File attachment from request form/table to elsewhere in the app via automation/JS

I'm currently thinking it would be easier given that the location table has some custom code to view files from the browser... though it's worth looking into...

As I'm typing this, that might be the way that I'm going.

Apologies if the answer is right under my nose....but if I want to take your suggested approach of just populating the file attachment URL in a text field- what's the easiest way to do that if I don't want to have a button or anything clicked?.... I just want to populate the URL of a file attachment field (latest version always) automatically and assuming there is a file in the file attachment field....   once I do that I would then share that field down to my child table and then I'd be good to go (for what I need to do)

Thanks for the help

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Scott Pugh
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