a…
Need help with Data/Chart Widget
I am working on a dashboard with various data points and had zero issues until I started the most recent widget. I am pulling from a simple report that has a list of staff members and their assigned work spaces. I keep getting an error that says the data cannot be charted… What is the limitation here? I made 4 other…

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