November Question of the Month 💭 Join the conversation and receive a badge

Rebeca S.

Hi everyone,

In the October question we asked you to share something that scared you until you tried it, and you inspired us with your stories of courage. From career changes, and parenthood, to solo traveling, and jumping into a cenote — You’re incredible! 

Now it’s time for a new question & opportunity to earn badges and points while getting to know your peers.

What Smartsheet feature are you thankful for most?

Get into the spirit of the season by sharing the features that inspire you, make your life easier, or take your work to the next level. Drop your answer in the comments below. ⬇️

About Question of the Month:

We kick off each month with a new question. These monthly ice breakers are just one way to help you get to know your Smartsheet peers and rack up some badges and points in the process.

Everyone who participates by answering the question prior to the end of the month will automatically receive a unique participant badge once the question closes at the end of the month.

In addition to the participant badge, the top three answers based on Community member votes will receive the Top Answer badge. To vote on an answer click on the upvote icon associated with an answer in the comments below. Multiple votes allowed and encouraged!

KMueller

So thankful for Dashboards! The ability to visualize the data we use every day has really built support from our executive team. They are able to quickly understand the pictures we paint with this data and have fully backed rolling out Smartsheet use cases across the organization after seeing more of its potential.

Will Duplex

I'm thankful for being able to create Dashboards. Being able to easily disseminate information visually at a high-level has benefitted my team and pyramid when it comes to tracking data, financials, and project work.

Maxwell Griffith

I am most thankful for reports. The easiest way for me to work with real-time data that are being referenced from a slew of sheets. The ease of seeing all the data served in one single view is extremely helpful when I need to report (no pun-intended) on projects that don't have one source of truth sheet.

I ❤️ reports and most importantly I ❤️ Smartsheet for offering this feature.

Randall Alberts CBRE

I am thankful for the ability to add files to a row in a sheet. This helps to provide backup information to information entered. In the past we would have to go to SharePoint to find the information, but since being able to add to a row, this has been a large timesaver and allows everyone to see where the data comes from.

khickman

I am thankful for the Smartsheet's Help & Learning section. Whenever I'm stuck, I know I can go hear and find what I'm looking for. Also thankful for Smartsheet investing in tools like Help & Learning, the community, and certifications to grow our knowledge and keep us connected as a community.

Deowens

I am most thankful for the automation feature.

Phillip Cullum

I am currently all for Dashboards and the ease of creating them, but I am also digging WorkApps. Being able to make excellent dashboards to tell the story of your data is a gift. Presenting dozens to hundreds of lines of significant data in a spreadsheet is OK, but being able to mine the data into an easily and quickly presentable visual aid to tell the story to a viewer is priceless. No dashboard for your data is like sending a long email. You will lose the user after 3 or 4 lines.

Susan Ross

I am thankful for Smartsheet's collaborative features. If I'm stuck, someone else always comes up with great ideas to move toward a solution or improvement.

Janelle

This is a tough question. When I think of all the great timesaving aspects of Smartsheet, the one thing that stands out is sharing. It's great to gather information, but if can't share it with other, it doesn't do me any good.

Cassi

Can I say EVERYTHING? I love the functions in forms and reports that can be meshed with dashboards! The community is something that drew me deeper into understanding this program. I love collaborating with everyone and learning from each other!

nfatolitis

FORMS

Yes i love the collaboration, the ease of use, the dashboards, the easy conditional formatting, Reports, all the formulas, and of course the community. But the ability to create forms to collect targeted data from submitters with the ability to incorporate it into our sheets was one of my first loves of Smartsheet

Also, not to mention, all the supporters and content creators. I have used other large products and i find it harder to locate valuable user driven responses from the other products. With many other products you can find articles with a bunch of responses that say "me too" or "same issue here". The Smartsheet community has a lot of active ideas from fellow users. Smartsheet does it well, and there is a ton of quality info to consume.

asparrow111346

I am thankful for reports and being able to have automation set up to move rows to another sheet. The reports help me provide views for other stakeholders who do not need to see the entire dataset. It saves me time by not having to input the same info in multiple places and allows them to have real time access to the information they need. I love that my "completed" rows automatically move to another sheet so I can see progress in my sheet (by the row being removed) plus it allows me to maintain the historical information. 😍

virgh

I am most thankful for Workspaces. I don't have to share each and every sheet with every person involved in each sheet. Also, I can have different groups of employees in different workspaces. Makes my work so much easier - thanks!

kowal

I am grateful for the Automations as it's the only feature that distinguish Smartsheet from other spreadsheets and allow to build beautiful solutions.

Cindy Schick

Automations in sheets is awesome and the ability to use formulas and set an entire column formula has completely changed my world so a formula computes as new data gets entered. Simply awesome. I also particularly love using Data Shuttle and the ability to import right from the sheet now is top notch!