Bringing in attachments - Jotform to Airtable

Hi Jeremy. I’m sure that I’m not the best person to be answering this question, but I’ll give you my experience.

I have experimented with Jotform and the ability of Jotform’s attachment field to deliver files to Airtable works fine. You don’t even need Zapier.

I think that with any of the automation middlemen (Zap, Integro, etc), you can only get one attachment into any Airtable attachment field. It will just replace the current one if you try to attach more. At least that was my experience a couple of years ago. So you would need one field for each attachment.

Of course, that’s just my limited experience and I could be wrong.

Good luck!

2025 Update:

You have a few different ways of handling this:

If you need to stick with JotForm for this, it’s important to note that JotForm doesn’t natively support all of Airtable’s fields (such as linked record fields and attachment fields). If you need to send your Jotform data into those fields, you will need to use Make’s Jotform integrations along with Make’s Airtable integrations.

However, the much easier way of handling all of this is to simply switch over your forms to Fillout’s advanced forms for Airtable.

Fillout natively communicates with Airtable, so you can directly link to attachment fields, linked records, and more.

Even better, Fillout is 100% free, and it offers hundreds of features that Airtable’s native forms don’t offer, including the ability to update Airtable records using a form, display Airtable lookup fields on forms, control access to a form via SSO or email domains, perform math or other live calculations on your forms, accept payments on forms, collect signatures on a form, create multi-page forms with conditional paths, create new linked records on a form, connect a single form to dozens of external apps simultaneously, add CAPTCHAs to your form, and much more.

I show how to use a few of the advanced features of Fillout on these 2 Airtable podcast episodes:

• Using Fillout to create an eSignature approval process with PDF file creation.
• Using Fillout to create an order entry form with line items.

Hope this helps! If you’d like to hire the best Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld

Thanks for chiming in. I knew that I wasn’t the best person to answer that question. :upside_down_face:

I am using Zapier when I try to send the files that I upload to Airtable, I can see that it is loading something but then it disappears. Any idea what I am doing wrong?

2025 Update:

I don’t know if Zapier is advanced enough to handle arrays of attachments, but Make can definitely handle this. (Make was formerly known as Integromat.)

If you’ve never used Make before, I’ve assembled a bunch of Make training resources in this thread. For example, here is one of the ways that you could instantly trigger a Make automation from Airtable. 

I also give live demonstrations of how to use Make in many of my Airtable podcast appearances. For example, in this video, I show how to work with Airtable arrays in Make.

You’ll want to watch that last video, because attachment fields are array fields.

However, as I mentioned above, the much easier way of handling all of this is to simply switch over your forms to Fillout’s advanced forms for Airtable.

Fillout natively communicates with Airtable, so you can directly link to attachment fields, linked record fields, and more.

Even better, Fillout is 100% free, and it offers hundreds of features that Airtable’s native forms don’t offer, including the ability to update Airtable records using a form, display Airtable lookup fields on forms, control access to a form via SSO or email domains, perform math or other live calculations on your forms, accept payments on forms, collect signatures on a form, create multi-page forms with conditional paths, create new linked records on a form, connect a single form to dozens of external apps simultaneously, add CAPTCHAs to your form, and much more.

I show how to use a few of the advanced features of Fillout on these 2 Airtable podcast episodes:

• Using Fillout to create an eSignature approval process with PDF file creation.
• Using Fillout to create an order entry form with line items.

Hope this helps! If you’d like to hire the best Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld