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Now Announcing - Linked Dropdown Columns!
November 05, 2025 Dynamic Dropdowns has long been the #2 most voted public product request. When we hear customers talk about dynamic dropdowns we hear them talk about two specific needs: Available Now - Linked dropdown columns: Keep dropdown lists across many sheets in sync In Planning - Dependent logic in dropdowns:…
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Can't use the new "Timeline View" when leveraging the new "Columns Link" in Table View
What I'm trying to do: I'm trying to leverage some of the new/upcoming features from Smartsheet to put together a sheet that brings information from multiple sheets to generate a timeline view of our Program Portfolio. The problem I'm facing: Column Linking in Table View uses essentially column formulas. Timeline view and…
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Column Linking Not Working - What am I missing?
I'm the admin of a workspace which contains 2 sheets: 1) "Source Dropdown Sheet" which should function as master dropdown list to feed other sheets (sample a US State dropdown column), and 2) "Source Sheet 1" in which I'm attempting to link the State column to reduce copy/pasting. However, after going through the process…
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Multiple sheets as sources for column link configurations
September 30, 2025 With this release, you can now use multiple sheets as sources for the same columns in column link configurations. For example, if you are looking up product data, you can match unique identifiers on a target sheet against a maximum of 10 different source sheets by building a column link configuration per…
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Column Links updated via Enhanced Global Updates
September 17, 2025 This release adds an improvement to allow column links used in Control Center blueprints to be updatable via Enhanced Global Updates, further enhancing the manageability of blueprints. In addition, column links will also be supported within templates or when sheets are copied via “Save as New”, so…
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Custom error messages for column links
September 17, 2025 You can now define a custom error message per mapped column in the case where column links do not return a record match (instead of the default #NO MATCH). Learn More Environments availability: (options available to list, separate with comma, Commercial US, Environments availability: Commercial US,…
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Allow Column Linking with Auto-Number Fields in Table View
Description: In our grant process, applicants submit an application which is assigned an Auto-Number (e.g., FAC-00001) — this becomes their official Application Number. When a grant is awarded, recipients are sent a unique URL to a report form where the Application Number is prefilled. We would like to link the Application…
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Column Links Overwrite Warning
July 16, 2025 This release introduces a warning when data would be overwritten by a new column link configuration. In the case data would be overwritten by a new column link configuration, users will now see a warning if a column that already has data in it. This is in response to user feedback in cases where column links…
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Create more Column Links per sheet
July 07, 2025 This release adds pagination to the Data Links panel so users can create additional column link configurations. Previously, users could only create 20 inbound and 20 outbound column link configurations per sheet. Limits are being increased as follows: Inbound column link configs: 20->400 Outbound column link…