The Scenario
You are a brand manager. Ten thousand postcards are ready to go. The campaign is set up in Stannp. The template passed two rounds of revisions. Before you approve the send and commit the print budget, you want to see the final rendered piece — exactly what will go to 10,000 mailboxes.
The campaign ID is in your Excel approval workbook. The Stannp sample API will generate a PDF preview. The creative director needs a link. The finance lead needs to see confirmation that the proof was reviewed before the spend is approved.
The bad version:
- Log into Stannp, find the campaign in the list, click into it, find the Preview or Sample option, wait for the PDF to generate, copy the temporary URL.
- Switch to Excel, paste the URL somewhere — probably a comment on a cell — send it to the creative director.
- Creative director comes back after 45 minutes. The preview link has expired. Generate a new one. This time paste it directly into an email.
- Finance lead asks where the proof review confirmation lives in the workbook. It does not — it is in an email thread.
A temporary preview link should not require four context switches and two regenerations before a single stakeholder has seen it.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your Excel workbook. It calls the Stannp sample endpoint for the campaign ID in your workbook and writes the preview URL into the adjacent cell.
Create a PDF preview for each campaign ID in column A using Stannp's sample endpoint and paste the 30-minute preview URLs into column B.
What You Get
- Column B populated with the preview URL for every campaign ID in column A.
- The URLs are generated at the moment the prompt runs, giving you the full window from that point to share them.
- The preview links live in the workbook next to the campaign IDs — no comment bubbles, no email threads, no sticky notes.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Single campaign needing its preview written to a specific cell
Generate a Stannp campaign sample PDF for the campaign ID in cell A1 and write the returned preview URL into cell B1.
Campaign names needed alongside the preview links
For each row in this workbook with a campaign ID in column A, fetch the campaign name from Stannp and generate a PDF sample, then write the campaign name into column B and the preview URL into column C.
Preview only needed for campaigns in draft status
For each row in this workbook with a campaign ID in column A, check the campaign status and generate a PDF sample only for campaigns with draft status — write the preview URL into column B for those rows and write Not in draft into column B for all others.
Full pre-send approval package in one pass
For the campaign ID in cell A1, fetch the campaign details — name, status, recipient count, and estimated cost — and write them into cells B1 through B4. Generate a PDF sample and write the preview URL into cell B5. Write today's date into cell B6 as the proof review timestamp.
Building the full approval record in one prompt means the finance lead opens the workbook and sees campaign name, status, recipient count, estimated cost, preview link, and review date — all in one place.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Excel workbook used for campaign approvals and ask it to generate Stannp preview links before you commit to a print run. For creating the campaign and pulling cost estimates, see the estimate-campaign-cost spoke. For the hub overview, see How to Connect Stannp to Excel.