I’d love to see a new data type that takes the URL of an image file and renders the image rather than just displaying the URL as a link. I would think that this would save you some storage space as well by letting us link to hosted files rather than pulling them in as attachments.
Yes, I would also love this feature, for instance, feeding from google sheets, via Zapier, a bunch of links that then display as thumbnails. Does not seem to happen right now.
+1 I’m also voting for this feature request. Another idea on how to implement this is by introducing a new IMAGE function. Something like Google Sheet’s IMAGE function. You pass the URL on this function and then it displays the image on the cell of Google Sheet.
+1 for this. AirTable is great but it has incredibly limited support for sheets with pictures or images. I had to learn how to be an Excel VBS Rocket Scientist just to export images in a logical way that I could import into AirTable since CSV doesn’t support images.
Unfortunately the process didn’t quite work like I had anticipated. It was an incredibly obnoxious process, and it may work better for you. Given the complexity of my situation it did not work. These are the steps I had to go through since AirTable doesn’t inherently support image upload with XSLX files.
Run script that saves all Excel images and names the file based on the row it’s in (example 1.png, 12.png, 55.png etc). The script is on Stack overflow, I’ll paste it in here when I can. I’m having trouble logging in to my account right now.
Save original Excel file as CSV
Upload original Excel file.
Manually upload images 1 by 1 into the column they are named after.
OR, if you are ok with linked images rather than having the image thumbnail appear on your sheet, you can bulk upload all the images into a new gallery view and use a linked column to manually link each image to their associated row. It’s mostly all manual.
Image upload is such a pain in air table, I have a ton of image URL assets that I’d like to port in but can’t…
I would really like the image URL preview link so I can just use my own file attachments instead
The only thing I could possibly think of for uploading images into Airtable is the following workflow:
Open up Airtable spreadsheet
Open up Regular spreadsheet with URL images to port in
Run a Mouse / Keyboard automation macro that grabs each item one by one, puts it over to the airtable link, checks PIXELS for upload successes, and then does each image one by one.
This would assume my airtable spreadsheet and regularspreadsheet have a 1:1 relationship, or that I could use a CTRL+F search for the same primary keys each one shares to grab the image URL
I can’t think of a better way to do this. Not even sure if this would even work correctly either
I would like to see what your script looks like though on SO
EDIT
for anyone reading this I ended up making a autohotkey macro on this thread:
