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I have an attachment control in Powerapps EditForm. If i delete the documents which i uploaded, its deleting wrong documents.

May i know what is incorrect here?

In the screenshots below, I tried deleting 2nd document (i.e. Supp_Doc4pdf.pdf), however it deletes the first one.

Attachments Items Property

Filter(
 Documents,
 Unique_Submission_ID = ThisItem.Unique_Submission_Id&& 'Folder path' = "Shared Documents/Quotation/" &DataCardValue3_2.Text&"/" 
)

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WarrenBelz 153,073 Most Valuable Professional on at

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@Iantaylor2050 ,

The issue I believe is your Items (normally it is simply ThisItem.Attachments). Although the attachment control will respond to other code, inbuilt functions such as you are attempting may be completely throw it off - it has no idea what to delete are you are no longer referring to the files it is expecting to see there.

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Hi @WarrenBelz

I am not using SharePoint list attachment column here. Hence i couldn't use ThisItem. Attachments.

All my documents come from document library. Is there any alternative way to handle this?

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Hi @Iantaylor2050 ,

The attachment control will have absolutely no idea of that to delete as I mentioned. A lot of workarounds are possible with it, but I think your requirements are "a bridge too far". I think you need to use a Gallery and refer to the ID of the item and delete it with a Flow.

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Hi @WarrenBelz

Yes i am planning to use gallery in EditForm. Deletion of documents will be much easier if i use gallery.

However is there any way where i can add documents to Gallery which should get stored in document library?

Any article on the same would be much helpful.

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Hi @Iantaylor2050 ,

I know we are dealing with two related threads here, but there is nothing wrong with using an attachment control to store files in a Library (I do it this way on many apps). I just do not use that control for anything else other than this purpose.

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Hi @WarrenBelz

I am using attachment control to add additional documents in Edit Form. However i am receiving error for the same.

Is it because of my Items property of the attachment control?

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Hi @Iantaylor2050 ,

I would have a good guess and say yes to that. If you are going to repurpose an attachment control, you really can only use it for that purpose.

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