Row Attachment: Link (URL)

Stewart Grinton

I use Smartsheet to track video production in my department and there is a request to associate video links (vimeo urls) to each project row.

I've tried creating a whole new column containing a hyperlink, but that clutters up the master sheet and its information is not benefitial to sorting or report generating.

The other option is urls as attachments to rows. This is a nice feature which tucks away information more specific to each row. But I've had occasion to rename a url attachment after I create it. Only, once created there is no way to edit the url or rename its title. One must delete the link and create an entirely new attachment with the corrected information.

Smartsheet, is there a way to make attachment urls editable once they are created?

Shaine Greenwood

Hi Stewart,

There currently isn't a way to edit the name of a URL that has been attached via the attachments column on the right.

You might consider going back to the column idea, and use display text names for files to make URLs look nicer. Details on this are in the help center: https://help.smartsheet.com/articles/518326-creating-hyperlinks-to-sheets-reports-websites

You can also hide the column when it isn't needed: https://help.smartsheet.com/articles/504696-hiding-unhiding-columns

One other possibility is to create a report of your sheet and exclude your URL attachments column. Reports are custom views of your sheet that you can use to show or hide columns to only present the data that is relevant, depending on the situation. More on reports here: https://help.smartsheet.com/articles/522214-creating-reports