Contact List For Approval Workflow
Hi all, this might be a simple question, however I'm a little stumped.
When creating a workflow and choosing "Send to specific people", where is Smartsheet pulling the options for a name to choose? In my screenshot, it is showing individuals with their name & email address and some with just email address? We have a column for "Requestor Email Address" in our form and that has everyone's name & email address so I'm not sure where Smartsheet is pulling just the email address. I'm new to my company so I am cleaning up all of our sheets and I'd like to have one consistent list of people for contacts. Thanks!
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Dale Murphy ✭✭✭✭✭✭@BristolCVNSmartSheet says:
At the risk of not answering your question, wouldn't it be better if your workflow directed the update tocontacts in a cellrather than specific people?
If you need an update from the requestor, you could have the update request go to the person whose email is in that column.
dm
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BristolCVN ✭✭
Thanks Dale!
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Attempt two: can you update your trigger into \"When Rows Are Changed\"<\/p>
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<\/img><\/a>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\nThen, delete all of these erroneous rows and hit save.<\/p>
Finally, add \"No Show\" into like three rows. Save your sheet, and reload (automation takes a second to run completely). <\/p>
Is your \"Attendance\" column set up as a dropdown or as a text?<\/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":[]},{"discussionID":112207,"type":"question","name":"access to sheet","excerpt":"I want specific fields but I don't want a link to the sheet.... If someone has the link to the sheet would they even be able to access it?","snippet":"I want specific fields but I don't want a link to the sheet.... If someone has the link to the sheet would they even be able to access it?","categoryID":321,"dateInserted":"2023-10-26T15:25:53+00:00","dateUpdated":null,"dateLastComment":"2023-10-26T16:09:50+00:00","insertUserID":166642,"insertUser":{"userID":166642,"name":"JenaW","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/JenaW","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/defaultavatar\/nWRMFRX6I99I6.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-10-27T13:27:41+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭"},"updateUserID":null,"lastUserID":142964,"lastUser":{"userID":142964,"name":"Ray Lindstrom","title":"","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Ray%20Lindstrom","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/userpics\/5Y0KP6UKIBTU\/nY3615V0DPRZV.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-10-27T13:55:13+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭✭✭✭✭"},"pinned":false,"pinLocation":null,"closed":false,"sink":false,"countComments":3,"countViews":36,"score":null,"hot":3396672343,"url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/112207\/access-to-sheet","canonicalUrl":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/112207\/access-to-sheet","format":"Rich","lastPost":{"discussionID":112207,"commentID":401859,"name":"Re: access to sheet","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/comment\/401859#Comment_401859","dateInserted":"2023-10-26T16:09:50+00:00","insertUserID":142964,"insertUser":{"userID":142964,"name":"Ray Lindstrom","title":"","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Ray%20Lindstrom","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/userpics\/5Y0KP6UKIBTU\/nY3615V0DPRZV.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-10-27T13:55:13+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,"image":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/GCNDC3R4VSAE\/h.png","urlSrcSet":{"10":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=scale-down,width=10\/https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/GCNDC3R4VSAE\/h.png","300":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=scale-down,width=300\/https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/GCNDC3R4VSAE\/h.png","800":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=scale-down,width=800\/https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/GCNDC3R4VSAE\/h.png","1200":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=scale-down,width=1200\/https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/GCNDC3R4VSAE\/h.png","1600":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=scale-down,width=1600\/https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/GCNDC3R4VSAE\/h.png"},"alt":"h.png"},"attributes":{"question":{"status":"accepted","dateAccepted":"2023-10-26T16:01:38+00:00","dateAnswered":"2023-10-26T15:58:49+00:00","acceptedAnswers":[{"commentID":401852,"body":"
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