Changes / Smartsheet / Attachments Disabled Message

Smartsheet: Major incident: Attachments Disabled Message

Summary

Smartsheet reported a major incident affecting sheet attachment access and rendering of conditional formatting or filters, starting 2025-10-14 16:39 UTC and resolved at 2025-10-14 21:10 UTC (4 h 30 min). Customers could see “This action has been disabled”; Smartsheet attributed the issue to a recent code change and deployed a fix.

Machine-written from the diff below (Sol; type: incident outage). Check the diff before relying on it.

Major incidentLabel: outage (model (Jev), 99%)Changed Detected Source: stspg.io (opens in new tab)

What changed

AddedTitle#1
Before: not present
After: Attachments Disabled Message
AddedImpact#2
Before: not present
After: major
AddedStatus#3
Before: not present
After: postmortem
AddedStart time#4
Before: not present
After: 2025-10-14 16:39 UTC
AddedResolved time#5
Before: not present
After: 2025-10-14 21:10 UTC
AddedAffected components#6
Before: not present
After: Attachments, Documents - Attachments
AddedUpdateinvestigating#7
Before: not present
After: We are investigating reports that customers are seeing the “This action has been disabled. Contact your System Admin for details.” message when attempting to access sheet attachments. We will update this status message as our investigation progresses.
AddedUpdatemonitoring#8
Before: not present
After: A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
AddedUpdateresolved#9
Before: not present
After: This incident has been resolved.
AddedUpdatepostmortem#10
Before: not present
After: Beginning at approximately 8:44 AM PDT on October 14, 2025, some customers began experiencing issues accessing attachments and rendering previously set conditional formatting or filters. Our engineering team identified that a recent code change was the cause of the issue and deployed a fix. The fix was fully deployed and service was restored for all customers at approximately 9:57 AM PDT. We are reviewing our deployment processes to help prevent similar incidents in the future.

First version of this incident archived by Rewindex. View the live incident (opens in new tab).

History of this incident

When (UTC)ChangeKind
Major incident: Attachments Disabled Message (this change)
Smartsheet reported a major incident affecting sheet attachment access and rendering of conditional formatting or filters, starting 2025-10-14 16:39 UTC and resolved at 2025-10-14 21:10 UTC (4 h 30 min). Customers could see “This action has been disabled”; Smartsheet attributed the issue to a recent code change and deployed a fix.
Major incident

All Smartsheet changes → · Smartsheet profile · Markdown · JSON