Provide users with the ability to Print a Grouped Report

Christine Cao

Agree with user's community's feedback. This design gap should be addressed because without the grouping on the printed, exported versions, the report loses a great deal of context. It becomes worthless. Report info are often for a target audience so unless you build specific dashboard just to display the report to "print", that's not a good workaround.

AJones

I need to send attachment (create a report subscription) that includes groupings and summaries. Please advise.

meb_0101

+1

The ability to print/export a grouped report is obviously wanted and needed. I hope this is an update we see soon.

TMD_Alny

My team requires this gap to be addressed so we can send attachments with groups and summaries.

XR_Tech404

Happy Birthday to this Enhancement Request! No one showed up to the party. All we wanted this year is an update. :-(

Tamara Diver

Our organisation completely supports this request, the report export without the grouping/summary is pointless and needs to be fixed.

Richard Heath

Hello @Genevieve P.

I'm hoping you or another Smartsheet team-member can provide some updates on how Smartsheet is fixing this bug.

There has been plenty of feedback over the course of the last 12 months - this bug is clearly causing major headaches for users and the suggestion to integrate a Report into a Dashboard as a workaround is one that I don't believe is that popular.

Taylor Scott

+1 to this, for sure. Being able to pdf/print the report exactly as it appears would fantastic.

Why do we need this? Being in the construction industry, I work with many people who are technology illiterate and like to print physical documents still.

R. LeFrere

This is still a problem, whether you try to print or export to PDF or excel, the grouping does not persist. I've added to a dashboard, however, will only print what is on the dashboard, so if you have a large report that you have to scroll down, it doesn't capture.

Jon Barto

I totally agree. I cant believe smartsheet has this nice grouping report feature but you cant print it or email it out. This seems like such a basic feature. But oooh you can resize a widget on dashboard.. (newest update)

I as much as I like some of the new things rolling out, I wish smartsheet would fix some of the basic items may of us have been asking for. Especially the items such as this. Been working on for the past year?? WOW.

Sydneyv

Agree 1000%. I was able to generate a report of exactly what I needed, but I'm unable to easily share it with external viewers that need access to it. I've essentially resorted to saving a screen shot as a PDF to share the information. When will this be available?!

Leif Summerfield

Put me down for (checks my notes...) Gobsmacked! That printing and exports of a report, flattens the data back to it's raw state.

Juli Peers

I am so surprised that this has not been solved yet. I remember being so excited when grouping became available in January of 2022 (I believe or maybe it was even 2021) because I thought it would make one of our pain points (having the one way data links between sheets) a think of the past. I was greatly disappointed when I learned that it would not keep the grouping when exported to a pdf. A pdf is what management wants no negotiation. That was over a year and half ago (or longer) and I was sure that it would be possible by now but am greatly disappointed that it is still not. It definitely has stifled my use of reports and actually SmartSheet in general.

Carolyn Stone

I too need this functionality! Dashboards do not work when you have large amounts of rows on your report that span more than a page, and I need to save it to an excel file to send to others as a monthly Status Report. Have had to resort to putting grouping headers into the main tracking sheet, which is defeats the purpose of trying to flatten the data on the sheet, but it allows you to keep the groupings at least when you export.

robinfig

Adding my +1 FWIW. though I have to say I am not optimistic given that the original request was made in 2021 and it seems that there is no indication of timeline from SS since that point. It would be nice to know if they care what the SS Community think about this idea and whether they can give us hope for this feature to be implemented