Copy specific cells to another sheet

Hi ,

Is it possible with automation function to copy specific cells from choice to another sheet with out copying the complete row with all columns

For example To cop cells in column A, B and F to another sheet without copying middle cloumns D, E etc

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  • Andrée Starå
    Andrée Starå ✭✭✭✭✭✭

    Hi@Waleed

    I hope you're well and safe!

    Unfortunately, it's not possible now, but it's an excellent idea!

    Please submit an Enhancement Request when you have a moment.

    Here's a possible workaround or workarounds

    • You could use cross-sheet formulas combined with either a VLOOKUP or INDEX/MATCH structure to connect the sheets, and when you update the source sheet, it will reflect on the destination sheet.
    • Another option would be to use so-called helper sheets.In short, copy the row to a helper sheet and then use my method described previously to get the values you need to another helper sheet and then copy/move the row from that sheet to the main destination sheet.

    Would that work/help?

    I hope that helps!

    Be safe and have a fantastic week!

    Best,

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  • Waleed
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    edited 10/20/21

    Honestly. almost fed-up of sending enhancement requests to production .

    i feel the chance to consider them like my chances to win lottery :(

    I prefer to save time and ask you kindly to more explain about the work around , maybe like in steps :(

  • I am having this same issue. I am using a form to collect data from our customer that then needs to be automatically moved to our project management form, without pulling over columns. We simply need the cell data as populated by the sheet to be moved to particular cells in the destination sheet that we designate.

  • @Andrée Staråis there any update on request :"""Is it possible with automation function to copy specific cells from choice to another sheet with out copying the complete row with all columns

    For example To cop cells in column A, B and F to another sheet without copying middle cloumns D, E etc""

  • @Andrée StaråI would also like to follow-up on this request. It would be exceptionally helpful if only designated columns could be copied to another sheet rather than entire rows.

  • @Andrée Starå: Please consider that enhancement as it would speed up a lot of tasks. Thank you

Yeah. That does sound like it could take awhile. Haha. And if you knew the sheet I'd, you'd be able to just jump to it in SS instead of needing the api.<\/p>


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Maybe a product enhancement request to expand the workflow portion of the api to include the sheet id is in order.<\/p>"}]}},"status":{"statusID":3,"name":"Accepted","state":"closed","recordType":"discussion","recordSubType":"question"},"bookmarked":false,"unread":false,"category":{"categoryID":321,"name":"Smartsheet Basics","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/smartsheet-basics%2B","allowedDiscussionTypes":[]},"reactions":[{"tagID":3,"urlcode":"Promote","name":"Promote","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":5,"count":0},{"tagID":5,"urlcode":"Insightful","name":"Insightful","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0},{"tagID":11,"urlcode":"Up","name":"Vote Up","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0},{"tagID":13,"urlcode":"Awesome","name":"Awesome","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0}],"tags":[{"tagID":227,"urlcode":"api-and-developers","name":"API and Developers"},{"tagID":334,"urlcode":"automations","name":"Automations"},{"tagID":448,"urlcode":"workflows-in-smartsheet","name":"Workflows in Smartsheet"}]},{"discussionID":109144,"type":"question","name":"Can you automatically rename\/add prefix to a mapped document?","excerpt":"I'm having an issue where I'm regularly automating a mapped document. The input comes in via a form, the service rep makes sure all content is ok, then hits the \"create PDF\" checkbox. A PDF is created and attaches itself to the row. This is great, and gets around the fact you can't just print a nice looking version of the…","snippet":"I'm having an issue where I'm regularly automating a mapped document. The input comes in via a form, the service rep makes sure all content is ok, then hits the \"create PDF\"…","categoryID":321,"dateInserted":"2023-08-18T14:12:34+00:00","dateUpdated":null,"dateLastComment":"2023-08-18T16:30:13+00:00","insertUserID":162047,"insertUser":{"userID":162047,"name":"Nat","title":"Project Manager","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Nat","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/userpics\/TGR5VC4AXHS3\/nABTHIGSKZB11.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-08-18T17:09:13+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭"},"updateUserID":null,"lastUserID":45516,"lastUser":{"userID":45516,"name":"Paul Newcome","title":"","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Paul%20Newcome","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/userpics\/082\/nQPUTVFKKWDJ2.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-08-18T20:45:06+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭✭✭✭✭"},"pinned":false,"pinLocation":null,"closed":false,"sink":false,"countComments":8,"countViews":73,"score":null,"hot":3384748967,"url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/109144\/can-you-automatically-rename-add-prefix-to-a-mapped-document","canonicalUrl":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/109144\/can-you-automatically-rename-add-prefix-to-a-mapped-document","format":"Rich","tagIDs":[204,334,539],"lastPost":{"discussionID":109144,"commentID":391421,"name":"Re: Can you automatically rename\/add prefix to a mapped document?","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/comment\/391421#Comment_391421","dateInserted":"2023-08-18T16:30:13+00:00","insertUserID":45516,"insertUser":{"userID":45516,"name":"Paul Newcome","title":"","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Paul%20Newcome","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/userpics\/082\/nQPUTVFKKWDJ2.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-08-18T20:45:06+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭✭✭✭✭"}},"breadcrumbs":[{"name":"Home","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/"},{"name":"Get Help","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/get-help"},{"name":"Smartsheet Basics","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/smartsheet-basics%2B"}],"groupID":null,"statusID":3,"attributes":{"question":{"status":"accepted","dateAccepted":"2023-08-18T14:58:45+00:00","dateAnswered":"2023-08-18T14:34:35+00:00","acceptedAnswers":[{"commentID":391406,"body":"

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