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Tip for Day to get the team to play.

Jeremy Michels
Jeremy Michels ✭✭✭✭✭
edited 12/09/19 inArchived 2015 Posts

One of the things that we have done as of late to speed the ability to work in the sheet and for people to move about in the sheet is hyperlink your sub sheets to your master sheet. The Hyperlink creates a fast way to go to anothe sheet without closing the main sheet. If you have you settings correct you can have a new tab in the browser open and you will have to sheets open at once. If someone is new or you want your boss to use Smartsheet this makes it easy to get to the infomation and back. The sheets name that is hyperlinked is turned blue. As soon as you select it you are sent to the other sheet. We used this to launch a mastermind group that has 40 businesses and 40 sheets per business. All of the new users found their way around quickly.

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  • Richard Rymill SBP
    Richard Rymill SBP ✭✭✭✭✭✭
    编辑04/08/15

    Great suggestions Jeremy, using Hyperlinks, attachments and links out to Google and Dropbox we have a Library Bucket sheet that is just that, a Library of all the important documentation, web links video collateral et al for the different departments in our team. Gives everyone easy access to what they need to get their work done more easily. It's a simple solution to a common problem of lack of visibility.

    Regards RichardR

  • Travis
    Travis Employee

    Great tip Jeremy! Internally here at Smartsheet, we have a sheet called Company Resources which has all the resources an employee may need. There are links out to sheets where they can record PTO, view the team contact list, support processes, etc. The sheet also contains tons of information from health care contacts, employee handbook, to office maps and expense reports. As an employee, its a great resource for all thing Smartsheet and helps to lighten the load on HR.

  • Jeremy Michels
    Jeremy Michels ✭✭✭✭✭

    I learned a bit about that HR sytem when I was there. I am going to barrow a bit of it for our company. We doubled in size yesterday and we are in need of getting this data put together.

  • Is there a way to make the link open a smartsheet as a new tab in the same Smartsheet session? and if the sheet was already open, just to get there.

    It would be very good for navigation amongst many sheets.

    Also, is there a formula like =HYPERLINK(... ?

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No. In your formula from your post just before my last one, you were adding together 3 different joins. The first one has a different syntax from the 2nd and 3rd. The 2nd and 3rd have the correct syntax already.<\/p>"}]}},"status":{"statusID":3,"name":"Accepted","state":"closed","recordType":"discussion","recordSubType":"question"},"bookmarked":false,"unread":false,"category":{"categoryID":322,"name":"Formulas and Functions","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/formulas-and-functions","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":[]},{"discussionID":109176,"type":"question","name":"How to check a box if exact text is found within a string of text","excerpt":"Hello, I am trying to place a check in a box when some exact text is found within a string of words. I am looking to place a check when \"TAC\" is found in a string of words. Here's the formula I am using, but its not working. No error message, but is not selecting the checkbox appropriately. =IF(HAS([Column Name1]@row,…","snippet":"Hello, I am trying to place a check in a box when some exact text is found within a string of words. I am looking to place a check when \"TAC\" is found in a string of words. Here's…","categoryID":322,"dateInserted":"2023-08-19T01:53:52+00:00","dateUpdated":null,"dateLastComment":"2023-08-19T17:54:54+00:00","insertUserID":149359,"insertUser":{"userID":149359,"name":"Jen H.","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Jen%20H.","photoUrl":"https:\/\/aws.smartsheet.com\/storageProxy\/image\/images\/u!1!uzlXJ-dimro!oc1UqANVjEQ!GEwnp-NhEjM","dateLastActive":"2023-08-19T18:02:04+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭"},"updateUserID":null,"lastUserID":149359,"lastUser":{"userID":149359,"name":"Jen H.","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Jen%20H.","photoUrl":"https:\/\/aws.smartsheet.com\/storageProxy\/image\/images\/u!1!uzlXJ-dimro!oc1UqANVjEQ!GEwnp-NhEjM","dateLastActive":"2023-08-19T18:02:04+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭"},"pinned":false,"pinLocation":null,"closed":false,"sink":false,"countComments":2,"countViews":34,"score":null,"hot":3384878926,"url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/109176\/how-to-check-a-box-if-exact-text-is-found-within-a-string-of-text","canonicalUrl":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/109176\/how-to-check-a-box-if-exact-text-is-found-within-a-string-of-text","format":"Rich","tagIDs":[254],"lastPost":{"discussionID":109176,"commentID":391532,"name":"Re: How to check a box if exact text is found within a string of text","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/comment\/391532#Comment_391532","dateInserted":"2023-08-19T17:54:54+00:00","insertUserID":149359,"insertUser":{"userID":149359,"name":"Jen H.","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Jen%20H.","photoUrl":"https:\/\/aws.smartsheet.com\/storageProxy\/image\/images\/u!1!uzlXJ-dimro!oc1UqANVjEQ!GEwnp-NhEjM","dateLastActive":"2023-08-19T18:02:04+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":"Formulas and Functions","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/formulas-and-functions"}],"groupID":null,"statusID":3,"attributes":{"question":{"status":"accepted","dateAccepted":"2023-08-19T17:54:00+00:00","dateAnswered":"2023-08-19T02:33:27+00:00","acceptedAnswers":[{"commentID":391518,"body":"

HAS() will only return true under three conditions.<\/p>

  1. The cell is a multicontact cell and contains a match for the contact<\/li>
  2. The cell is a multiselect dropdown and contains a match<\/li>
  3. The cell is not a multicontact or multiselect dropdown and contains ONLY and EXACTLY the text you are matching against. <\/li><\/ol>

    I am assuming your row in question is a standard Text\/Number cell? If so, you will need to get somewhat creative with some CONTAINS() statements.<\/p>

    This will narrow down your matches to only cells that contain a space both before and after TAC. If, however, TAC can appear as the first or last \"word\" in the cell, it would not match in that circumstance as there would only be a space on one side.<\/p>

    =IF(CONTAINS(\" TAC \", [Column Name1]@row), 1, 0)<\/p>


    <\/p>

    If TAC can appear as the first or last \"word\" in the cell, this will cover those possibilities as well.<\/p>

    =IF(OR(CONTAINS(\" TAC \", [Column Name1]@row), LEFT([Column Name1]@row, 4) = \"TAC \", RIGHT([Column Name1]@row, 4) = \" TAC\"), 1, 0)<\/p>


    <\/p>

    If it is possible that TAC will be the exact entry of the cell, you will need an additional statement to cover that, as there would not be spaces on either side. This will add that option.<\/p>

    =IF(OR(CONTAINS(\" TAC \", [Column Name1]@row), LEFT([Column Name1]@row, 4) = \"TAC \", RIGHT([Column Name1]@row, 4) = \" TAC\", [Column Name1]@row = \"TAC\"), 1, 0)<\/p>


    <\/p>

    If there are other situations you may have in your sheet, i.e., TAC inside parenthesis, or before or after punctuation, etc, you will additional statements to include those options as well.<\/p>"}]}},"status":{"statusID":3,"name":"Accepted","state":"closed","recordType":"discussion","recordSubType":"question"},"bookmarked":false,"unread":false,"category":{"categoryID":322,"name":"Formulas and Functions","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/formulas-and-functions","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":254,"urlcode":"Formulas","name":"Formulas"}]},{"discussionID":109146,"type":"question","name":"Identify Workflow from ID?","excerpt":"Good morning, got a random one. Is there any way to identify what sheet or workflow an automation ran from? I got a rogue automation this morning, and I don't know what sheet it lives in. However, I noticed at the bottom of the email, there is an ID number, similar to a sheet or row ID. Is there any way, maybe with the…","snippet":"Good morning, got a random one. Is there any way to identify what sheet or workflow an automation ran from? I got a rogue automation this morning, and I don't know what sheet it…","categoryID":321,"dateInserted":"2023-08-18T14:25:47+00:00","dateUpdated":null,"dateLastComment":"2023-08-19T08:29:31+00:00","insertUserID":137019,"insertUser":{"userID":137019,"name":"Samuel Mueller","title":"","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Samuel%20Mueller","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/userpics\/B9G8B70WXQWC\/nKTI46EH9WQOM.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-08-18T20:30:29+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"Overachievers"},"updateUserID":null,"lastUserID":161820,"lastUser":{"userID":161820,"name":"Hamza1","title":"Mr","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Hamza1","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/defaultavatar\/nWRMFRX6I99I6.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-08-20T04:58:20+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"Moderator"},"pinned":false,"pinLocation":null,"closed":false,"sink":false,"countComments":4,"countViews":49,"score":null,"hot":3384804918,"url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/109146\/identify-workflow-from-id","canonicalUrl":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/109146\/identify-workflow-from-id","format":"Rich","tagIDs":[227,334,448],"lastPost":{"discussionID":109146,"commentID":391519,"name":"Re: Identify Workflow from ID?","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/comment\/391519#Comment_391519","dateInserted":"2023-08-19T08:29:31+00:00","insertUserID":161820,"insertUser":{"userID":161820,"name":"Hamza1","title":"Mr","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Hamza1","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/defaultavatar\/nWRMFRX6I99I6.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-08-20T04:58:20+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"Moderator"}},"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,"image":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/EYR2B79VH1AY\/image.png","urlSrcSet":{"10":"","300":"","800":"","1200":"","1600":""},"alt":"image.png"},"attributes":{"question":{"status":"accepted","dateAccepted":"2023-08-18T19:37:53+00:00","dateAnswered":"2023-08-18T19:10:30+00:00","acceptedAnswers":[{"commentID":391468,"body":"

    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>


    <\/p>

    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"}]}],"initialPaging":{"nextURL":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/api\/v2\/discussions?page=2&includeChildCategories=1&type%5B0%5D=Question&excludeHiddenCategories=1&siteSectionID=0&sort=-hot&limit=3&expand%5B0%5D=all&expand%5B1%5D=-body&expand%5B2%5D=insertUser&expand%5B3%5D=lastUser&status=accepted","prevURL":null,"currentPage":1,"total":10000,"limit":3},"title":"Trending Posts","subtitle":null,"description":null,"noCheckboxes":true,"containerOptions":[],"discussionOptions":[]}">

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