Auto Sort Smartsheet

James Keuning

I understand that the answer to all of this low-hanging fruit is to submit an enhancement request, but Smartsheet's enhancement request feature is basically a waste of our time. They know that this is needed.

If they were serious about managing enhancement requests, they would give us an easier way to submit them.

Eva.

Please. Let us know when auto-sort, grouping a column automatically is avaialble.

F van Rensburg

Smartsheet, it would be very useful to autosort rows within a sheet. Please provide some sort of update on the request.

CycleBagEd

Yes, you really need better sort features

Andrée Starå

Hi everyone, @CycleBagEd @F van Rensburg @Eva. @James Keuning

I hope you're well and safe!

Great idea! That would be a great addition to Smartsheet features.

Please submit this as a Product Feedback or Idea (If it hasn't been added already) when you have a moment.

I hope that helps!

Be safe and have a fantastic weekend!

Best,

Andrée Starå | Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

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CricketCO

Is there a way for us to just upvote already submitted enhancement requests? It is evident this request has already been submitted multiple times over the past two years. We also really need the ability to have the grid view auto-sort or at least a way to write a rule to make this happen.

The risk is too high that someone will forget to sort and think the sheet is broken or miss a project without auto-sorting.

Andrée Starå

Hi @CricketCO

I hope you're well and safe!

Yes, if it has already been submitted you can upvote it.

Check here.

Please submit this as a Product Feedback or Idea (If it hasn't been added already) when you have a moment.

I hope that helps!

Be safe and have a fantastic week!

Best,

Andrée Starå | Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

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Heidi Jo

Is there an update on if and when automated sorting will be added? It's actually a pretty big roadblock in our process as well. We desperately need to be able to automate default sorting in both the Grid and the Card View's Swim Lanes by rules for everyone that works in our sheet. It's hard to believe with all the responses here in agreement it hasn't been considered or worked on in over two years since this was originally posted.

Christopher_McCleary

I would really like Smartsheets to provide this functionality. It is an easy item that Excel has had for many years. Saving filter types should be just as easy as having a saved sort function.

Petra

Please vote for the implementation of Auto-Sort here: https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/92373/auto-sort-rows-in-sheet

It says: On Roadmap - but not additional information when/how this will finally be made available to us.

johngraham78

+1 for auto sorting of rows. Without it users must constantly update/sort dynamic view. They should open dynamic view with automatic sorts already done.

SSFeatures

Hi @Petra and @johngraham78,

I created a browser extension that adds automatic sorting into SmartSheet. You can can click here to download the browser extension.

Then click "Sort Rows":

Then click "Sort Automatically":

Then the browser extension will automatically sort whenever the data changes. The browser extension also saves your sort settings, so that you don't need to manually re-enter them.

Also, this automatic sorting works with filters. So if you enable automatic sorting, and then add a filter, the extension will automatically sort the data even with a filter enabled.

Please let me know if you have any questions!