Most annoying and problematic functionality in Smartsheet

Sandra Murray

Setting up a post to list the community's most annoying and problematic features. Perhaps Smartsheet can actually work on them.

Sorting - sheets don't auto-sort - have to continue to re-sort every time something new is added AND unable to sort when a filter is on. This is just basic functionality that SHOULD EXIST!!

Sandra Murray

Unable to move the primary column on reports that have been grouped.

Sandra Murray

Modifying dashboard widgets - can't select more than one to change the size of the font so One.... by One.... I do it again.

Sandra Murray

Copy your formula that is linked to an existing reference - unable to create a new reference after copying so have to edit the old which destroys the previous formula and then return to edit again..... which creates an error... **Yes I can make it work but does it have to be this difficult***

Sandra Murray

Primary columns in reports have to be renamed in reports - why doesn't it see the name from the sheet???

Genevieve P.

Hi @Sandra Murray

I just wanted to hop in here and let you know that the Community has a dedicated area for you to let the Product team know about your feedback and feature requests! Here's a link to the Product Feedback and Ideas topic.

A number of your comments have already been posted by other members. In this case, please feel free to add your vote to these posts. The Product team reviews the Top Voted posts each month and provides a status. If you've voted on a post, you'll receive a notification when the Status changes.

(Note that the Product team does not review or respond to general posts in other areas of the Community so they won't see this current thread.)

Posts you may want to vote on / add your comments to:

• Auto Sort Rows in Sheet
• Workaround Needed for Smartsheet Issue with Primary Columns
• Dashboard Improvement
• Auto-Update column names in reports

If you don't find a current idea that matches any of your feedback, please free free to create a new Idea type of post so other members can vote on this as well! Best practice is to create one Idea post per suggestion to enable clear voting. Here's the Ideas category FAQ for more information.

As a final note, in regards to editing cross-sheet references, if you're looking to add a new reference, you'll want to delete out the entire {old reference} and use the helper pop-up window to create an entirely new reference. (See the note in this Help Article: View, modify, or delete cross sheet references in formulas).

Cheers,

Genevieve

Sandra Murray

That would be great if these items were actually addressed. For example, the autosort option goes back (in another post) to 2018, really. In 5 years, Smartsheet has been unable to address a basic feature like auto sorting a sheet.

Sandra Murray

Charts on Dashboards lose all formatting when any change is made to the data source. Chart type, colors, all disappear and have to be reset.

Sandra Murray

Reports do not auto- refresh when changes are made. Post for this is from 2019 which indicates a bug but not fixed.