Hey there! Great question.

I don’t know the structure of your base, but I would be willing to be it’s because you need to create a link to the record with the image.

When you create a form within your table (that contains the attachement), you are expecting the form to add an image, however if you make that field a link to another table that contains the attachments you’ll be forcing the user to choose from the images you have already prepared

(This is just a quick guess based on your use case, but if I’m wrong, please share your form/base so we can help)

Alright, I do understand what you mean, however I tried linking another record and still did not work unless I am doing it wrong which might be possible. Could you provide step by step how to do it or shall I proceed to attach it so we can collaborate?

Airtable’s forms are for submitting new data into the database, not viewing existing data. So you could have people upload new images into your database via a form, but you can’t have them view existing images via a form.

However, if you want people to view existing images in a form — or even download images via a form — then your #1 best bet for this is to use Fillout’s advanced forms for Airtable.

Fillout is 100% free, and it offers hundreds of features that Airtable’s native forms don’t offer, including the ability to add images to your form, view & update Airtable records using a form, create custom PDF files from a form submission, accept payments on forms, display Airtable lookup fields on forms, create new linked records on a form, control access to a form via SSO or email domains or a list of email addresses stored in Airtable, perform math or other live calculations on your forms, collect signatures on a form, create multi-page forms with conditional paths, 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!

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