Smartsheet Developer Documentation Now Enhanced with OpenAPI

Published on 02 April 2021 by Kevin Fansler

Say hello to our brand new Smartsheet API documentation! Today, we are very excited to announce that we are updating our API documentation…

Introducing Webhooks for Columns

Published on 27 February 2020 by Agnes Wong

If you currently use Webhooks or you want to be notified when specific column data changes, this update is for you! Webhooks provide a way…

Search Result Payloads Are Changing

Published on 07 January 2020 by Kevin Fansler

If you use row numbers in search results, you need to read this post. Beginning March 1, 2020, the Smartsheet API is deprecating row numbers…

Leveling Up - Understanding Multi-contact and Multi-picklist Columns in the Smartsheet API

Published on 14 October 2019 by Kevin Fansler

Smartsheet likes to have it both ways: It’s important to keep your implementations from breaking (aka backwards compatibility), but there…

Now Supporting .NET Core

Published on 23 July 2019 by Kevin Fansler

Good news for cross-platform developers! The Smartsheet C# SDK now supports .NET Standard (aka .NET Core) as well as .NET Framework. So now…

Smart Semantic Versioning for Smartsheet SDKs

Published on 16 May 2019 by Kevin Fansler

Smartsheet has a new versioning strategy for our SDKs. It will help us stay better organized about what features work in which SDK…

Bamboo Product Release

Published on 19 February 2019 by Taylor Krusen

The Bamboo release brings about a significant improvement in time-based Workflows. Specifically, triggering a Smartsheet workflow based on a…

Demystifying Query Parameters in the Smartsheet API

Published on 06 February 2019 by Taylor Krusen

Ready to learn something simple that will have a major impact on your Smartsheet API integrations? Stop parsing huge payloads and start…

Smartsheet API Deprecating TLS 1.0 Support

Published on 31 January 2019 by Scott McAllister

Smartsheet uses Transport Layer Security (TLS) to provide privacy and data integrity for its API users. TLS is the most widely deployed…

Find Columns Quicker with a Column Map

Published on 11 January 2019 by Scott McAllister

Let's be honest. Finding the right column when you're using the Smartsheet API can be tedious. The API gives you an array of column objects…

Wheel Product Release

Published on 19 December 2018 by Scott McAllister

The cycle of product releases at Smartsheet has been fairly constant in 2018, with each update coming around like the spokes on a wheel…

Transistor Product Release

Published on 19 November 2018 by Taylor Krusen

This month’s theme is Transistor; a semiconductor with three connections used to amplify or switch electronic signals. While Smartsheet did…

Telescope Product Update

Published on 02 October 2018 by Scott McAllister

"As a species throughout history, looking up to the sky has been something accessible to absolutely everyone and the sky has inspired art…

Radio Product Release

Published on 14 September 2018 by Taylor Krusen

Before internet radio, you had to actually find the right station—twisting knobs to scroll past white noise until a channel came through…

Teamwork Leads to Active Refreshing Sheets

Published on 14 August 2018 by Scott McAllister

Smartsheet Engineering has fostered a culture where the customer experience is king, and every member of the team takes pride in making sure…

API Updates: New Import Endpoints

Published on 25 July 2018 by Scott McAllister

The Smartsheet API recently added new endpoints for importing CSV or XLSX data into a new sheet, and the SDKs for Java , C# , Python…

Piano Product Update

Published on 23 July 2018 by Scott McAllister

Cue the music! It's time for another Smartsheet product update, and this one is code - named Piano. The feature that we'd like to highlight…

Hot and Awesome: Kansas City Developer Conference

Published on 19 July 2018 by Taylor Krusen

There are three things that Kansas City unequivocally gets right: BBQ , women in tech , and KCDC . The BBQ is self explanatory (or you…

Phonograph Product Release

Published on 11 June 2018 by Taylor Krusen

This month’s release is named Phonograph. The phonograph, invented by Thomas Edison, was the first device that allowed a person to record…

Lightbulb Product Update

Published on 18 May 2018 by Scott McAllister

The latest update to the Smartsheet application, code - named Lightbulb, focused on some incremental changes to the Smartsheet UI. One of…

New Employees Love Hack the Sheet

Published on 03 May 2018 by Scott McAllister

Another successful Hack the Sheet has sailed into the Smartsheet history books. A record number of teams produced impressive projects…

Hack the Sheet: Smartsheet's Internal Hackathon

Published on 13 April 2018 by Scott McAllister

Every nine months or so the Smartsheet Engineering and Product teams step away from their regularly scheduled tasks, and take a crack at…

Python SDK: Upgrade to 1.3

Published on 11 April 2018 by Scott McAllister

The following message is for everyone using the Smartsheet Python SDK. Due to security concerns you will need to be using version 1.3 (or…

Compass Product Release

Published on 09 April 2018 by Taylor Krusen

The Compass release includes some very exciting changes for Smartsheet users (some of which are being released a little later this month so…

Jazzcon.Tech: Down in New Orleans

Published on 30 March 2018 by Scott McAllister

In the South Land there's a city; way down on the river. Where the food is tasty, and all the coders deliver. Down in New Orleans, between…

Clock Product Release

Published on 20 March 2018 by Scott McAllister

As Smartsheet has grown, the size of our customers has grown with us. Which means, from an engineering perspective, some solutions that…

Trip Report: DevNexus 2018

Published on 09 March 2018 by Taylor Krusen

DevNexus in Atlanta, GA is the second largest Java conference in North America. With 2,500+ attendees, the conference had 14 concurrent…

Under the Hood of Sheet Tweetr

Published on 16 February 2018 by Taylor Krusen

In this post we’ll take a look at the guts of Sheet Tweetr to see how everything works. This is a deeper dive than the intro article, API…

DeveloperWeek Hackathon 2018

Published on 14 February 2018 by Scott McAllister

Over the first weekend in February 675 hackers gathered to form over 165 teams at the Galvanize offices in San Francisco to participate in…

Camera Product Release

Published on 12 February 2018 by Taylor Krusen

The Camera release contains a highly - anticipated feature that we know will be very exciting for Smartsheet users. Dashboards now have a…

Abacus Product Release

Published on 06 February 2018 by Scott McAllister

A couple of weeks ago, Smartsheet pushed out a product update we called Abacus. It doesn't always happen that the code name for a release…

Smartsheet Sponsors Developer Week 2018 Hackathon

Published on 26 January 2018 by Scott McAllister

Developer Week 2018 is shaping up to be the largest developer expo+conference series in the world, offering the chance to mingle and learn…

Creating a Smartsheet OAuth Flow in Node.js

Published on 23 January 2018 by Taylor Krusen

This article will cover OAuth at a conceptual level—following the flow of information through the authentication process. The snippets of…

Smartsheet 2017 Feature Review

Published on 15 January 2018 by Scott McAllister

As Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader outlined in his article, Reflections on 2017 - Another Year of Practical Innovation , the Smartsheet…

Meltdown, Spectre and Smartsheet

Published on 05 January 2018 by Ted Neward

The Intel CPU bugs “Meltdown” and “Spectre” are generating angst  in the IT industry. While details are still emerging, what we’ve learned…

Smartsheet Product Update: Photon

Published on 20 December 2017 by Scott McAllister

Smartsheet's latest product release, code - named Photon, comes at the end of an eventful 2017 calendar year. As a company, we hosted Engage…

Smartsheet Releases Full JavaScript SDK

Published on 04 December 2017 by Taylor Krusen

Node developers, rejoice! Smartsheet’s full JavaScript SDK is officially released. The beta SDK has been available for a while now, but it…

API Sample App: Sheet Tweetr

Published on 21 November 2017 by Taylor Krusen

The Developer Relations team at Smartsheet uses Twitter to tell the world about our activities and what we are involved with. Between…

Introducing the Smartsheet Ruby SDK

Published on 11 November 2017 by Scott McAllister

Working with the Smartsheet API just got a whole lot easier for Rubyists! We're excited to announce the addition of the Smartsheet Ruby SDK…

Giving Back at Seattle GiveCamp

Published on 09 November 2017 by Scott McAllister

Smartsheet Engineering has a history of looking for opportunities to improve the community in which we work and live. Whether it's…

Facing Forward: Smartsheet at Grace Hopper

Published on 01 November 2017 by Scott McAllister

Early in October, nearly 20,000 women gathered in Orlando, Florida to support, inspire and share their professional journeys at the Grace…

Seattle Code Camp: A Place for Learners

Published on 18 September 2017 by Scott McAllister

To be a software developer is to be a constant learner. The amount of information that you need to know as a developer is always growing and…

Seattle Code Camp is Awesome and You Should Go!

Published on 07 September 2017 by Taylor Krusen

You Should go to Seattle Code Camp Smartsheet is excited to be participating in the 15th annual Seattle Code Camp held on the campus of…

Meeting in the Middle: Kansas City Developer's Conference

Published on 05 September 2017 by Scott McAllister

Smack dab in the middle of America's heartland is a conference that brings developers from all walks of life together. During the first week…

Event Report: Smartsheet Recruiting Event at Daniel's Broiler

Published on 28 August 2017 by Taylor Krusen

Last week (8/22/17), Smartsheet hosted a low - key recruiting event upstairs from our office at Daniel’s Broiler. The event was well…

On Culture

Published on 21 August 2017 by Ted Neward

After the events of the past week, Smartsheet’s engineering leaders felt the need to make a statement about the issues of free speech…

Open Sourcing a .NET World: .NET Fringe 2017

Published on 08 August 2017 by Garvice Eakins

A Java developer, a .NET developer, and a Node.js developer all walk into a bar. The .NET dev turns to the Java dev and says... No this isn…

Curiosity Built the App: The Creation of Smartsheet's Microsoft Teams Integration

Published on 10 July 2017 by Scott McAllister

The best software developers are always curious. And, here at Smartsheet that is no different. Our recent integration with Microsoft Teams…

Francis Lau Speaking at Big Data Bellevue Meetup

Published on 15 June 2017 by Scott McAllister

Our own Francis Lau will be the main speaker at the Big Data Bellevue (BDB) meeting on Wednesday, June 21. As Senior Director of Product…

C# SDK Updated to Version 2.2

Published on 12 June 2017 by Scott McAllister

We recently updated our C# SDK to version 2.2! This update includes added support for the following features: Updating comments Setting…

Growth Lessons Learned from a Productivity Platform and Developer Conference

Published on 07 February 2017 by Ted Neward

As the Director of Developer Relations here at Smartsheet, a big part of my job (and the team I’m building out) is to attend and speak at…

What Makes Smartsheet a Better Place to Work: Q&A with Ted Neward

Published on 03 January 2017 by Kelly Anthony

Ted Neward , internationally - acclaimed conference speaker, author, CTO and more, recently joined Smartsheet to build out a developer…

Smartsheet Hosts Google I/O Extended, Brings Developers Together

Published by Andy Lientz on 25 May 2016

Smartsheet is continuously looking for ways to work with our strategic partners to build the knowledge of our developer base. Investing in…

Getting started with the Smartsheet API

Published by Kim Brandl on 04 February 2016

Looking to build an integration using the Smartsheet API, but not sure exactly where to start? Simply follow these five steps, and you’ll be…

Smartsheet API Best Practices

Published by Kim Brandl on 02 October 2015

In the midst designing and building an API integration, it’s easy to become so focused on the details of operations, attributes, and…

Reduce Time Spent Collecting Signatures with Smartsheet and DocuSign

Published on 28 August 2015 by Developer Relations

Remember how time consuming the document signing process used to be? You would create the document, print out multiple copies, physically…

Picking a Cloud Log Management Service

Published on 22 January 2015 by Brett Batie

One great thing about SaaS log management services is that they can be setup in a matter of minutes. This was the primary reason I started…

API Access - HTTPS cert switch to SHA256

Published on 06 January 2015 by Developer Relations

HTTPS Security Certificate Switch from SHA - 1 to SHA - 256 hash algorithms Security best practices are always evolving - it is how we…

The Smartsheet App Gallery Is Here!

Published by Alex Vorobiev on 02 June 2014

Today, we’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Smartsheet App Gallery , our official directory of apps and integrations between…

Survivor: API - Bitmasks Get Voted Off the Island

In January, I joined Smartsheet as the new developer for the API, replacing Kyan, who has moved on to help spearhead the new Platform team…

Dude, SDKs are critical

Published by Alex Vorobiev on 24 March 2014

In the early days of the Smartsheet Platform team, we were on a fact - finding mission talking to Box, DocuSign, Salesforce and others about…

Cross System Data View Using Python and Smartsheet

Published on 14 March 2014 by Scott McAllister

Smartsheet Data Tracker is a command line Python application that updates an existing sheet with data from multiple external sources…

Smartsheet Maps

Published on 12 March 2014 by Developer Relations

Today’s the day! Smartsheet Labs is live and we’ve got two exciting, brand new apps for you to test out, both great resources help you…

Introducing Smartsheet Labs

Published on 12 March 2014 by Developer Relations

It’s been nearly a year since we announced the arrival of the Smartsheet API – and today we’re excited to take our next step in extending…

Under the Hood: Enterprise Single Sign-On

Published by Alex Vorobiev on 15 April 2013

It's easy to give lots of blog coverage to shiny and exciting new features, like our iOS app or enhancements to Web Forms (spoiler alert…