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In power pages i made a that contains lot of fields and 3 fields of type files , all field works perfectly only the files type fields , i can't add an attachement in them and it says "This record hasn't been created yet. To enable image upload, create this record"

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Kalathiya 1,732 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hello @CU09031515-0,

This is actually the default behavior in Microsoft Power Pages. File/Image columns can only upload files after the record has been created, because the file needs an existing record ID to attach to.

A common way to handle this is: (Basic or Multi Step Form)
- First create/save the record with the other fields.
- After the record is created, edit the record and upload the files.

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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-pages/configure/file-column

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Lucas001 2,541 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @CU09031515-0,

you can see the behaviour as well in your ModelDrivenApp you are probably using as backend.

As stated above by @Kalathiya the record must be created and an attachment can later be attached to the record.

One approach which works really well is using the mulitstep form. These forms are going to create a record when they are started and you can add an attachement on the second step. Styling is working as well with some CSS.

What you can also do is use cloud flows running after each other responding with a state 200 and the recordId. You can than add the file content as well as input for the second flow. Longer to setup and more to take care about. If you have the option, try the multistep form.

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Fubar 8,487 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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As per other posts, for most file upload the base record need to exist first.

However, there is one option that does not need the base record to exist first and that is if you use Notes attachments (instead of file fields). For Notes attachments there are 2 ways to do them, one is through the configuration of a metadata record (this still requires the base record to exist first), the second way is to enable the file upload on the Basic form or Step (if using a multi step form) by setting the Attach File options on the form/step itself (you would need to use the Power Pages Management app to configure this).

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-pages/configure/basic-forms#additional-settings

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DP_Prabh 354 on at

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Hi @CU09031515-0,

This is default behavior but if you want users to be able to upload files when adding a new record this is possible follow the steps given in this Microsoft article: Set up notes as attachments for basic and multistep forms | Microsoft Learn

When adding new record, it would show like this (you can customize the UI experience accordingly)

Also, you can define number of files, size of files and where the files metadata should be store either in notes (table of Dataverse) or in Azure blob storage.

I hope this solve your problem.

If not, you can pin me anytime. Happy to help!

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Kalathiya 1,732 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hello @CU09031515-0

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