Create, share, and apply custom themes to dashboards

Use customized themes to personalize your dashboards based on your needs and using your branding. Create your own themes and share them with others in your organization.

Who can use this?

Plans:

  • Pro
  • Business
  • Enterprise

Permissions:

  • Owner
  • Admin

Find out if this capability is included in Smartsheet Regions or Smartsheet Gov.

Create a custom theme

If you’re a dashboard Admin, follow these steps to create and share your own custom themes.  

Once you apply a custom theme, any previous widget styling resets.

You can create up to nine custom themes per dashboard.

Here's how to create a custom theme:

  1. Open your preferred dashboard.
  2. Select the Edit (pencil) icon.
  3. Select the Dashboard theme (color palette) icon.

  4. Under Custom themes, select Create theme > Create new. The Edit theme panel appears.

    You can optionally base your theme on an existing one. Here you'd select  Create theme > Import and edit it.

  5. In the Edit theme panel, customize your canvas and widget colors, chart series, theme name, and description.

    To preview your custom theme, select the back arrow to the left of Edit theme.

  6. Select Save (top right of window) to save the theme to your dashboard.

To use your own brand colors, modify the Hex color code to match the color you want. The Theme section in the color picker includes all your theme colors, so you can manually customize a widget, too.

Create custom themes for dashboards


The mobile app doesn't support custom themes.

Share a custom theme

You can share a custom theme by exporting it to a file and sharing the file through your preferred channels. 

You can import your custom theme into other dashboards.

Export a theme

To export a customized theme:

  1. Open a dashboard.
  2. Select the Edit (pencil) icon.
  3. To access your custom themes, select the Dashboard theme (color palette) icon. The Dashboard theme panel appears.
  4. In the Custom themes section, select the theme to export.
  5. Use the three-dot menu to display the options and select Export. Smartsheet downloads your theme to your computer as a .json file.
  6. Locate the .json file in the Downloads folder on your computer.
  7. Share your custom theme file with whoever you like.

Alternatively, you can export a theme from the Edit theme panel. Select the three-dot menu and select Export. A file download begins automatically.

Export custom themes for dashboards

Import a theme

Follow these steps to import a custom theme.

  1. Open your preferred dashboard.
  2. Select the Edit (pencil) icon.
  3. Select the Dashboard theme (color palette) icon.
  4. Under Custom themes, select Create theme.
  5. Use the options displayed to choose whether to Create new or Import.
  6. Select the .json file from your computer.
  7. The theme now appears in your Current themes section and is ready to use.

Alternatively, import a theme from the Edit theme panel. Select the three-dot menu and select Import.

Import custom themes for dashboards

Duplicate a theme

To duplicate a custom theme:

  1. Open the Dashboard theme panel.
  2. Hover over the theme you want to duplicate.
  3. Select the three-dot menu.
  4. Select Duplicate.
Duplicate custom themes for dashboards

 

Delete a theme

To delete a custom theme:

  1. Open the Dashboard theme panel.
  2. Hover over the theme you want to delete.
  3. Select the three-dot menu.
  4. Select Delete.

Delete custom themes for dashboards
 

Keep in mind you can’t delete a custom theme if it’s the current theme of your dashboard.
 

Cant delete current custom theme dashboards