Sharing and Collaboration

Sharing and Collaboration

Share your work with others.

Work with multiple people on a sheet at the same time

Stay aware when multiple people collaborate on the same sheet simultaneously. 

Share a report as an attachment in email

You can share information collected in a report as an attachment to an email message....

Manually send an update request

Owners, Admins, and Editors with a Smartsheet account can create a manual update request....

Share sheet information in email

You have different sharing options: If you need to provide the recipients with a read-only version of the data, email one or more rows....

Share a Smartsheet attachment through email

The link in the email will expire after 30 days or after it's been clicked 100 times....

Publish a sheet, report, or dashboard

Publishing a sheet, report, or dashboard generates a unique URL that anyone can access without logging into Smartsheet and an iframe code that you can...

User Management

Asset ownership overview

When you create an asset, you automatically gain Owner permissions on it....

Sharing, Permissions, and User Types

Sharing permission levels and tasks

There are five permission levels in Smartsheet....

Information for free collaborators

If you've been shared to a sheet in Smartsheet for the first time, just select the link in the sharing notification to create a Smartsheet password....

Change Owner permissions of a sheet, report, or dashboard

Sheets, reports, or dashboards can only be transferred to a Smartsheet user. Before assigning Owner permissions to someone, share the item with them....

User types

User types designate what you can and can't do with your Smartsheet account.

Overview: Share sheets and reports

Add collaborators to your sheet or report. 

Sharing permissions on sheets, reports, or workspaces

✓ = includedx = not includedView all sheet data, including comments✓✓✓✓✓xEdit unlocked rows and columns in a sheet**xx✓✓✓xEdit cells in locked colum...

Features for free users

Paying, licensed users can manage work (create, build, orchestrate, control, automate) and non-paid, free users can collaborate (view, edit where appl...

​​​​​​​Request access to an item

If you try opening a Smartsheet item, but can't, you might need to request access to that item....

Remove a collaborator or change permission levels

In the top right corner of the item, select Share....

Set a default sharing view

For example, you can set a default view or have newly shared collaborators open a sheet directly to Card View with a filter applied that shows them on...

Transfer all items for a single user to a new owner

You can transfer all sheets, reports, and dashboards owned by a licensed user....

Request Owner permissions for a sheet, report, or dashboard

Sheets and reports can only be transferred to users on your plan. To request access to a sheet, you should: Browse to the item....

Forms

Validate information in forms

With form validation, you can add real-time validation to your forms in the form builder to help you gather consistent, error-free data. 

Collect information with a form

Create and share forms to gather and organize information within Smartsheet.

Manage form display and submission options

Customize your forms in Smartsheet by changing the form layout, show or hide Smartsheet branding, and add security settings.

Manage and distribute a form

Once a form is created, you will manage it from the Form Manager.

Use conditional logic to streamline form submissions

With conditional logic in forms, you can ensure that people using the form will only answer the questions that are relevant to their subm

Error when accessing form

In some situations, you may attempt to open a Smartsheet form and receive one of the following error messages: The form you are attempting to access i...

Add items to a form

If the field exists on your sheet, select the field in the left panel. Or drag and drop it into the exact location you want....

Edit or remove fields in a form

To start editing form fields, go to the form builder. Select Form > Manage Forms. Open the form you need to customize....

Best practices for scalable data collection in Smartsheet

Use Smartsheet forms to collect key data for a variety of different projects. You can accept numerous submissions over time or all at once....

Use a URL query string to prefill default values on a form

When someone accesses a form with a custom link, information from the URL pre-populates fields in the form....

FAQ: Smartsheet forms

Use Smartsheet forms to improve the way you collect and act on data.

Use mobile forms when you’re offline

All plans have access to offline forms. On Enterprise plans, a Smartsheet System Admin can deactivate the feature in Admin Center....

Customize the appearance of a form

For an image background, you can use a .png, .gif, or .jpg file up to 5MB in size....

Workspaces

Create or delete a workspace

You can manage people's access to items in a workspace....

Share a workspace

Workspace Sharing: Enhancing Collaboration by Managing Access and Permission Levels

Manage items in a workspace

Managing Workspace content: Creation, Movement, and Deletion of items for optimized collaboration

Transfer the ownership of a workspace

Transferring Ownership of Workspaces: A Guide to Smooth Transition of Responsibilities in Smartsheet

Copy a folder or workspace

Streamlining Projects: Simplified Guide to Copying Folders and Workspaces in Smartsheet

Issue: Unable to move items to or from a workspace

Here are some reasons why you can't move items: You don't have the correct permissions....

Share collections in workspaces

Share collections in workspacesYou must be the Admin of the workspace the collection lives in to share that collection....

Add items to collections in workspaces

Open the Workspace panel. Select the collection where you want to add items or create a new one....

Create and edit collections in workspaces

Create a new collectionTo create a new collection, follow these steps: Open the Workspace panelSelect CollectionsSelect Add Collection (+ icon) ...

Collections in workspaces overview

With collections, you can curate the selection of Smartsheet items and external content you want to share with your team....

File library sharing permissions

Users in the workspace can interact with files in the file library based on their sharing permissions....

Proofing

Add a proof to a sheet or report

Hover over the row in your sheet or report where you want to add the proof. Right-click that row and select Proofs....

Respond to a proofing request

Proofing review requests include a link that takes you to a review page in a new browser tab....

Collaborate on a proof

You can invite anyone with a valid email address to review your proof, including users or people outside of your organization....

Track the status of a proof

On the right feature bar, select Proofs. At the top of the Proofs pane, select More > Create Proof Info Column....

Convert an attachment to a proof

With Smartsheet proofs, you and your team can quickly review and approve a variety of content.

Conversations

Row-level and sheet-level Conversations

In the Conversation panel, you can either check all conversations or filter the view to conversations at the sheet level or selected row....

Targeted conversations using comments

If you have access to the sheet, you can view or print comments....

Using @mentions in comments

When you tag a person in a comment, they’ll receive a notification with a link to the comment in the sheet....

Troubleshoot issues with @mention email comments

Sometimes, you'll see one of these errors when you reply to an email message generated by the @mention....

Attach files to a comment

Select Attachments ....

Take action on a comment

In the Conversations panel of a sheet or report, the comment menu will present additional actions you can perform based

Create a new comment or reply to a comment

Once you’re in the Conversations panel in a sheet or report, or Comments section in a workspace, you can do the following tasks: Add a commentReply to...