Workflow Administration in Control Center Global Updates

Sing C

I would love to see the ability to create, update, and administer workflows in Control Center provisioned projects. A few use cases:

1. We recently completed our implementation of Control Center and migrated our live projects into the new framework. Some of the blueprint templates have alerts configured and it would have been hugely powerful to have a mechanism to deactivate them in the template, provision the ~100 projects we have, migrated the data (which would lead to some workflows triggering if they were enabled), then do a wholesale reactivation of the workflows. We made a decision after our data migration to deactivate some of the workflows (due to the volume of notifications being generated to shared sheet users) and we had to go into the sheets whose workflows we wanted to disable and do them one workflow at a time across ~100 projects.
2. This ability to deactivate and activate workflows across the system would be beneficial in the day-to-day operational environment as well.
3. Would be great to be able to create a new workflow in a blueprint template (or edit an existing workflow) and use Global Updates to cascade that to live projects.

Joe Goetschel

This is big, we can have about 1000 open jobs at 1 time, If a change needs to happen on all projects at an automation level, we will lose days to update it. This is a must!

Chizu Hieida

THIS IS A MUST!!!!!!! This will save many manual hours - especially our producers/managers starting to utilize more workflow. Currently we will need a lot of manual hours to push these to all current project sheets which we don't have a time for!!!

PeggyLang

AGREED - A MUST !!!!!!

Jack Rafalski

That this isn't in SCC as basic functionality is hard to express with words alone. 😣 So much time wasted even creating a basic 2 action approval workflow multiplied by dozens or hundreds of sheets like others mentioned.

If we could even update/match existing project sheets to include any automations added on the respective template, that would be incredible.

Is there any who may has heard about this on the roadmap?

Joe Goetschel

Hoping this is getting added to the road map soon

brianschmidt

I could not agree more. I can't tell you how many times it has baffled me that this is not already a part of the global updates function in control center. I know I would be able to take back soooo many hours or tedious setting up of identical workflows in sheets that already match the template.

MOC

Has there been any movement on this? This would be a HUGE improvement!

PSHW

Hi Smartsheet, it would be incredibly helpful if I could manage sheet automation through global updates. Is this on your to-do list?

tyler.wittmann

This would be such a great improvement! My team and I have wasted so much time creating and updating workflow automations manually for over 90 active projects. This would allow us to streamline these updates in bulk as our project load will only grow

Mike Ferringer

Agree 500% on this one! I've got 500 sheets to update individually for a simple automation addition to a blueprint!

Kelly Ospina

Yes, yes, and YES PLEASE! We need this!

Joe Goetschel

How could this not be part of your plan? The end goal should be anything you can do in a sheet should be allowed in a global update.

Anything less means scalability is at risk.

Steph Quijano

Up on this! Hope this will be addressed. Global updates for new workflow automation. It's so time consuming to set-up new automation for over a thousand projects.

Salèha El D.

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/108116/automation-included-into-global-updates

Agree, this would help a lot!

Steph Quijano

Totally agree! This is a MUST! Updating or creating new automation with thousands of projects is really a hassle. Hope this will be done via global updates.