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I am having set of controls on a screen that patch to a SharePoint list. These fields are outside the edit/new form due to specific layout requirements.

I am being asked to have multiple attachment fields on the screen in question, all of which are submitting to the same SharePoint list attachment field. I was able to make use of a single attachment control in a edit form(imbedded in the screen) that has only one attachment control, then I submit the form, I use a lookup and patch the rest of the fields in the screen. This approach is very complicated for multiple attachment fields as Submit Form function does not update the list based on ID.

I believe that the isolated attachment control does not work with patch function. If so, is there a way for me to have multiple attachment controls on a single screen submitting to SharePoint list .

Below is the screen shot of the section that was proposed in a mockup-up.

My question is: if there is a way to do this and if so is it architecturally sound. Thanks/

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WarrenBelz 153,073 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @nemanjasovic011 ,

A SharePoint list only ever contains one Attachment field. You can have multiple controls if you want, but they will all show the same attachments once they are saved (no matter which control they are saved on).

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Hi Warren,

It also appears that there would be an issue with submission as each attachment control is tie to a form and I am not sure if there is a way to update item from two different forms on the same screen?

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Hi @nemanjasovic011

check https://youtu.be/hJQjGE-oUpM

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@RezaDorrani ,

Very nice - I have filtered attachment controls by file type and name before (controlling the name by using a Flow to attach), but your solution (as usual) is very neat and all in Power Apps.

@nemanjasovic011 , I suggest you watch the video.

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This is the approach we are going to take.

A subsite of uploaded files are passed to the collection that is displayed in the gallery. I am hoping that I can filter elements(files) that are passed to this collection based on the tags. Only elements that correspond to one tag should be passed to "gallery collection" .

Thank you.

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