Export Report Using Data Shuttle

Sarah123
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I'm trying to setup an export of a report using Data Shuttle in Smartsheet (to export it to Google Sheets so that I can combine it with another of my reports) and when I type in the name of the report in Data Shuttle it finds the report but won't let me select it. If I click through the folders for the report I can't find any reports listed. Is there a limitation on using Data Shuttle to export a report? I want to have only certain columns pull into a sheet (I have too many columns and rows to do a link to a cell and there is no way for me to do a DataMesh as I would have to essentially recreate the sheet I'm pulling from). If there's another way to be able to refer to a report that would work too (but I'm not seeing that as a possibility from my searches so far).

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  • Genevieve P.
    Genevieve P. Employee Admin
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    Hi@Sarah123

    Currently Data Shuttle workflows can only be built with Sheets (not Reports), as you've found.

    You can select specific columns from the sheet in theMappingtab of the Workflow, eliminating any unnecessary columns. You can also setFiltersin the workflow to mimic any filters you had on the Report as well. See:Set filters to control which rows are offloaded

    Cheers,

    Genevieve

  • Can you link to Smartsheet? e.g. the source is a sheet and the target is also a sheet?

  • Genevieve P.
    Genevieve P. Employee Admin

    Hi@Cristian

    You canuse anoffloadworkflow to offload data from one sheet into a CSV file that attaches to a different Smartsheet sheet, then use a separate上传workflow to upload data from that new CSV file into your second sheet.

    Depending on what you're looking to do, you may want to check out DataMeshinstead, see:DataMesh

    Cheers,

    Genevieve

  • Sarah123
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    @Genevieve P.is there any way to setup an automated export of a report instead of manually going into the report to export?

  • Genevieve P.
    Genevieve P. Employee Admin

    Hi@Sarah123

    You can set up a recurring email that exports a Report into anExcel file or PDF, see here!

    Cheers,

    Genevieve

  • @Genevieve P.is there any insight on adding report selection capability to data shuttle this would be so helpful!

  • Genevieve P.
    Genevieve P. Employee Admin

    Hi@mmccar29

    I see you Voted on this Product Feedback & Idea thread, here:

    Hi,<\/p>

    I have a Dynamic report that gathers information from the same sheet across a number of projects and displays the lines that meet a certain filter criteria. Currently I have to export this to an excel file and add it as an attachment to the sheet that I want updated by the Data shuttle workflow. It would be good to point Data Shuttle to the report and design and offload workflow to do the first manual step.<\/p>

    Cheers,<\/p>

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    Cheers,

    Genevieve

I understand. Unfortunately, there is no other option that I see. One thing to make it easier for you to add the name is to have a helper column in the source sheet with a formula to identify duplicates. If there is a record with no duplicate (i.e., a new name added), you can get notified through a workflow and use that to add the name to your metric sheet.<\/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":106975,"type":"question","name":"Case sensitivity when using data mesh","excerpt":"I set up a Data Mesh that is working quite well. Nurses enter their credential information and we use DataMesh to add other human resources information of record - including manager's email. The DataMesh is keying of of the common field of User ID. We noticed that for many of the nurses the match didn't work and also…","snippet":"I set up a Data Mesh that is working quite well. Nurses enter their credential information and we use DataMesh to add other human resources information of record - including…","categoryID":343,"dateInserted":"2023-06-27T19:39:23+00:00","dateUpdated":null,"dateLastComment":"2023-06-27T20:09:07+00:00","insertUserID":114017,"insertUser":{"userID":114017,"name":"Jacqueline Ennis","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Jacqueline%20Ennis","photoUrl":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a\/AGNmyxZA0IOt6rrnETj3_ATzn0g7JjbJTEyOyIfrNKKb=s96-c","dateLastActive":"2023-06-27T20:08:06+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭"},"updateUserID":null,"lastUserID":114017,"lastUser":{"userID":114017,"name":"Jacqueline Ennis","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Jacqueline%20Ennis","photoUrl":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a\/AGNmyxZA0IOt6rrnETj3_ATzn0g7JjbJTEyOyIfrNKKb=s96-c","dateLastActive":"2023-06-27T20:08:06+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭"},"pinned":false,"pinLocation":null,"closed":false,"sink":false,"countComments":3,"countViews":21,"score":null,"hot":3375793110,"url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/106975\/case-sensitivity-when-using-data-mesh","canonicalUrl":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/106975\/case-sensitivity-when-using-data-mesh","format":"Rich","lastPost":{"discussionID":106975,"commentID":382692,"name":"Re: Case sensitivity when using data mesh","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/comment\/382692#Comment_382692","dateInserted":"2023-06-27T20:09:07+00:00","insertUserID":114017,"insertUser":{"userID":114017,"name":"Jacqueline Ennis","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Jacqueline%20Ennis","photoUrl":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a\/AGNmyxZA0IOt6rrnETj3_ATzn0g7JjbJTEyOyIfrNKKb=s96-c","dateLastActive":"2023-06-27T20:08:06+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭"}},"breadcrumbs":[{"name":"Home","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/"},{"name":"Using Smartsheet","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/using-smartsheet"},{"name":"Add Ons and Integrations","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/apps-and-integrations"}],"groupID":null,"statusID":3,"attributes":{"question":{"status":"accepted","dateAccepted":"2023-06-27T20:09:23+00:00","dateAnswered":"2023-06-27T20:09:03+00:00","acceptedAnswers":[{"commentID":382691,"body":"

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