Better automation design: visual queues

Ian Cooper

I have a love/hate relationship with Smartsheet automation. On one hand, the automation has saved me countless hours of work. On the other hand, the way the Automation for a sheet pops out and covers up the data is maddening!

Having the automation pop up in a separate, re-sizeable window would be awesome. Taking it a step further, changing the visuals of the automation window to more closely resemble those used in process mapping would make life so much easier.

As it stands today, an individual must read through the automation rules. That becomes a major task when you inherit sheets from people that have moved on. Visual queues would make it so much easier to review and edit.