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Linked contact list support - now generally available!
Feb 25, 2026 You can now link Contact List columns to another sheet, helping teams keep contact options consistent across their solutions. Together with already-released text/number based dropdown links, these capabilities enable work managers to keep selections accurate and relevant, while reducing the manual work…
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Timeline View Support for Linked Date Columns
Request: Please allow date columns populated through Column Linking to be treated as valid date columns for Timeline view. Currently, it is not possible to use Timeline View on sheets that have the Start and End dates populated via Column Linking (due to being treated as column formulas). In my organization, we pull…
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Table View - Show column links AND formula in row header
Currently, if there is a formula in a column and the data is part of a column link where that formula data is being sent elsewhere, the column only shows the Column Link icon… and doesnt show the formula icon. It gave me a minor heart attack today!!
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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,…