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Upload Multiple File Attachments to QuickBase

  • January 31, 2021
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You can create a button that allows you to add and link multiple file attachments at once to QuickBase.

By getting a copy of the "Magic Buttons" app from the QuickBase Exchange you can copy the button and the html code page and make it your own for your QuickBase application.


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Kirk Trachy , Senior Solutions Consultant
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MarkShnierYou
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Thx Kirk for posting this! 

For the Advanced impatient students you can watch up to the 30 second mark and then jump ahead to minute 5:00 in the video to see the three elements of the code page to be updated, those being the optional App Token if your app requires one, the Field ID of the file attachment field and the full URL of the table that holds the attachment.

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AdamKeever1
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Thanks for sharing!

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Adam Keever
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Hi Kirk, I'm trying to get this working but no documents are being added to the related document table in my app.  I noticed the button code has been updated, and this video no longer applies.  The notation on the button indicates the page code no longer needs to be updated, however there is still the following callout in the code page:

request.open("POST", attachmentTableURL, true); // UPDATE WITH THE URL TO THE DESTINATION TABLE


I'm pretty new to quickbase, so I may have gotten something else wrong, but appreciate clarification on whether the code page requires an update to make this work.  Thanks for all you do - your apps and videos are huge inspiration and resource!



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Troy MacPherson
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  • November 30, 2021
Kirk. Thanks for this. You helped me get a Drag n Drop version of this working. I'm wondering, have you tried incorporating this into the new "iframe" functionality with URL fields? Specifically, embedding the pop-up page into the original form instead of linking to it from the button.

I'm finding that the new feature re-writes the address of the embedded page (adding a ".ui" sub-domain) thus losing the ability to use the QuickBase API (because it's now on a different domain and security won't allow cross-site scripting). I wonder if you've run into the same thing and might have some thoughts?

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Nick Mangine
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This is awesome, but I am surprised that QB hasn't decided to make this a simple, native capability, and include a drag and drop option.

For those wanting a drag and drop option, @Juiced Tech has a nice addon that allows for drag and drop, and optionally include required fields.
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Mike Tamoush
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  • February 24, 2022
I know this is old. It works great. 

The only issue we have is we are uploading 1-60 images based on the job. several times a day. 
They hold time once you choose the docs can be a few mins and it has no indication it's doing something. 

is there a way we could add a progress bar?

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Ali Mohsenian
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Good evening,

How do you get the Multiple file button to display at the top? I already added the script but this section does not appear.

Thank you,
Victoria

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Victoria Clark
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