The Scenario
You're an event coordinator preparing for a three-day conference next week. There are 80 session short links in a Google Sheet — one per session — and the design team needs a QR code image URL for each one by tomorrow morning to embed in the printed agenda, the room signs, and the mobile app. The links are already created in Short.io. All you have are the link IDs in column A.
The bad version:
- Open Short.io, find each link by its ID, navigate to the QR code section for that link, copy the image URL, switch back to the sheet, paste it into column B
- Repeat 80 times, tracking your place with a sticky note because the browser back button keeps losing the filtered view in Short.io
- Deliver the list to the design team two hours late because you underestimated how long 80 individual QR code lookups would take in a dashboard that wasn't built for bulk export
The designer has a noon deadline with the printer. You found out about the QR code requirement at 9 AM.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads the link IDs from column A, calls the Short.io QR code endpoint for each one, and writes the image URLs back into column B.
Generate a QR code for each Short.io link ID in column A and write the QR code image URL into column B
What You Get
- Column B fills with the QR code image URL for each Short.io link ID
- All 80 URLs are ready to hand to the design team for embedding in print and digital materials
- Any link ID that fails surfaces an error note in column B so you know exactly which sessions need a manual follow-up
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some sessions were cancelled and their link IDs should be skipped
Eleven sessions were pulled from the agenda last week, but their rows are still in the sheet.
For rows in column A where column C is marked "cancelled", skip the QR code generation — for all other rows, generate a Short.io QR code and write the image URL into column B
The design team needs a specific QR code size for print
The standard QR code output is too small for the room signs — they need the high-resolution version.
Generate Short.io QR codes at the highest available resolution for each link ID in column A and write the resulting image URL into column B
You need to add the session name to the sheet alongside the QR URL
The design team asked you to include the session title so they can match QR codes to the correct design files without cross-referencing another document.
For each link ID in column A, retrieve the Short.io link title and write it into column B — then generate the QR code and write the image URL into column C
Full enrichment plus QR generation in one shot
For each Short.io link ID in column A, retrieve the link title into column B, the original destination URL into column C, and generate the QR code image URL into column D — skip rows where column E is marked "cancelled"
The design team gets everything they need to match QR codes to sessions without making a single follow-up request.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Google Sheet with Short.io link IDs you need QR codes for — then ask it to generate the whole batch at once. Also see how to pull click stats for the same links after the event, or bulk-archive the session links once the conference wraps up.