Allow pasting of more than 500 rows

mdemul

I keep running into this limit:

Can this be increased? It's rather frustrating.

Paul Newcome

Where exactly are you pasting from? I agree that being able to paste more than 500 rows at a time would be helpful, but in the meantime we may be able to come up with a workaround for you depending on your exact needs.

Andrée Starå

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/109119/allow-pasting-of-more-than-500-rows

Hi,

I hope you're well and safe!

Yes, I agree, but in the meanwhile, there are some workarounds.

• Import an Excel sheet, and then move the rows
• Premium app, Data Shuttle.
• + more

Would any of those options work/help?

I hope that helps!

Be safe, and have a fantastic week!

Best,

Andrée Starå | Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

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mdemul

Thank you for the suggestions. I'm working on a dashboard that is based on data from a large master sheet with over 2,000 rows. To make a pie chart based on this data, I need to make cell links from the master sheet to another sheet so that I can do data analysis there. I could do it directly in the master sheet, but that has many columns and I only need 1 column for the analysis. I can't make a cell link to an entire column, so I'm linking to the individual cells. Only, I can only make links to 500 rows at a time, so I have to repeat the linking process 5 or 6 times to cover all 2000-3000 rows.

So one limitation is that I can only link to 500 rows, the other that I can't link to a column.

I appreciate the workarounds, but I'm worried that my Smartsheet implementation and data analysis function is beginning to consist of a series of workarounds. I don't know if there is a way to avoid that. Maybe make the charting functions on dashboards more accepting of different data formats.

Thank you,

Marc

Andrée Starå

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/comment/391384#Comment_391384

Happy to help!

What about using a cross-sheet formula instead?

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Paul Newcome

Depending on how exactly you need to run your calculations from that one column, you may be able to create a row report and use the grouping and summary features within the report to populate your chart.

Otherwise you should be able to use a formula with cross sheet references to run your calculations such as a SUMIFS or a COUNTIFS (or some of the other functions available.

What kind of calculations are you trying to run to generate the chart, and are you able to provide a screenshot (even with sample data) for context?

L_123

* I can't make a cell link to an entire column

=Index({Column reference},1)

then

=Index({Column Reference},1+count(Firstcell$1:Firstcell1)) and drag down.

Lisa B 2022

I desperately need this option!!!!!!!! Pasting 35,000 rows from Google Sheets regularly.. smartsheet is linked to another external system so importing is not an option.

Paul Newcome

@Lisa B 2022 Do you have access to Data Shuttle?

kohei_DAI_29

Hello! It would be fantastic if you could either abolish or at least provide an option of getting rid of the 500-row restriction for copying and pasting!

ChristianFinke

I completely agree—lifting or providing an option to bypass the 500-row restriction for copying and pasting would be incredibly helpful, especially for managing larger datasets. Hopefully, Smartsheet considers this in a future update!