Exporting a sheet and its attachments

User251

Hi

Is it possible to export a sheet and the attachments corresponding to each row (i.e in a format similar to smartsheet's)?

Andrée Starå

Hi @User251

I hope you're well and safe!

You can export it, but the attachments will be in one directory together.

Would that work?

I hope that helps!

Be safe, and have a fantastic week!

Best,

Andrée Starå | Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

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User251

Thanks @Andrée Starå . The only download I get when I export the sheet to excel is the sheet. Do you mean that I should download the attachments in a separate step?

Andrée Starå

@User251

Happy to help!

You'd need to use the Request Backup feature instead.

If you right-click on a sheet or Workspace, you can request it and include attachments.

Would that work?

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jo mamma

This feature has been requested on many, many threads since as far back as 2017.

The ability to download a sheet, and reference each attachment to its respective row, seems pretty basic, though there's been no progress to make it happen.

The backup function saves the sheet and just dumps all the attachments in a single directory - there are no references to the row the attachment belongs to other than reconciling it manually, for example by renaming each filename with a prefix including the row number it belongs to. This would be pretty tedious for anything beyond a smartsheet with five or ten attachments.

Sure hope smartsheets has this somewhere in the workstack.

Czarene

Hello, following up on this thread... Any updates?

amcgraw5719_

I can't get the request back up to work by right clicking

Marius Vencorp

Hi all - any progress here - i have a sheet with 8,500 lines and 72,000 attachments - looking to download and keep the link of attachment to the Rows as reference

roconnellTFS

Checking in again to see whether there is an update on this front. Our organization has invested a lot of time in developing Smartsheet tools that might not be adequate replacements for existing methods if there is no simple, automatic way to reconcile attachments with their relevant data on export.

jbalderas92

Any Update on this? I am trying to build a tool with business users and this is the #1 question - Data Extraction.

Kate HC

I would also like an update. This is critical to my needs with Smartsheet.

TJA

This is actually the most basic functionality that is not available - it makes "smart" sheet unusable.

vin2020

I need it too. SS is too lazy on implementing features that can be done overnight.

Häbi

Hi, I also urgently need the function, that exported attachments do have a reference to the line items in Smartsheet. Please add this function

bnesteriak

i too am looking for this functionality..any update?