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Imported Contacts not 'syncing'

Ed Perkins
edited 12/09/19 inArchived 2015 Posts

I imported an excel spreadsheet that has a column of names.

The column was imported as text. I changed the column property to Contact list.

As I add people to my account contacts, the rest of the cells in that column with the same name are not sync'ing (?). Smartsheet wants me to add another contact entry.

Is there a way to get Smart Sheet to recognize a newly added contact by sweeping through the selected contact column? If not, that what be a great function to have, even if I have to push a button to activate it.

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  • Travis
    Travis Employee

    Hi Ed, adding users to your Smartsheet Contacts will not change data in your sheets. The quickest way to change the name for multiple tasks will be to filter the sheet to only show rows assigned to the user, change the name for the first row, then drag fill the new name down your sheet.

  • Thanks Travis. In my case this won't be too bad of a fix, BUT I have other things I want to import that have contact names columns where this solution would be very unacceptable. There really needs to be an option on the the column header for a contact list that would 'verify' the all names in the column and hook it together with the main contacts. There also needs to be a way to import Smartsheet Contacts from an Excel spreadsheet.

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Hi @Ashleigh<\/a> <\/p>

You could use the predecessor column: set the Type to \"Finish-to-Start\" and make the Lag 0 for the next day and so on, for the row you want. You'll need to enable dependencies on the sheet. You can check that by going to the Gantt view and then clicking the settings wheel under the share button.<\/p>

I hope that helps.<\/p>

Matt<\/p>"}]}},"status":{"statusID":3,"name":"Accepted","state":"closed","recordType":"discussion","recordSubType":"question"},"bookmarked":false,"unread":false,"category":{"categoryID":322,"name":"Formulas and Functions","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/formulas-and-functions","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":254,"urlcode":"Formulas","name":"Formulas"},{"tagID":281,"urlcode":"Support","name":"Support"},{"tagID":334,"urlcode":"automations","name":"Automations"}]},{"discussionID":107146,"type":"question","name":"How to get average # Workdays by Contract Type","excerpt":"I'm stumped and hoping the community can help. Within Sheet Summary of my master grid, I am trying to create an average formula that calculates the average # of workdays by contract type within a specific month--in this case, June 2023. This data will be used in a Monthly Dashboard. For example: \"NDA\/CDA (Non-Disclosure…","snippet":"I'm stumped and hoping the community can help. Within Sheet Summary of my master grid, I am trying to create an average formula that calculates the average # of workdays by…","categoryID":322,"dateInserted":"2023-06-30T15:56:12+00:00","dateUpdated":"2023-06-30T16:35:53+00:00","dateLastComment":"2023-06-30T18:56:28+00:00","insertUserID":159351,"insertUser":{"userID":159351,"name":"Joan156","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Joan156","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/defaultavatar\/nWRMFRX6I99I6.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-06-30T18:57:45+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭"},"updateUserID":91566,"lastUserID":161714,"lastUser":{"userID":161714,"name":"Carson Penticuff","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Carson%20Penticuff","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/userpics\/B0Q390EZX8XK\/nBGT0U1689CN6.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-07-03T02:16:45+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭✭✭✭"},"pinned":false,"pinLocation":null,"closed":false,"sink":false,"countComments":8,"countViews":50,"score":null,"hot":3376296760,"url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/107146\/how-to-get-average-workdays-by-contract-type","canonicalUrl":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/107146\/how-to-get-average-workdays-by-contract-type","format":"Rich","lastPost":{"discussionID":107146,"commentID":383393,"name":"Re: How to get average # Workdays by Contract Type","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/comment\/383393#Comment_383393","dateInserted":"2023-06-30T18:56:28+00:00","insertUserID":161714,"insertUser":{"userID":161714,"name":"Carson Penticuff","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Carson%20Penticuff","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/userpics\/B0Q390EZX8XK\/nBGT0U1689CN6.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-07-03T02:16:45+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭✭✭✭"}},"breadcrumbs":[{"name":"Home","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/"},{"name":"Formulas and Functions","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/formulas-and-functions"}],"groupID":null,"statusID":3,"image":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/NS3PAA2S9KQH\/screenshot-for-smartsheet-community.jpg","urlSrcSet":{"10":"","300":"","800":"","1200":"","1600":""},"alt":"Screenshot for SmartSheet Community.jpg"},"attributes":{"question":{"status":"accepted","dateAccepted":"2023-06-30T18:57:58+00:00","dateAnswered":"2023-06-30T18:56:28+00:00","acceptedAnswers":[{"commentID":383393,"body":"

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