So you’ve broken your wide array of interests into smaller specific topics, and made a bill sheet for each one. Keeping your searches narrow helps keep your dashboard and alerts nice and organized, and therefore useful and efficient. You can also set your alert levels differently for different topics, and share alerts with different people by topic, so keeping searches narrow gives you fine control over your communications.
However, sometimes you want to roll your topics back up, and see several, or even all, of your bills together on one sheet. For some time we have had a combine sheets checkbox on the bill sheets tab to let you bring bills together on one sheet.
Once you check at least two bill sheets to combine a button will appear above the CS column allowing you to create the combined sheet. A combined sheet adds a new column telling you what bill sheet the bill is on. It also includes your custom columns if (and only if) all of the bill sheets you’ve chosen to combine are using the same template. You can sort, filter, and export your combined bill sheet.
We have now added a new feature: unique combine. The unique combine will give you a unique list of bills among the selected bill sheets. You will not get the originating bill sheet column or your custom columns on the unique combined bill sheet.
After choosing at least two bill sheets to combine you’ll see a new button has been added: Unique. You can use this to count how many different bills you are tracking between a group of bill sheets, or to get a quick list to export, and so on.
We hope you find this new feature useful!
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