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Smartsheet Control Center: Blueprints at a glance
In Control Center, you can create a blueprint to ensure that your team consistently completes the same tasks, tracks the same metrics, and reports on the same items across projects.
Who can use this?
Plans:
- Smartsheet Advance Package
Blueprints also provide flexibility. You can create blueprints that:
- Include options for fast track projects or projects that have a less pressing timeline.
- Follow agile development processes or those that follow waterfall processes.
You can modify your blueprint as your project needs change.
What's a blueprint?
A blueprint is a set of templates you define that help you automate the creation of new projects.
A blueprint can include the following:
- Sheets, reports, and dashboards that you can build directly in Smartsheet and store in your blueprint source folder. These sheets can include profile data for defining projects and calculating status metrics.
- An optional intake sheet that lists your projects and helps manage when they’re created.
Store this in your Admin workspace, not the blueprint source folder.
- An optional blueprint summary sheet that stores data you use for reporting.
Store it in your Admin workspace, not in the blueprint source folder.
A dynamic report scope that you can enable in your blueprint to include or exclude specific templates in each project, even when those live in different workspaces.
Once you’ve created these items, run the blueprint builder to create the blueprint.
When you provision a project containing a dashboard with a shortcut widget or a web content widget that includes a form URL, the form URL gets updated if the form is connected to a sheet that’s a part of the blueprint template. The form URL remains the same if the form is connected to a sheet that isn’t part of the blueprint template.