Please enhance Column Contacts and Form Contacts by allowing Groups to be used!

I could go on about it, but there are some basic “table-stakes” sorts of features that need to be incorporated into how column contact lists are handled within Smartsheet. First and foremost, please, for the 37th time, allow us to drag a group in and create items contacts within a column contact list.

ALSO, please make it so that we can COPY a column with Contacts loaded and use it again in the same sheet!

Neither should be a premium feature or require an API buildup! This would have saved me hours so far this year, and could easily save me more! ...Do the same thing for Forms please!

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Paul Newcome

You can give a user group management permissions without giving them sys admin permissions.

Pete C

Ah, ok, cool. I didn’t spot that bit! Every day is a school day. I will give our sys admin a knock and see what we can get going!

Thanks again for the pointer!

RuthieRooks

The ability to add groups as contacts in columns would save us so much leg work. Every time we get a new hire or someone gets a promotion (in certain scenarios), they have to be manually added to several columns as contacts for our workflows to behave as designed.

Aaron Gilbert

For all the amazing things I can do in Smartsheet, this is a MASSIVE pain point. I need to use contact columns to make my workflows function. We have centralized admin teams that maintain and update user groups… Can I PLEASE reference those user groups in the contact drop down for a dynamic list of active users on a team vs manually adding/removing or maintaining crazy work around reference sheets to accommodate any change to team members?

I would also consider it a win if my intake form was able to reference our user library the same way direct cell entry does.

Either solution works, both would be amazing, but this limitation is a major pain point and has even derailed workflow projects when the intent is to not have direct manual oversight.

RBenton

I agree with the comments posted previously. Having groups accessible in contact columns would save time and ensure data consistency.

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