Linking forms in a dashboard.

In the meantime, you can embed a form on a dashboard.

I submitted a similar request some time ago and was searching here to see if there was an update. I did not find my idea so am up voting @John_Foster's!

Our use case:

We have template workspaces each containing sheets, reports, and dashboard. We copy a workspace for each project. Some sheets have forms. Every time we copy a workspace we need to go to open the sheet, go to the form menu, copy its URL, and add that URL to the dashboard. Not having to do this would be a significant improvement in efficiency and accuracy.

Yes! please make this happen if possible. I love using Smartsheets for multiple projects! However, one of my projects involves developing a Smartsheet dashboard as a central point for information sharing between first responder agencies during disasters at the county level. The system works great if there is only one event but I discovered in 2024 that the embedded URLs to forms in "widget behavior" in dashboard widgets do not automatically link to the new workspace like the links to "Smartsheet Items" sheets and reports do. I needed to create three workspaces to manage two separate tornado disasters and the 2024 Eclipse. The embedded URL option for forms in "widget behavior" resulted in the data submitted by first responders to be sent back to the template, not the new workspaces. Resolving the embedded URL issues was pretty chaotic but I was able to fix it in a couple of hours but if I had to set up data collection workspaces for multiple events, it would be overwhelmed correcting the URLs and reduce my availability to provide disaster support to my community in other ways.

I would like to simply save my disaster response template as new and have all of the dashboard links to forms automatically change/update like the dashboard links to sheets and reports. I checked the the URLs for the sheets and reports and observed Smartsheets assigns new URLs when saving as a new workspace. I hope that links to forms can be corrected so forms can be selected as a "widget behavior" option other than embedded URL.

This is critical decision point for whether my office continues to use smartsheets. Please fix, or let me know if it cannot be fixed. I find Smartsheets to be an amazing system and would like to continue using it. Thanks!!

Hi,

I hope you're well and safe!

I can't find where I read it.

I FOUND IT! I've been using the feature since, and it's working great.

We’ve launched automatic form relinking for dashboards.Previously, when a folder with a dashboard that has a form was provisioned in Control Center, form submissions continued to route to the original sheet instead of the new one. 

This release will introduce automatic relinking of forms in dashboards to the correct new sheet, reducing manual effort for Control Center templates that include forms.

Note! This also works without the Control Center add-on!

I hope that helps!

Be safe, and have a fantastic day!

Best,

Andrée Starå | Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

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Are you saying that if you add a web content widget to a dashboard and the web content is a form url, then that form will update to the new form if you copy the workspace?

That sounds interesting but won't solve my problems.