Attachment File Name Inserted in a Cell

aehicks2000

Is it possible to add a column in a smartsheet and somehow make the name of any attached files appear in that column? I need to reference the file names in each row, but don't know if there's functionality to support this.

Paul Newcome

There may be a way using either the API or a 3rd party app such as Zapier, but aside from that it would have to be manual entry.

aehicks2000

Thaks Paul, I loooked at both and don't see a viable way to make this happen. Any other thoughts out there?

Paul Newcome

Unfortunately manual entry would be the only other thing I can think of.

Ryan Kramer

Actually this could be done but would require some utilization of the APIs. You could modify the sheet by adding a column, get attachments by sheet, row or comment and lastly parse attachments and populate a column. My company specializes in building solutions like this one. Send me a note at ryan@dynamicduo.io and we can discuss.

BSADK

Has anyone ever made this a feature request? It would be nice to have.

Neil Egsgard

@aehicks2000 , here is how we got attachment file names into Smartsheet cells. We needed to use Smartsheet Bridge.

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/120291/bridge-copy-all-attachment-names-to-another-sheet-get-data-from-an-array-with-a-child-workflow