# Connecting to Smartsheet
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Smartsheet is a work management and collaboration SaaS product. Fundamentally, Smartsheet allows users to use spreadsheet-like objects to create, store, and utilize business data.

**Topics**
+ [AWS Glue support for Smartsheet](smartsheet-support.md)
+ [Policies containing the API operations for creating and using connections](smartsheet-configuring-iam-permissions.md)
+ [Configuring Smartsheet](smartsheet-configuring.md)
+ [Configuring Smartsheet connections](smartsheet-configuring-connections.md)
+ [Reading from Smartsheet entities](smartsheet-reading-from-entities.md)
+ [Smartsheet connection options](smartsheet-connection-options.md)
+ [Creating an Smartsheet account](smartsheet-create-account.md)
+ [Limitations](smartsheet-connector-limitations.md)

**Entities with dynamic metadata:**

For the following entity, Smartsheet provides an endpoint to fetch metadata dynamically, allowing operator support to be captured at the datatype level.


| Entity |  Data Type  | Supported Operators | 
| --- | --- | --- | 
|  Sheet Data  |  String  | NA | 
| Sheet Data |  Long  | "=" | 
| Sheet Data | Integer | NA | 
| Sheet Data | DateTime | > | 

 **Example** 

```
Smartsheet_read = glueContext.create_dynamic_frame.from_options(
    connection_type="smartsheet",
    connection_options={
        "connectionName": "connectionName",
        "ENTITY_NAME": "list-sheets",
        "API_VERSION": "2.0",
        "INSTANCE_URL": "https://api.smartsheet.com"
    }
```