Adding static images to page designer

I have exactly the same issue. Waiting for solution…

Here is Airtable's official solution: 

So sorry about the trouble you are encountering with Page Designer! Our new attachment functionality unfortunately will result in the attachment URL expiring after time when used as a static image. To workaround this change, you can use an Attachment Field instead of a static image URL. Here is what this workflow would look like: 

1. Create another table called Static Image Templates, and have it include an Attachment field
2. Add a record into that table, and upload the desired image onto the record
3. In the original table where you are using the Page Designer extension, create:

• 3a: A new Linked Record field referencing “Static Image Templates” 
• 3b: A new Lookup field  referencing that “Attachment” field. Let’s call this “Reference Image Template” for example

      4. Set the result of step 2 into the field from step 3a in. every row into the original table.      (Essentially, linking records from the newly created Static Image Templates table to your original table)
      5. Finally, back in the Page Designer app, change that image from using a raw URL, to instead use the “Reference Image Template” field from 3b.

In short, the workflow above is using the image field within Page Designer instead of the image URL that now expires.

I haven't found a solution that airtable has officially stated but I know the one I posted above about using imgur.com to host the images privately has been working perfectly for me. I know the images are only some-what private has someone could guess the link but the images are not public on imgur and for my application this isn't an issue. 

I also saw in another post someone mentioned using cloudinary as the 3rd party to host the images. I haven't tried cloudinary but that could also be worth a look as well. 

Turns out it was the airtable update to URL security and expiry that was causing the issue I was having. I created an account with imgur and am privately hosting the static images I want to use on there.
I have been using the "direct link" that has the file type at the end of the link in page designer with no issue. 

If you are outside of the US and want to create an imgur account, download the app and create an account through the app as this does not require you to use a mobile number for verification. From there you will be able to login on your desktop.   

I am trying Imgur.com. Copied the image link from there but it does not work in the page designer .  ‘Failed to load image’. Is there a certain way to copy the link from Imgur.com or the link needs something to be added?

thank you!

I'm in the UK and unable to create an Imgur account - However I've found that I can host the images on my own website and use those image urls to add images to my Page Designer docs.

We just ran into this issue with one of the units we set up an Airtable environment for.  We use Google Drive at our workplace, so I set up a shareable/downloadable link in Google Drive that will populate an image placement in page designer.  It does require a little revision to the URL so it's a direct link to the downloadable file, but this Makeuseof.com has a quick guide on how to the set that up.  You can also use this Google Drive Direct Link Generator, which is pretty handy.

Here is Airtable's official solution: 

So sorry about the trouble you are encountering with Page Designer! Our new attachment functionality unfortunately will result in the attachment URL expiring after time when used as a static image. To workaround this change, you can use an Attachment Field instead of a static image URL. Here is what this workflow would look like: 

1. Create another table called Static Image Templates, and have it include an Attachment field
2. Add a record into that table, and upload the desired image onto the record
3. In the original table where you are using the Page Designer extension, create:

• 3a: A new Linked Record field referencing “Static Image Templates” 
• 3b: A new Lookup field  referencing that “Attachment” field. Let’s call this “Reference Image Template” for example

      4. Set the result of step 2 into the field from step 3a in. every row into the original table.      (Essentially, linking records from the newly created Static Image Templates table to your original table)
      5. Finally, back in the Page Designer app, change that image from using a raw URL, to instead use the “Reference Image Template” field from 3b.

In short, the workflow above is using the image field within Page Designer instead of the image URL that now expires.

I have followed these instructions exactly and I am still getting errors.

We just ran into this issue with one of the units we set up an Airtable environment for.  We use Google Drive at our workplace, so I set up a shareable/downloadable link in Google Drive that will populate an image placement in page designer.  It does require a little revision to the URL so it's a direct link to the downloadable file, but this Makeuseof.com has a quick guide on how to the set that up.  You can also use this Google Drive Direct Link Generator, which is pretty handy.