Viewing Google Sheets in Airtable

#1

Hello all!

So I am new to Airtable and I have to wonder where it has been all my life. Totally amazing. So forgive me if this is a stupid question, I tried to search for a similar Q but came up empty.

I have a library of Google Sheets that I reference for pricing. When I add one as an attachment to a base row, and click on it afterward, Airtable “sees” it as a Box document and an XLSX. I am unable to do anything but view and/or download the XLSX file.

I have enabled Google Drive integration and I was hoping that I would be able to click through to the original .gsheet file and edit it in Google Drive, should I need to. But Airtable doesn’t seem to recognize the .gsheet as a Google Drive file. I have tried attaching the .gsheet as a generic upload and also as pasting its url, but that doesn’t work either. Just wondering if this is something Airtable can do with the basic Google Drive integration, or if I need another service to do this?

Again, I’m not looking to bring the sheet into Airtable, most of the time I just need to view it and sometimes I would like to open and edit the original without leaving Airtable. But perhaps this isn’t possible? Thanks in advance!

#2

I’m not sure that this is possible, thought you should be able to import the document from google sheets as a CSV file, and dump the contents into an Airtable table.

I don’t know if that helps.

#3

I was wondering the same thing. I thought if the files synced, then I could edit the Sheets offline (since Airtable doesn’t offer that). And then the corresponding documents would update once I got back to the internet. The closest alternative to this I’ve found is to use IFTTT. You’ll still need to do the manual labor of initially creating a sheet in both platforms, but if you make any changes (say the pricing needs changes due to the market), then your Airtable version of the document will also update. Sorry I don’t personally have a better solution.