# Upload picture to airtable in a adalo form

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**Created:** [February 26, 2021, 11:06am UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/upload-picture-to-airtable-in-a-adalo-form/9680 "2021-02-26T11:06:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 26, 2021, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/upload-picture-to-airtable-in-a-adalo-form/9680/2 "2021-02-26T13:54:34Z")

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Hi @rawagmbh,

Welcome to the forum!

I don’t think you can upload images directly to an external collection in Airtable.  
You could try the workaround (I assume you have an image picker and upload button)

- create external collection (Airtable)
- add temporary Image property to user
- on “upload” button, add an action to update logged-in user with the image from image picker
- create a custom action to create new record in airtable (POST), and construct the JSON in a way, that it gets image URL from logged-in user temp image’s URL.
- with this, airtable will “copy” the image to the collection.  
I tried this approach, worked for me.

You can also have a look at this thread: [Downloading images from an Adalo collection - #7 by rregueira](https://forum.adalo.com/t/downloading-images-from-an-adalo-collection/6890/7)  
Using Integromat might be a possible solution as well.

Best regards, Victor.

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