Please enhance Column Contacts and Form Contacts by allowing Groups to be used!

Seth Morth

I could go on about it, but there are some basic “table-stakes” sorts of features that need to be incorporated into how column contact lists are handled within Smartsheet. First and foremost, please, for the 37th time, allow us to drag a group in and create items contacts within a column contact list.

ALSO, please make it so that we can COPY a column with Contacts loaded and use it again in the same sheet!

Neither should be a premium feature or require an API buildup! This would have saved mehoursso far this year, and could easily save me more! ...Do the same thing for Forms please!

Shlomi

Hi,

I want to add Group of contact into Assigned To column,

Tammy Luther

I am also wanting to add a group within the assigned to.

The great thing on groups is you don't have to micro manage a change in personnel.

I see no updates on this since August of 2022. Will be addressed ASAP.

It is a basic concept, so any feedback would be appreciated.

Tammy Luther

@Seth Morth

were you able to identify a work around or received any updates on this yet?

Seth Morth

Hello@Tammy Luther

No feedback from Smartsheet on this one, so you will definitely want to tender it as a new user request to bring it to the forefront.

• Seth

Tobias Krause

in order to use Smartsheet to automatically inform/Alert multiple users about a specific line item, it would be great to insert a user group name into a cell in a contact column.

MOC

It would be great to have the ability to assign a group to a contact list. I have a few lists with departments that are constantly evolving, having to revisit any sheet that may have had that department members in a contact list is a challenge. If we were able to simply update a group, and have that track to any and all contact lists across all sheets, it would be a more consistent user experience.

Roni R

This is basic User Management need. Drop down selections for contacts should be tied to groups so that when I add a user to a group, they automatically become an option for a particular drop down (role). Immensely useful to avoid manual work and isn't that what Smartsheet is about?

Stu Benoff

我同意将av的改进过程ailable if this enhancement is implemented, and, I would like to request that if this is implemented, that the Group Management function be expanded so that a group owner can only manage the contents of their groups. As it stands now, anyone with a group admin role can alter all/any defined groups. If groups are granted the additional functionality in this request, I suspect that they would be used more and therefore highlighting the need for the additional feature that I have included. Thanks.

S. Shotts

I would like to add groups also. I create sheets and forms and frequently need to add all of the members of our unit to contact lists. It takes time to add 60+ people one at a time each time I create a new sheet for something. It would be nice to be able to create a contact list like I have in Outlook in Smartsheet for various groups. I talked to multiple people about this a the conference last year and then had to resubmit this request and still never heard anything back.

I am looking at potentially building sheets that will require contacts throughout our division and I do not look forward to trying to potentially add ~100 one at a time as I work through these projects.

Dan Cliff

This would be valuable for us too, if we had the ability to define who should be selectable in a contact column based on user groups it would simplify much when we onboard new team members.