Formulas Not Pulling

Stephanie Bauder · 07/08/20

We currently utilize a very large global onboarding smartsheet. When a new hire accepts a position, the onboarding team uses a form to manually add them to the tracker so we can assign out the onboarding tasks and track progress. As part of a business initiative, we also have hidden column to track the amount of time spent for each onboarding task so we can better align our resources.

However, as new rows are created, it appears the formulas are dropped/lost. The form settings is currently set to "add to top".

Can you help me figure out how to get the formulas to automatically populate when a new row is added so I don't have to manually drag the formulas down the entire sheet?

Andrée Starå · 07/08/20

Hi Stephanie,

As long as the following is true it should work.

The new row will be auto-filled with the formulas if there are two rows below/above with the same formulas.

More details:

If the formula structure is the same above/below the Formula Autofill will add the formula(s) automatically.

Conditions That Trigger Formula Autofill

You’ll see formulas populate automatically when you type in a newly inserted or blank row that is:

Directly between two others that contain the same formula in adjacent cells.
At the topmost of the sheet if it’s above two rows that have the same formula in adjacent cells. (This includes rows inserted from a form.)
At the bottommost of the sheet if it’s below two rows that have the same formula in adjacent cells. (This includes rows inserted from a form.)
Above or below a single row that is between blank rows and has formulas.

More info:

https://help.smartsheet.com/articles/1641473-auto-filling-formulas-and-formatting

I hope that helps!

Be safe and have a fantastic week!

Best,

Andrée Starå

Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

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Andrée Starå · 07/08/20