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I am adding records for user profiles. Records are only going to be name and email address until the user logs in to update with additional information.


I have one field set up as an attachment, and a user can upload an image to use as an avatar. I would like to set up a default image as a placeholder.


I have a view in the user table as ‘attachment field is blank’ to filter out the new records without an avatar, and created a separate table with one record that contains the placeholder image in an attachment field.


How do I set up the automation to pull the placeholder image over to the blank attachment field? I was thinking to trigger ‘when record enters a view’ but I can’t figure it out from there.


Thanks for the assistance 🙂

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You can upload the default image in an automation by using a public url for the image. If your image is already an attachment in Airtable, you can find the url using a formula field. Note that this will re-upload the image, so the same image will count against your attachment space multiple times.

Welcome to the Airtable community!


You can upload the default image in an automation by using a public url for the image. If your image is already an attachment in Airtable, you can find the url using a formula field. Note that this will re-upload the image, so the same image will count against your attachment space multiple times.


what are the specific steps / settings to do that?

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