As it says in the title - is it possible to use the API to create/update the value of an Image column in a table? I see that the examples show just passing text values. Context: I’m considering migrating something I currently use Tiddlywiki for to Coda. One thing this would involve is copying ov…

Hi @Mikhail_Gordin , unfortunately image columns are not supported in the API at this time, though we do have that on our backlog. One workaround I’d suggest for now is to upload and host your images to a third-party service (or wherever they currently are hosted) and then use the Image URL column …

Hey @oleg Copy&paste doesn’t really work for images. Only direct upload or drag&drop in table view. Poor perfornance for attachments.

Copy-paste should work if you copy the entire file to your clipboard, though you’d have to paste in one by one: [image]

I can confirm that pasting into a table cell, or in detailed view on the image cell (ctrl-v, Windows 10) doesn’t work for me either, both by copying a file or by trying to paste from the snippet tool. Dragging and dropping a file works, but ideally I’d be able to copy paste. Is it possible, someho…

It’s very much possible there’s a bug on Windows that’s preventing paste from working :sweat_smile: - I reported it so we look into it. As for your second point, I can totally see how it’d be useful to support uploading images into rich text within cells, though sadly cells only offer a limited nu…

Hi Oleg! Is the current version of the API supporting image uploads through the API?

Hi @Max_Pauwels , we keep our API documentation up to date. Image uploads through the API are still not supported and we just haven’t had enough requests for that to prioritize vs. other work such as non-image attachments . Your best bet is to still follow the earlier workaround of using another servi…

Are there better solutions to this nowadays? I see that pack tables do support returning image attachments into Coda.

Can you update an Image column via the API?

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Can you update an Image column via the API?

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