# Ideas for Base64Encode of images **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [May 7, 2020, 5:17am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/ideas-for-base64encode-of-images/8633 "2020-05-07T05:17:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 11:01pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/ideas-for-base64encode-of-images/8633/14 "2020-05-07T23:01:55Z")
I haven’t gone down the path of upgrading to v8 yet. Or at least it hasn’t presented itself as a problem yet. Most of my heavy calculations involve queries and sheet formulas on a couple thousand lines and the inability to arrayformula some of them. @George_b gave me some solutions, but I haven’t implemented them yet. You and I had a little bit have back and forth on this awhile back in this thread ([Looking for advanced google sheet formulas](https://community.glideapps.com/t/looking-for-advanced-google-sheet-formulas/5282)). The second sheet has been a lifesaver and for the most part is a neat little trick to lighten up the glide sheet. My biggest beef with google sheets are the formulas that don’t work with arrayformulas. I kind of get why they don’t but in my head it seems like things would be so much simpler if google had a formula that could do some of these functions. Even though I write code for a living, I still try to avoid doing scripting as much as I can to keep things simple. The built in functions seem so much faster than using a script. I’ve gotten occasional script failures also, or I’ve hit a max computing limit for the day, even though my main script does little more than copy a name from one sheet to a few others. The thing that sucks is I don’t get notified about errors until the next day, so it’s harder to diagnose the problem. Yeah, those little quirks are another reason I try to avoid scripting. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.glideapps.com/t/ideas-for-base64encode-of-images/8633)._