Can a cell be linked to multiple rows simultaneously?

Sumith Rajagopalan

Hi,

 

I want to link a cell value to multiple rows of another sheet.

 

I tried copying the source cell, highlighting multiple cells in another sheet and tried Paste special - Link to copied cell.  However it only assigns the value and links to the first cell alone !!

 

Any help or direction is highly appreciated.

 

Brett Evans

I think you would need to concatenate or do the math in the source sheet, and then link to that cell on the source sheet.  You could do this in a hidded column on the source sheet and then it looks to come over to the target sheet magically and everyone goes wow, you get kudos and everyone is happy.

Sumith Rajagopalan

@Brett, I didn't quite understand.  Probably because I didn't give an example.

 

Suppose I have a sheet for Employees and another one for Tasks.

In Employee shee I have 'Brett Evans'  and in the Tasks sheet I've a column 'Assigned to' and I want to assign / link 'Brett Evans' to multiple rows of 'Assigned To' column.

 

 

Brett Evans

I think the most effective way to accomplish this specific goal in Smartsheet is to make sure Assigned To is a column type "Contact List".    That will look up to anyone the sheet has been shared with, along with the rest of your company contacts. 

Sumith Rajagopalan

The issue is assignment. I may have to assign 50 rows to Brett and it's painstacking if I've to do it one at a time.  And assigning name was just an example.  The requirement I have is to assign a unique ID from sheet 1 to sheet 2.

 

Thanks for your comments & suggestions.

Brett Evans

Happy to suggest options.  If you fully describe the problem you are trying to solve and/or publish examples of the sheets you're using, with all sensitive info removed, I can be more helpful.

Sumith Rajagopalan

Sheet 1 is a list of Accounts.  One of the column in the list is 'Account Number' (alphanumeric).

Sheet 2 is a list of Transactions.  One of the column in this list is the 'Account Number' associated with the specific transaction.

 

Now I would have added (copied / pasted) some 50 transactions into this sheet 2 associated with an account.  Now I want to create a cell link between the 'Account Number' from Sheet 1 to all these 50 lines in Sheet 2.

 

Current option is create a link cell by cell 50 times.  Which is not viable.  I'm looking for a way to create the link in 1 go.  Like select that 50 cells and 'somehow paste' the cell link.

 

Does that help?

JamesR

Cell link to the top cell then put formula in second cell  =First Cell Absolute it cand copy down to the remining rows.

Sumith Rajagopalan

Hi James,

 

What do you mean by 'Absolute It'?

 

Thanks

JamesR

=columnname$2

James

Sumith Rajagopalan

Great.  Thank you