Line breaks not carrying forward in Sights

Tom Schlofner

I have cells that each have several short topics that I separate using line breaks (ctrl-enter) to make the text more readable.  For example:

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topic 1

topic 2

topic 3

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When display these cells in Sights using the Sheet widget, that formatting is lost and the topics all run together.  This is the result in Sights:

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topic 1 topic 2 topic 3 

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I was hoping this latest release indicating that cell formatting could be preserved but this type of formatting apparently is not.  I'm attempting to create a dashboard of textual updates that roll up two levels in the organization but this is a serious limitation.  Am I missing something?

Daniel Stein

Thanks Tom for the feedback. We are looking into adding inheriting wrap text in Metric & Sheet Data widgets in a future release.

 

In the meantime, a few other options are:

- Add the line items to a Rich Text widget, which you can update them directly in the Sight and apply bullets & formatting as desired.

- Add each item to a different cell. Then, pull the set of cells into the Sight via a Sheet data widget. Or you could pull them into a report and then show them in the Sight via a Report widget. (A report would accommodate a variable number of rows.)

 

Hope this helps,

Daniel

 

Product Manager | Smartsheet