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What I’m looking for is to be able to send out a URL to collaborators that will bring them to the attachment view window inside Airtable so that they can view my attachment and leave comments.



I have tried assigning a trigger & action in automations like this:





(“Drafts” is what I named the attachment field") but all this does is open an image of the attachment in your browser. It does not open Airtable.



PLEASE HELP!

The URL pattern for having a particular attachment opened such that someone could comment on it is as follows:



https://airtable.com/table_ID/view_ID (optionally)/record_ID/field_ID/attachment_ID


As far as I know, the only way you’d be able to get both the field ID and the attachment ID is with a script. Since you’re already using an Automation, assuming your base is on a Pro Workspace, this isn’t a hinderance:



Before the automation step you have now, add a Run a script action step that has two input variables (add input variables on the left side of the screen): recordURL which should be the trigger record’s URL, and attachmentIds which should be the value from the attachment field as a “List of… ID” (as opposed to a list of URLs or list of names).



Then add the following script (renaming the Attachment field as necessary):



let {recordURL, attachmentIds} = input.config()





let attachmentFieldName = "Attachments"





let recordInfo = {


    tableId: recordURL.split("/")U3],


}





let fieldID = base.getTable(recordInfo.tableId).getField(attachmentFieldName).id





let constructedURLs = attachmentIds.map(id => {


    return recordURL + "/" + fieldID + "/" + id


})


output.set("constructedURLs", constructedURLs)


Use the output of the script in your message to collaborators

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