How to retain and add to existing attachments in field when updating Airtable record?

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Hi! What if you do not have the file ID field option? My field name is called “Certificates” in the Airtable base, however when I look under Find Record options in Zapier, it does not show.

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Hi @Staff Training, welcome to the Community! 🎉

Hope you don’t mind but we’ve moved your question out from that old topic into a new one so we can address it separately.

I did a quick test in an Airtable by adding an Attachments type of field called Certificates and that then supplied a field called Fields Certificates ID which contained the ID for the existing file:

So you’d want to select that Fields Certificates ID field along with the relevant File field like so:

Can you give that a try and let me know how it goes?

Hey @Staff Training, just checking in! Did my suggestion do the trick?

Happy to assist further if you’re still stuck at all, just let me know! 🙂

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