The Scenario
You're a digital agency account manager who oversees 500 client short links spread across multiple Dub workspaces. Last quarter you inherited the account from a colleague who left, and the link taxonomy is a mess — some links have no tags, some have outdated client names, some have campaign labels that predate the current naming convention.
Your master tracking workbook already has the right tags for each link: worksheets with columns for the link ID, the client name, the campaign label, and the channel. The work isn't figuring out what the tags should be. The work is getting them into Dub without spending your afternoon doing it.
The bad version:
- Open Dub, search for link ID from row 1, open the edit panel, type in the new tags, save, close.
- Repeat for row 2. Notice the tag field doesn't auto-suggest values you've used before — you have to type them exactly right each time.
- Get through 60 rows before the end of the day and realize 440 more are waiting for you.
Leadership expects a clean workspace before the client handoff call next Thursday. You are not a data entry operator, and treating you like one is a waste of a billable hour.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your Excel workbook. It reads the data and talks to Dub's bulk-update endpoint for you — no manual dashboard work required.
Open your master tracking workbook, open SheetXAI in the sidebar, and type:
Read my Excel table where column A has Dub link IDs and column B has new tag values, then bulk-update all links with those tags in one operation. Write the result status to column C.
What You Get
- Dub receives a bulk update call with all link IDs and their new tag values in one operation — not 500 individual edits.
- Tags are applied additively: existing tags on each link are not cleared, only the new ones from column B are added.
- Column C receives a status stamp per row — "updated" or an error message if the link ID wasn't found in the workspace.
- The operation runs against the correct Dub workspace for each row if your workbook has a workspace column; otherwise it defaults to your primary workspace.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
The tags in column B have inconsistent formatting — some use spaces, some use underscores, some are capitalized
Before updating Dub tags, normalize column B: lowercase all values, replace spaces with hyphens, and strip any leading or trailing whitespace from each comma-separated tag. Then apply the normalized tags to the Dub link IDs in column A via bulk update. Write the result to column C.
I only want to update links where the "Status" column D says "active"
Filter my Excel table to rows where column D equals "active," then bulk-update the Dub link IDs in column A with the tags from column B. Leave inactive rows untouched and write "skipped (inactive)" to column C for those rows.
I have multiple workspaces — column C has the workspace name for each link
Use the workspace name in column C to determine which Dub workspace to update. For each row in my table, apply the tags from column B to the link ID in column A in the corresponding workspace. Write the result to column D.
Normalize the tags, filter to active links only, deduplicate any tag values, and apply — all in one pass
Normalize the tags in column B of my Excel table (lowercase, hyphens for spaces), remove duplicate tag values within each cell, filter to rows where column D is "active," then bulk-update the Dub links in column A with the cleaned tags. Write the operation result to column E.
You don't need to clean the data first and then run the update as a second task — one prompt handles the whole chain.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Excel workbook with a list of Dub link IDs and their intended tags, then ask it to bulk-update your workspace in one shot. You can also use it to create new links from a URL list or see the full Dub + Excel integration guide.