I found a couple of old (nearly 10 years?) topics about Google Sheets previews, or lack thereof. Is there any way to have that work today? Here’s why I’m asking. In our community, we track important information in a Google Sheet. On Facebook, the preview of the linked spreadsheet in the post is ac…

On Google docs desktop, go to file → share, then publish → embed. You can then paste the generated iframe into Discourse. You must add the Google docs domain to the allowed iframe URLs in Discourse admin. The result looks like this: [Screenshot_20251216_234605_Chrome] The window remains small …

Google Sheet Preview: is there any way?

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stephtara (Stephanie Booth) March 8, 2026, 7:18am 22

Ooh that is really exciting, the link to each person’s spreadsheet will be in a custom user field, that is planned… thanks a lot!

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Google Sheet Preview: is there any way?

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