# How to add attachment in the Tulip APP?

**URL:** <https://community.tulip.co/t/how-to-add-attachment-in-the-tulip-app/5775>\
**Category:** Developer\
**Tags:** custom-widgets\
**Created:** [July 12, 2022, 7:42am UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/how-to-add-attachment-in-the-tulip-app/5775 "2022-07-12T07:42:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![lusonghua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lusonghua](https://community.tulip.co/u/lusonghua)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2022, 7:42am UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/how-to-add-attachment-in-the-tulip-app/5775/1 "2022-07-12T07:42:12Z")

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What if I want to upload some files, such as pdf, ppt, doc, excel, etc

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**Author:** ![Pete\_Hartnett](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/pete_hartnett/32/3678_2.png) [@Pete\_Hartnett](https://community.tulip.co/u/Pete_Hartnett)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2022, 10:31pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/how-to-add-attachment-in-the-tulip-app/5775/2 "2022-08-08T22:31:23Z")

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Hey @lusonghua

Not sure how this one snuck through. Check out this thread to see a widget that encodes files as base64, from here they can be added to tables under the image type.

> [@Attachment SendGRid](https://community.tulip.co/t/attachment-sendgrid/5893/15):
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> Hey @FahdERM - Totally. The “Attachments” property in the SendGrid connector function is actually a list: "attachments":[{ "content": "$Attachment\_b64$", "type": "application/pdf", "filename": "my\_file.pdf", "disposition":"attachment" }], What this means is you can pass multiple files to it with additional file upload custom widgets. "attachments":[ { "content": "$Attachment\_b64$", "type": "application…

There is working coming very very soon to support this natively within tables with a _file_ variable type.

Pete

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**Author:** ![RussWaddell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/russwaddell/32/3774_2.png) [@RussWaddell](https://community.tulip.co/u/RussWaddell)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/how-to-add-attachment-in-the-tulip-app/5775/3 "2022-08-09T13:59:00Z")

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Closing this as duplicate; see answer in link from @Pete_Hartnett above.

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**Author:** ![RussWaddell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/russwaddell/32/3774_2.png) [@RussWaddell](https://community.tulip.co/u/RussWaddell)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/how-to-add-attachment-in-the-tulip-app/5775/4 "2022-08-09T13:59:03Z")

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Files are now supported in tables! Check out the release notes here:

> [@Release 236 - September 2022](https://community.tulip.co/t/release-236-september-2022/6366):
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> This release is a bit shorter but don’t let that fool you… there are some really exciting updates in this release! Rolling out to most accounts on 9/14, users can now upload PDFs and other file types into Tulip tables! [image] [image] iphone App Editor You can now add triggers to input components that fire when the enter key is pressed This is a very exciting update… you can now store documents in Tulip tables! This includes PDF, XLSX, DOCX, STL files and more. Files can be uploaded dire…

Pete