# Common tasks

Rather than a tour, this is the list of things people do, with the route to each.

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## What you can do

| **Task**                                                         | **Where**                                    | **Notes**                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Insert the macro                                                 | Confluence editor → /Smartsheet              | Listed under Media, described as "Embed Smartsheet views".                                                                                                                                     |
| Embed a sheet by pasting its link                                | Paste a Smartsheet URL straight into the edi | A publish link works immediately with no Smartsheet connection. A link copied from the Smartsheet address bar also converts but shows "Finish setting up this sheet" until you open the settin |
| Connect your Smartsheet account                                  | Macro settings → Log in to Smartsheet, or th | Needed to browse sheets, see or change sharing, and use the Interactive table. Opens a new browser tab; the app picks the connection up when you return. Requires a Smartsheet plan with API a |
| Pick a sheet                                                     | Macro settings → Your sheets picker          | Search runs across your whole account once you type two or more characters. The list pages 25 at a time.                                                                                       |
| Change the sheet later                                           | Macro settings → "Change sheet" on the selec | Reopens the picker. Choosing a different sheet clears the stored publish link, so press Apply again.                                                                                           |
| Choose how readers see the sheet, then Apply                     | Macro settings → How readers see the sheet → | The radios only edit a draft. Apply is the only thing that changes the macro or Smartsheet, and it tells you what it will do first. Requires Confluence edit permission on the page.           |
| Let readers without a Smartsheet account see the Interactive tab | Macro settings → Enable viewer access for th | Stores your connection against that one sheet. Disconnecting your Smartsheet account removes it again.                                                                                         |
| Check or remove existing publish links                           | Macro settings → How this sheet is shared in | Shows whether each link is on and who it reaches. Removing a link stops it working for everyone who had it, anywhere. Not just on this page.                                                   |
| Set the embed size                                               | Macro settings → Width and Height            | Blank means 100% wide and 500px tall. Width has no effect on the Interactive table, and can only narrow the frame, never widen it past the page column.                                        |
| Browse sheets and see where they are used                        | Space → Smartsheet page → Space sheets / My  | Space sheets needs no Smartsheet connection. My sheets does, and shows the first 50 sheets only.                                                                                               |
| Switch or disconnect your Smartsheet account                     | Connection chip dropdown → Switch account /  | Switch account waits up to 60 seconds for the change. Disconnect signs you out at Smartsheet and drops your sheet bindings.                                                                    |
| Approve the app's pending Confluence permissions                 | Atlassian Admin Hub                          | A site-admin job. Until approved, the gallery's page-usage counts are unavailable; embedding and rendering still work.                                                                         |

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## Related

[How it worksWhy they behave as they do.](https://help.gocapable.com/smartsheet/how-it-works.html)

[TroubleshootingWhen one does not work.](https://help.gocapable.com/smartsheet/troubleshooting.html)

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_What people actually do._