If you have Bridge, what are you using it for?

Joe Goetschel

We just got Bridge, as I try and learn it, I am trying to think of all the use cases. Also, has anyone done anything with Bridge and Data Tables together?

Julie Fortney

Following. We are upgrading to Advance with our next renewal, and I am already building my Bridge wish list. 😃

Neil Watson

@Joe Goetschel great thread to start as I too am keen to learn how people are using Bridge.

I am only just beginning to use Bridge, a few use cases below:

• Since Smartsheet has no inherent way to filter on a dashboard, we have connected Smartsheet to PowerBI and have built dashboards in PBI with filters, complex charts etc. These PBI dashboards are in turn embedded in a Smartsheet dashboard for consistency. However, there are times when team members want to click on a link in PBI and be taken to the appropriate Smartsheet row/item. So I use Bridge to add a row link when a row is created in Smartsheet. That row link is then pulled into PBI so that users can click on the link which opens Smartsheet.
• I have used Bridge for daily "Today" updates as per this Help article
• I use Bridge to update dropdown columns as per this Help article, although I switch between Bridge and Data Shuttle when doing this (I find the latter is quicker to set up)
• Using Bridge for Row Autosort as per this Help article

I am not a programmer and don't have much knowledge around API usage etc. so a lot of trial & error and internet searching!

Joe Goetschel

@Neil Watson Thank you this was super helpful!

I have a lot of uses cases I plan to use Bridge for, but I need to learn how to use it first!

• I plan to link it to NetSuite to pull data into Smartsheet for bidirectional updates, (Netsuite isn't as user friendly as Smartsheet.)
• We are going to link in our Service Platform (MIS Service Pro) to be able to use Smartsheet to send notifications, as well as get all service-related items on customer dashboards
• Everything you stated above, I want to do :)
• I have to come up with a workaround to get data into data tables from other systems. This one will be complicated but I think I can take it into a sheet and trigger data shuttle to put into datatable and then delete the rows once complete? (Idea right now but I'll get there)