The Scenario
It's Wednesday afternoon and you're three hours from sending a social media batch for this month's affiliate campaign. Column A of your Google Sheet has 50 long URLs — product pages, referral links, partner landing pages — and every single one needs a Short Menu short link before the post queue gets loaded.
You've done this before. You know what's coming.
The bad version:
- Open Short Menu, paste URL from A2 into the create-link form, generate the link, copy the short URL, switch back to the sheet, paste it into B2, move down a row.
- Repeat that for 49 more rows without losing your place, without accidentally pasting the previous row's short URL, without missing any blank rows that would throw off your row count.
- End up with 50 short links and roughly forty minutes gone, plus a vague anxiety about whether row 31 actually got the right URL or whether you copied A30 twice.
Forty minutes of attention-intensive mechanical work the day of a launch is not a sustainable use of anyone's afternoon. You're supposed to be reviewing the post copy, not running a URL-shortening assembly line.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads your data and talks to Short Menu on your behalf — no dashboard toggling, no row-by-row form submissions. Open the SheetXAI sidebar and describe what you need.
Create a Short Menu short link for each URL in column A and write the generated short link into column B
What You Get
- Column B fills with Short Menu short URLs, one per row, matched exactly to the source URL in column A.
- Rows where column A is blank are skipped automatically — no phantom links, no offset errors.
- If a URL returns an error from Short Menu, that cell in column B shows the error message rather than a short URL, so you can spot and fix the specific problem row without hunting through 50 results.
- The sheet is left in a state you can hand directly to whoever loads the post queue — no extra cleanup step.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some URLs in column A have trailing whitespace or misformatted prefixes
Clean any trailing spaces and fix any URLs in column A that are missing "https://" before creating Short Menu short links, then write the results into column B
I need short links for only the rows where column C says "approved"
Create Short Menu short links only for rows where column C equals "approved" and write the short URLs into column B, leaving other rows blank
URLs are spread across two sheets — "Affiliate" and "Partner" — and both need short links
Combine the URLs from column A of the "Affiliate" sheet and column A of the "Partner" sheet, create a Short Menu short link for each, and write the results back into column B of the respective sheet
I also want to check for duplicates before generating
Remove any duplicate URLs in column A, then create a Short Menu short link for each unique URL and write the short URL into column B, marking any removed duplicates in column C
The pattern: asking for cleanup alongside the action means you don't have to run a separate deduplication pass first.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open your affiliate URL sheet, then ask SheetXAI to generate Short Menu links for everything in column A and write them into column B. When you're done, see also how SheetXAI handles custom domain campaign links or the full Short Menu integration overview.