Share How Your Team is Approaching the 2026 CDP Questionnaire
Hi Sustainability Community! 👋
We are thrilled that our 2026 CDP Questionnaire experience is officially live! We built this year’s updates to make collaborating and tracking progress smoother than ever. But now that it’s out in the wild, the most important question is: how is it working for you?
📊 Community Roll Call
Let’s get a pulse on how everyone is tackling CDP this year. Drop a comment below starting with one of these labels, and share your thoughts:
- What do you think of the new 2026 experience? How is the process going so far, and what is your #1 tip for teams who haven't kicked off yet?
- What data are you gathering right now, or when are you gearing up to begin?
🛠️ Need a Hand Getting Off the Ground?
If you haven't started yet, we have you covered! Jumpstart your process with these resources:
- 🎥 Watch the Demo: Check out the CDP Beverage Break Recording where our product managers walk through the latest improvements.
- 📖 Review the Intro: Kick off your prep steps with our Intro to CDP Questionnaire in Sustainability Explorer Help article.
- ⚙️ Follow the Guide: Walk through the step-by-step setup in Set up CDP questionnaire for Sustainability Reporting workspace.
- ❓ Get Answers: For more details, check out the 2026 CDP Questionnaire FAQ’s!
Our product and success teams will be hanging out in the comments to read your feedback, answer questions, and cheer you on.
We can't wait to see your insights and how you're conquering CDP 2026!
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Is there a way to expand "Table Preview" column width? I see that I can include/exclude columns, but they do not seem to be adjustable in size. Even if I hide all but one column, I still can't expand to view the full narrative. The table view is not useful if full disclosures are not visible. Please advise if there is a workaround I'm missing. Thank you.
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Allison Vanderspool - Thanks for sharing your feedback! I completely understand how important it is to view the full narrative in your disclosures for that table to actually be useful.
I confirmed the same behavior on my end, and unfortunately, there is currently no workaround to adjust the column widths. However, I have already escalated this to our Product team to review as a potential bug or future improvement. I’ll keep you posted right here as soon as we have an update from the team. Thanks for helping us make the platform better!
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We still find the collaborative functionality better in a document rather than Workiva's CDP questionnaire. We downloaded a word document of our CDP questionnaire & uploaded it to Workiva to source link content from our existing documents. We're also utilizing processes to assign the various sections of the document & overarching document reviews needed later on. We've also created standard CDP data collection templates & tables in our factbook that are linked in the document & automatically update once the data is finalized & published. Our plan is to copy & paste the final content into Workiva's CDP questionnaire to then push to CDP's ORS. It is helpful to have CDP in the system to check dropdowns, what questions unlock, built-in guidance, etc., but I don't think we'll fully utilize Workiva's CDP questionnaire for ALL content/data creation until it can pull tagged content into the form & have more collaboration.
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Allison Vanderspool Great news, the product team is able to adjust column widths and is looking to have this available to you within the week! Thanks again for flagging this! Feedback like yours is what helps us continually improve the platform!
Jessica Davis Thank you for sharing how your team approaches the CDP questionnaire! It’s great to hear how effectively you are utilizing source linking, Factbooks, and Processes to manage your overarching reviews and data collection. That said, we completely understand your desire to see better collaborative functionality and native content tagging directly within the Workiva CDP questionnaire itself. I will pass your insightful feedback along to our Product team to help guide our roadmap for future enhancements. Thanks for being such a collaborative partner with us!
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Thanks Carrie for the good news about column width expansion in the preview tables! Can you also please confirm when the report export function will be available (mentioned during Workiva's recent CDP webinar)? This is critical for our review process, especially to ensure no changes are made after we reviewers approve our disclosures. Since there isn't a track changes feature built into the CDP questionnaire (that's in all other Workiva documents/spreadsheets, etc.), I think the export report feature followed by a Word to Word or pfd to pdf blackline (depending on format Workiva provides) is the only way for me to prove no changes were made between final review and upload to CDP. If you have other suggestions for how users can complete this check for internal audit controls, please let me know. Thanks!
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I have more great news for you, Allison Vanderspool, the Export to Document function is officially available today!
You can try it out right away. Please check out the Help article, which describes the step-by-step process to set up and request your first export to a Workiva Document.
As for your review process, exporting the report to run a Workiva Document to Document blackline is actually a spot-on approach to satisfy internal audit controls and verify that no text was altered! To add an extra layer of protection, you can also adjust user permissions on the questionnaire to read-only/viewer per module as soon as your reviewers give their final approval so no accidental edits can occur before submission. I hope this new export feature makes your final review process much smoother!
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Allison Vanderspool Exciting news: the ability to expand column widths was officially released earlier today! Check it out and let us know if this solves the visibility issue for your team.
Bonus Tip for the Community: We also recently published a CDP for Collaborators help article! If you have contributors helping with your CDP submission who are new to Workiva, this guide provides a simple, easy-to-follow outline of the basic workflow to help them get started.
Let us know what you think!
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Carrie - Is there something I need to do to enable the column expansion function? It's not working for me in the CDP Questionnaire's Table Preview. I can make columns shorter, but not longer and I cannot read the contents. Please advise.
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Allison Vanderspool - Thank you for bringing this to our attention! One of our Software Engineers verified we have coded the fix for this and it should be in production tonight.
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Molly - I submitted a Workiva Support ticket with screenshots showing the Table Preview limitations (at least in my workspace). The columns cannot be expanded to read the narrative.
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I have submitted a ticket because I have not been able to create our 2026 questionnaire within workiva after bringing in our API code from CDP. It might be because the day I brought in the code (last week), CDP portal was having major issues. I've not yet received response to close out the ticket. Any suggestions for how I can resolve?
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We just had the 2026 CDP responses downloaded into a Workiva document and the plan is to tag users for review and approval using the document.
Suggestion - it would be helpful to have each field for a table response separated by a row in the document download. Question 3.1.1. as an example. Or show the field name in bold?
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I totally agree with Rebecca Hensley. Our CDP export file is over 200 pages and the formatting makes it very hard to read. Without column headers in bold/spacing between table response row, all the text just runs together. Please advise if it's possible for Workiva to update the export file's text formatting. Question titles are in bold, so hopefully adding bold for column and row headers, and/or spacing for readability is an easy fix. Thank you!
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Camila Cristo Just checking in to see if you got your 2026 CDP connection working! If you are still troubleshooting, one quick tip: double-check that all initial questionnaire setup steps are fully completed in the CDP Portal before bringing your code over. This is the primary reason customers run into trouble with the API code from CDP. Let us know if that helps! If Support helped you find a different fix, we’d love for you to share it here so fellow CDP responders can learn from it.
Rebecca Hensley and Allison Vanderspool Thank you both for this feedback! I’ve shared your exact use cases directly with our Product team to review for a future update. I’ll keep you posted right here on this thread as soon as I learn more!
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