Automated Workflows

Automated Workflows

Automate processes with visual workflows

Here is an example of a powerful automation in a single workflow: A technical writer finishes a rough draft and marks their task as complete in Smar...

Overview: Automated workflows

The workflow template gallery makes it easy to create workflows for common actions....

Ensure Continuous Project Execution With Recurring Automation

You can schedule a recurring workflow to ensure that your workflow runs for the rows that meet your conditions on a regular basis....

Remind yourself about specific tasks

To create a row-level reminder: Select the bell icon in the row action indicator column ....

Trigger frequent, change-based automations in batches

Before you begin If your workflow is set to Hourly, Daily, or Weekly, you cannot use any of these action types: Clear cell value Assign people Re...

Request approvals from stakeholders

You can request multiple approvals and create an order for those approvals....

Automatically request updates on tasks

Build the workflow from scratch or use the template provided in the workflow gallery and customize it to your needs....

Customize the content of your alerts and requests

To use dynamic placeholders in a change-based workflow, you must set the Trigger block to When triggered....

Condition blocks: Filter what your automated workflows send

Create conditional logic in a condition block by clicking and to toggle between the two states: Needs to meet only one condition (or) Needs to meet...

Action blocks: Specify what kind of automation is triggered

With an action block, you can choose what type of automation you want your workflow to perform when triggered....

Create a time-based automated workflow

In the trigger block of an automated workflow, you can trigger actions before, after, or on a specific date by specifying a date field....

Trigger Blocks: Define When Your Workflow is Executed

When creating automation workflows, you can define the criteria that will trigger your workflow....

Permissions required to create and edit automated workflows

Use the table below as a reference for what you can do with automated workflows depending on your permissions level....

Blocks and Paths: Anatomy of an Automated Workflow

Building an automated workflow is similar to building a flowchart....

Notification Center: Receive alerts directly within Smartsheet

You always receive notifications through Notification Center....

Overview of automated notifications sent via Smartsheet

For example, you create a workflow to trigger alerts when someone edits the sheet you own....

Configure how you receive notifications from Smartsheet

You can configure your personal settings to receive notifications in the Notifications Center or from these channels: Email: Receive notifications ...

Best Practices for Working With the Move Rows Action

As you work with the the Move rows action, there are certain behaviors and best practices you'll want to be aware of....

Control who is notified about alerts and requests

You can control who can receive alerts (account and sheet level) or requests based on a person's relati

Approval requests: Automatically request sign-off on work items

Approval requests let you automatically ask someone to approve or deny an item on your sheet....

Manually run a workflow

You can run an active workflow at any time. This can be useful if you want to run a workflow and see the results of changes you have made....

Use the template gallery to create an automated workflow

With the sheet open: In the upper-left corner of your sheet, select Automation > Create workflow from template....

Build a workflow to automatically generate documents

Before you set up automatic document generation, you need a fillable PDF or DocuSign mapping....

Clear the contents of a cell with the clear cell value action

Use the Clear cell value action to delete the contents of the chosen field when a workflow is triggered....

Change the value of a cell in an automated workflow

Cell type Values you can input Text/Number A text or number value with a 4,000-character limit....

Assign People in an Automated Workflow

With the Assign people action in automated workflows, you can add an email address or contact to a contact column in a sheet with specific triggers....

Set the current date with the Record a date action

Select the Automation > Create a Workflow. Inside the workflow editor, scroll down to the action selector and choose Record a date....

View and manage automated workflows

At the top left of the sheet, select Automation > Manage workflows....