Can one undelete a full Row once it has been deleted and then the sheet saved?

Paul Newcome · 05/16/22

Unfortunately that is not an action that cannot be undone. You would have to look through the Activity Log and re-enter the row.

Andrée Starå · 05/16/22

Hi @Paul Rusek

I hope you're well and safe!

To add to Paul's excellent advice/answer.

You can check the Activity Log and possibly request a Snapshot from the change.

Did that work/help?

I hope that helps!

Be safe and have a fantastic week!

Best,

Andrée Starå | Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

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Brad Jones · 06/23/22

@Paul Rusek

Unfortunately, Smartsheet STILL does not have the ability to fully recover deleted rows. Sure, they may be able to send you an Excel style backup, but you lose your: Cell history, conversation thread, attachments, formatting, etc etc etc. You 'might' get the raw cell contents back, but that's basically it.

As it stands, 7+ years on and fully, completely, and unequivocally aware, Smartsheet still has the behavior that if someone can edit a single cell within a row of a sheet - they can delete the entire row! And, they can delete it without even getting a pop-up message to ask them if they're sure they want to delete it! (which is funny, because if they try to unlock it they get a pop-up - but if they try to delete it, they succeed without even being questioned)

And, as if it being absurdly easy to lose data wasn’t enough of a kick in the pants, they also still don’t have a true backup option available. Meaning, if you lose a sheet/row/etc – all they can provide you with is a flat excel sheet with a pile of unlinked attachments. All cell history, formatting, links, etc are gone gone gone.

Feel free to review the following community posts, and then decide if you'd like to open an enhancement request on this 7+ year old issue.

Smartsheet: PLEASE do the following:

1. IMMEDIATELY (stop-gap) Implement a pop-up message whenever someone tries to delete a row. (this is already done for the 'unlock row' feature, and should be fast and easy enough to implement for 'delete row')

-zero impact on existing user rights

AND

2a. (solution) Implement a change to the software that will allow sheet owners to prohibit deleting any row that contains a locked cell/column.

OR

2b. (solution) Implement a new user level that is "Editor - safe" where the user has all the rights of an Editor but where the 'delete row' functionality is greyed out. (There is only one permission difference between 'Editor - cannot share' and 'Editor - can share', so the precedent is there.)

Here is my ongoing (and incomplete) list of how many times Smartsheet has ignored this problem:

June 2015

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/rows-being-removed

August 2015

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/revert-old-version-sheet

August 2015

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/avoid-shared-person-delete-my-row

August 2015

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/conditional-lock

August 2015

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/find-deleated-items

October 2015