Symbol Flexibility - more symbol colors

I currently use this with my WorFlow, it's brilliant, it serves it's purpose.

Now, I also need the Symbols, and I often find that I require more options (symbols/colours) so I would love to see:

• at least a Symbol column-type with five colors options
• and I would also like to use conditional formatting to color code arrows appropriately

As much as i would agree with this, I believe it would be more useful for all users to be able to have the programs Conditional Formatting Features choose the colors we tell it too based upon the statuses we list in our sheets since many of us use similar but not exact status names & colors.

For example, green for us = completed or approved while gray = voided or relocated (construction uses), blue = in progress, & red (#F87E7D) = not started.

So while it would be awesome to have those options, from a software standpoint on a program used by many different types of businesses/needs, it would be in their best interest (& cheaper IMO) to add additional requested symbols and then have/allow the program to change their symbols to a color we choose in the Conditional Formatting rather than try to provide a standard one for us all to use. I can't 😔 use some of their symbols for this reason (see example above), which is why I had to use the drop-down feature, adding my own.

But regardless, everyone's wants/needs in this current discussion has extremely valuable ideas/solutions that I hope Smartsheets R&D team is actually following & working on, so that we can see requests like this go from being ignored to implemented 🙂

Hello,

The dropdown symbols are adequate in most cases, but I wish we could have at least one more stoplight options that has more than just 4 color options. Specifically, how feasible would it be to have red, yellow, green, blue and grey stoplights? Some of the other symbol options have 5 symbols, so shouldn't be a crazy update. Yes I know you can add emojis and create your own symbols, but they don't show up when you go to print…If you can fix that problem, then problem solved. 🙂

Beautiful. @SoS | Dan Palenchar

Hi @Jeff Bratcher

What do you mean when you go to print, they dont show up? When i print reports with the ones i show in the examples in the post above this, they all show up in PDF's as you see them live. The only program that may show some of them differently is Excel, but we only use that program to create highly advanced metrics/dashboards for executives that Smartsheets is not capable of doing at this time.

Can you provide an example or explain what is happening so i can see if there is something i can do to help you (only if you want that)? If not, no big deal, just offering.