How to create a column of images directly from URLs

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I have a column in a table which contains URLs pointing to an image.

I would like to create a separate column which contains the actual image from the URL entry in the URL column.

I know I can download each image and add it as an attachment column, which achieves this, but this is cumbersome.

I could also view the image in a separate card using the Custom Widget Image viewer, but I’d like to see the images in a table column.

It seems this is possible in Airtable, see here via option 2 in step 2.

Is there a native feature in Grist? Markdown? Python function?

Thank you

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Hi @Andrew3 !

Unfortunately, there is not a native feature in Grist that would show the actual image from a URL directly in a column. I would usually suggest the two options you already listed with the attachment column and Image Viewer custom widget.

This would be a very cool feature to add to Grist though. I’ll share this with our team as a future improvement idea!

Thanks,
Natalie

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Thank you for responding.

In excel and google sheets there is an =IMAGE function to insert an image into a cell and I was hoping Grist had something similar. It would be great to add this as a feature.

I took a quick look, but couldn’t find an enhancement request process. How does a user request a new feature?

Thanks again.

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Nevermind I see there is a feature request for this feature in Github.