Hi Friends,
I am new to smartsheet, please be aware of that, likely some of my struggles are obsolete but I just have no idea.
Problem Statement:
On global business level, we created a form for employees to forward improvement Ideas to a specific team that will execute them (or not). The form entries are logged in a smartsheet with columns for each data entry in the form. Here a sample screenshot. I call it MASTER
One of the columns, namely SITE, specifies, for which local business an entry is relevant. Lets call my relevant entries mysite.
What I dream of:
I want to evaluate mysite entries based on local business criteria (so I cannot add evaluation criteria to the MASTER file, as this is a global source sheet)
(8 criteria categories, each category has a number value and the sum of all yields a final score).
Ideally I have an evaluation tool/form with mysite MASTER entries ready to be evaluated. In my head that was a CHILD sheet with copied entries from MASTER with extra pre-formatted columns for evaluation criteria and score, but so far no success.
What I tried and where I struggled:
- Copy row workflow (MASTER sheet to CHILD sheet)
- This resulted in several entries being double. When a change is made in MASTER, the change triggers a new entry in CHILD and not changing the specific cells that changed --> i call it a changelog file and this is not what I wanted. I wanted to see what basically is the MASTER with mysite filter permanent, but as a CHILD sheet to work with
- When I trigger only with new row added, I cannot follow up with changes made in an entry in MASTER
- changes made in CHILD are not added to MASTER
- Report
- I was successful in creating a report for mysite entries only but I cannot add columns to a report. Thus I cannot create a set of evaluation columns
- I cannot feed the report into a new smartsheet/form that would be the base for my evaluation
If anyone has an idea how to do this, I'd be very happy. I am reaching a brick wall here.
Best
Willy
