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When should we use reports? i see no need to use reports, I want to know is there any importanve of using reports?
Trick question?
Have you ever wanted to publish a view that only showed tasks completed in the past week or month?
Or have you ever wanted a group of consumers to see some columns but not all as a view of a worksheet?
Have you built any dashboards?
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yes i have. But how can I use reports in my dashboard?
You can actually display a report directly in your Smartsheet dashboard.
Also, you can publish them as read-only and share links to dynamic, updating reports with your constituents for transparency on processes, timing and the likes.
And if you use a template for multiple projects and want to view the same set of criteria across all of those sheets at the same time such as looking at multiple project plans for all deliverables that are past due and having them in one place.
Anyway we can make this view only for security purposes? We would like to prevent users from sending responses to other users by accident.
I am currently setting up an automation for people to get notified through their email, when they are prompted. But is there a way that they can reply in the email of a comment that will then go to the specific sheet. This way they do not have access to the sheet, but can just comment through email with updates?
Is there a way to revert to the old dashboard look and feel. The new dashboards do not look good at all. There is no way of knowing if there are additional items in the widgets until you scroll over one to learn there is more to it since the vertical bar doesn't show. We have hundreds of dashboards and they will all need…
