Navigate Smartsheet Easier with Hyperlinks. Insert Images Where You Need Them

How to insert images and hyperlinks into Smartsheet to make navigation easier for your end users.
First up: how to upload and insert images into your Smartsheet sheets. This makes it easy for your team to reference the correct images (especially if you're not using Brand Folder, a Smartsheet integration)
Next: Inserting Cross Sheet Links. Similar to Cross Sheet references, only this links to a single cell and updates your sheet when that cell is updated.
Last: Hyperlinks to Websites and Smartsheet Assets. How they open and how you can use them to make navigation amongst your team's sheets, reports, and dashboards easier.
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[@johnpearson8384]

Is it possible just to have a file string replacing the image in the cell, while the image still sits in the row attachements. I am having the problem you spoke about where the images are exploding the sheet out. What is a way around this so I can just keep all the incoming images stored in the row attachments only. Thank you - John

[@workflowcreative]

Hi John, how are you getting the images/attachments on the sheet initially? Through a form or directly adding them to the rows?

[@johnpearson7910]

No, via a third party app I developed where my trade workers are sending images back that land in to smartsheet. I was using Google's sheets where the images appear as a string file (eg dog walking.png) and the images are saved directly into Google drive. I was hoping smartsheet has a similar set up but from research I don't think this is possible unless you have any ideas around it? Thanks John

[@workflowcreative]

@@johnpearson7910 Got it. No. SS doesn’t expose image urls or keep the public urls for attachments for more than 30 days. It seems you’ve ran into a limitation for your use case. An alternative approach would be to use your app to store the files in Google, Dropbox, or box and just send the url to SS. -Ryan