# Is it possible to use Thunkable As interface to attach any file from my IPhone into Airtable?
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-it-possible-to-use-thunkable-as-interface-to-attach-any-file-from-my-iphone-into-airtable/1140700
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [March 3, 2021, 8:52pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-it-possible-to-use-thunkable-as-interface-to-attach-any-file-from-my-iphone-into-airtable/1140700 "2021-03-03T20:52:00Z")
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### Author:  [@ealalin13s68](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ealalin13s68)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2021, 8:52pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-it-possible-to-use-thunkable-as-interface-to-attach-any-file-from-my-iphone-into-airtable/1140700/1 "2021-03-03T20:52:00Z")
In my Airtable I have a field attachement:
Is it possible via Thunkable to select any document from my IPH and attache them to the field attachement from airtable , opening airtable via Thunkable . The airtable must not be directly accessible.
Is it possible that thunkable emulate this 🙂
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### Author:  [@ealalin13s68](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ealalin13s68)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2021, 8:55pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-it-possible-to-use-thunkable-as-interface-to-attach-any-file-from-my-iphone-into-airtable/1140700/2 "2021-03-03T20:55:33Z")
For attachement file I will use excel files and word doc
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### Author:  [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2021, 9:50pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-it-possible-to-use-thunkable-as-interface-to-attach-any-file-from-my-iphone-into-airtable/1140700/3 "2021-03-03T21:50:41Z")
Airtable only supports files from fully qualified URLs so you might need to try to upload your file to a temporary file server first and obtain the URL of the uploaded file then use it for Airtable.
I have not tried it myself but one thing I know is Airtable will not use local file path.
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2021, 10:06pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-it-possible-to-use-thunkable-as-interface-to-attach-any-file-from-my-iphone-into-airtable/1140700/4 "2021-03-03T22:06:30Z")
I think @muneer is right. From their community forums:
> **[Pro-grammatically upload/create attachments](https://community.airtable.com/t/pro-grammatically-upload-create-attachments/32106/2)**
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> Welcome to the Airtable community! In order to upload an attachment with the API, the attachment must first exist at a publicly accessible url. So, you must first upload your attachment to some other web service, get the url for it, then use that...
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### Author:  [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2021, 10:23pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-it-possible-to-use-thunkable-as-interface-to-attach-any-file-from-my-iphone-into-airtable/1140700/5 "2021-03-03T22:23:20Z")
Which means that Thunkable has a neat solution for image files as you will pick the file and upload to cloudinary and obtain the URL from cloudinary to supply it to Airtable.
For other types, a separate solution need to be developed.
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### Author:  [@ealalin13s68](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ealalin13s68)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2021, 10:30pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-it-possible-to-use-thunkable-as-interface-to-attach-any-file-from-my-iphone-into-airtable/1140700/6 "2021-03-03T22:30:22Z")
thx for the info , I will search in this area. huummm but in my airtable I have put directly from my pc excel and word document even a video with mp4 !!! manually not via thunkable .the ttachement field are not URL 
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### Author:  [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2021, 2:48am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-it-possible-to-use-thunkable-as-interface-to-attach-any-file-from-my-iphone-into-airtable/1140700/7 "2021-03-04T02:48:25Z")
Yes, you can use the dashboard/console of Airtable to upload files to your table but this cannot be done through other applications.
It is also worth to note that when you try to retrieve this field you will receive a JSON structure and not the uploaded file directly.
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### Author:  [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 1:29pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-it-possible-to-use-thunkable-as-interface-to-attach-any-file-from-my-iphone-into-airtable/1140700/8 "2024-11-08T13:29:04Z")