BRIDGE - (URL's & IMAGES)

earl_bennett

I've created 2 Bridge workflows.

• Add the URL of an attachment to a row cell.
  • This works perfectly, but the URL is only active for 2 minutes then it becomes inactive.

? Is there a way to make URL's permanent when using Bridge ?

• Insert an attached image to a row cell
  • I have not been able to get this to work as I intend.

? Is there a way to insert an image using Bridge ?

Genevieve P.

Hi @earl_bennett

1) The attachment URL is only valid for two minutes, as you've found. This has to do with the current Smartsheet API limit with attachment URLs.

2) No, there currently isn't a way to insert an image into a cell using Bridge at this time.

Please submit your feature requests to the Product team by creating two Idea Posts in the Smartsheet Product Feedback and Ideas topic here in the Community. This will allow other users to vote on your enhancement idea!

Cheers,

Genevieve

earl_bennett

Kind of a bummer... I can get a permanent link to the entire row, which exposes all the sheet attachments, but not a permanent link to the attachment on the row.

Thanks for the response.

Julie Fortney

@Genevieve P. This post is a couple of years old. Have there been any advancements on the ability to upload an image into a cell using Bridge?

I see there is an Add Image to Cell workflow in the API documentation. Would I be able to use that with the Make API Call module in Bridge? If so, can you help me with configuring it correctly?

My use case is that I am creating a dynamic url form query formula in my sheet, and using that to create a QR code via an API call to qr.io. It returns a link to a png file. I want to grab that png url and pull the image into another column.

Thanks!

Julie

Genevieve P.

Hey @Julie Fortney!

Bridge still does not support attachments or adding images into a cell - here's the related Product Idea to vote on 🙂 Enable File Handling in Bridge

The API module is potentially something you could use! I personally have not done this before with the API (in or out of Bridge) so I'm not sure what the configuration would be. Here's the API documentation that should have some example configurations for you. https://smartsheet.redoc.ly/tag/cellImages/#operation/addImageToCell

I would personally first test in something like Postman, and then if it works, create the Bridge workflow to mirror that.

Cheers,
Genevieve