Control Center Global Updates

Gary
Gary ✭✭✭
edited 12/09/19 inSmartsheet Basics

We are now using Control Center to provision projects and as we are learning how to use it better we need to keep doing some updates to the templates and the existing projects we have already provisioned. I have been using the Global Update feature, but when I use it to update a Dropdown list in a Dropdown column, the column is moved in all the sheets that it updates. I have seen it move from 2-3 columns up to 10 columns away from it's original location on the sheet.

There is an advanced function with the Global update that allows you to select where you want the column to appear in your sheet and I checked that before doing the updates and it is correct, but the column still does not appear where it was selected to be.

You can see the before and after location of a column that I tested with a Global update that it moved it from it's original location.

This is causing heartache with the persons that have their sheets setup the way they want with their column order and causing a lot of confusion.

Has anyone else seen this happen?

Does anyone have any idea what is going on?

Thanks,

Gary

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Comments

@Jillian M<\/a> an IF statement will do what you need.<\/p>

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@TheoR74<\/a>,<\/p>

As long as your destination sheet doesn't have the numbering column setup as an Auto Number, you should be fine. In your destination sheet, keep the numbering column as a \"Text\/Number\" column instead.<\/p>

BRgds,<\/p>

-Ray<\/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":334,"urlcode":"automations","name":"Automations"}]},{"discussionID":107872,"type":"question","name":"Using Sum function on 2 referring pages","excerpt":"I am trying to sum to different cells on 2 different Smart Sheets and I I keep on getting a #UNPARSEABLE error. It works fine when it references only 1 sheet but I need to sum probably about 20+ sheets when I am done. Just testing with 2 right now. Any help is appreciated =SUM({AAA Pet Services - Sign Ups Range 1}{AAA Pet…","snippet":"I am trying to sum to different cells on 2 different Smart Sheets and I I keep on getting a #UNPARSEABLE error. It works fine when it references only 1 sheet but I need to sum…","categoryID":321,"dateInserted":"2023-07-20T17:37:32+00:00","dateUpdated":null,"dateLastComment":"2023-07-20T18:10:31+00:00","insertUserID":163722,"insertUser":{"userID":163722,"name":"John C0","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/John%20C0","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/defaultavatar\/nWRMFRX6I99I6.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-07-20T18:10:00+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭"},"updateUserID":null,"lastUserID":163722,"lastUser":{"userID":163722,"name":"John C0","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/John%20C0","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/defaultavatar\/nWRMFRX6I99I6.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-07-20T18:10:00+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭"},"pinned":false,"pinLocation":null,"closed":false,"sink":false,"countComments":2,"countViews":35,"score":null,"hot":3379752483,"url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/107872\/using-sum-function-on-2-referring-pages","canonicalUrl":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/107872\/using-sum-function-on-2-referring-pages","format":"Rich","lastPost":{"discussionID":107872,"commentID":386231,"name":"Re: Using Sum function on 2 referring pages","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/comment\/386231#Comment_386231","dateInserted":"2023-07-20T18:10:31+00:00","insertUserID":163722,"insertUser":{"userID":163722,"name":"John C0","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/John%20C0","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/defaultavatar\/nWRMFRX6I99I6.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-07-20T18:10:00+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":"2023-07-20T18:10:07+00:00","dateAnswered":"2023-07-20T17:56:18+00:00","acceptedAnswers":[{"commentID":386226,"body":"

=SUM({AAA Pet Services - Sign Ups Range 1}, {AAA Pet Services - Sign Ups Option 2 Range 1})<\/p>

A comma is needed between each range to sum.<\/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":[]}],"initialPaging":{"nextURL":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/api\/v2\/discussions?page=2&categoryID=321&includeChildCategories=1&type%5B0%5D=Question&excludeHiddenCategories=1&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":4868,"limit":3},"title":"Trending in Smartsheet Basics","subtitle":null,"description":null,"noCheckboxes":true,"containerOptions":[],"discussionOptions":[]}">

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