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Exporting History Data
I would like to export history data from an existing project, and tabulate the history data in excel. For example, I would like to see how finish dates have changed over time, for hundreds of rows, over the course of a project that has already finished. Is there a functionality to export a cell's (or selection of cells, or an entire sheet's) history?
Currently the only two options I can see are either right clicking on each cell individually, select "view history", then manually record this history data by hand. This would be extremely prohibitive as the pop-up window can't even be highlighted and copied to the clipboard. The other option is to intermittently save a copy of a schedule as the project progresses, then infer differences. Neither of these options will work for my purposes as I would like information for hundreds of cells, and the projects I'm interested in investigating have already completed.
Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Trenton
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You can get cell history via the Smartsheet API. You can target specific cells on a sheet to see all of its history. More info is in the docs here:
http://smartsheet-platform.github.io/api-docs/#get-cell-history
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+1 to this, but in a way that does not require I learn how to write code.
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yes, i'm no coding guru either, I need to be able to pull the history from a sheet in an easy manner
