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Bulk Update Sendbird User Metadata From a Google Sheet

2026-05-14
5 min read

The Scenario

The rebrand went live last week. Now someone in Ops has handed you a spreadsheet of 300 Sendbird user accounts whose display nicknames need to change from the old company name format to the new one. Column A has user_id, column B has the new nickname. You are the third person this has been handed to. The first two said it would take too long. You said you'd look into it.

The bad version:

  • Open the Sendbird dashboard, navigate to Users, search for the user_id in row 1, click Edit, update the nickname to the value in column B, save — then repeat for row 2
  • After 30 minutes, you've updated 12 users and have 288 to go — the math on finishing this by end of day is not encouraging
  • Lose your place when you switch windows to answer a Slack message, have to figure out which row you were on, and update one user twice while skipping another entirely

Nobody hired you to type nicknames. You have actual work to do.

The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI

SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads your rebrand mapping — old user_id, new nickname — and through its Sendbird integration it pushes the update to each account, writing back whether it succeeded so you have a complete record of the run.

For each row in this sheet, update the Sendbird user identified by user_id in column A to use the new nickname from column B and write "updated" or the error into column C

What You Get

  • All 300 rows processed in one pass — no dashboard clicking, no losing your place
  • Column C shows "updated" for successes and the specific error for failures
  • Any users who no longer exist in Sendbird surface in column C with the error so you know exactly which ones to investigate
  • The sheet becomes your audit record showing which accounts were updated and which weren't

What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready

You also need to update the profile_url for some users

For each row in this sheet, update the Sendbird user identified by user_id in column A — set their nickname to the value in column B and, where column C is not empty, also set their profile_url to the value in column C — write "updated" or the error into column D

Some rows in the spreadsheet have users who don't exist in Sendbird yet and need to be created instead of updated

For each row in this sheet, try to update the Sendbird user in column A with the nickname in column B — if the user is not found, create a new Sendbird user with that user_id and nickname instead — write "updated," "created," or the error into column C

The new nicknames have inconsistent capitalization that needs to be normalized first

For each row in this sheet, convert the nickname in column B to title case (first letter of each word capitalized) — then update the Sendbird user in column A with that normalized nickname and write the result into column C

Full rebrand run: flag bad rows, normalize nicknames, push updates, log results

For each row in this sheet where column A has a user_id and column B has a nickname: convert the nickname in column B to title case, update the Sendbird user in column A with the normalized nickname, write "updated" or the error into column C — for any rows where column A or B is blank, write "MISSING DATA" into column C

One prompt, the entire 300-user rebrand run done and documented.

Try It

Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open the Google Sheet with your user rebrand mapping, then ask it to push all the nickname updates to Sendbird and confirm each one in the sheet. Also see: Bulk Provision Sendbird User Accounts From a Google Sheet and the Sendbird integration overview.

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