If you ever find yourself uploading lots of attachments to Airtable this automation can seriously speed up your workflow! It automatically matches your files to their appropriate records in Airtable using the filename and a unique ID field in Airtable. This way you can upload hundreds of files to Airtable in seconds!
Partial matching can be used to upload multiple files per record, by appending additional characters in the file name, e.g. Test1.jpg, Test.png, Test2.jpg would all match to a record whose Unique ID is “Test”.
Use Cases
- Upload profile images for employees, students or clients
- Upload invoices in bulk and match them to records based on an invoice number
