Dashboarding a specific cell
Hello all,
I have a smartsheet set up to calculate an inventory as items are added and subtracted via a form. I want to dashboard the current total of the item. This is the top cell of a column. I can't get the top cell to display, as when I link the cells, it displays the old cell when a new one loads in. Any thoughts?
Best Answer
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You would need to use a second sheet or a sheet summary field and then use a formula along the lines of
=INDEX([Column Name]:[Column Name], 1)
This will always pull the first value in the column being referenced. You would then display this cell/field on your dashboard in the metrics type widget.
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Hi! If you'd like to display the total of the item on a dashboard, you could use the Metric Widget & link to the appropriate cell. Depending on how you have your sheet set up, it may work best to use a sheet summary field to calculate the item total. You could then pull the sheet summary field onto the dashboard via the metric widget.
Would that accomplish your goal?
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The issue I run into is that I have the formula totaling in the top line of the sheet. When a new form is submitted, the top line of the data has the new total, but the cell I previously referenced has moved down a row, and is no longer valid.
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You would need to use a second sheet or a sheet summary field and then use a formula along the lines of
=INDEX([Column Name]:[Column Name], 1)
This will always pull the first value in the column being referenced. You would then display this cell/field on your dashboard in the metrics type widget.
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Thank you. Thats what I was missing
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Happy to help. 👍️
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