# File gallery from a linked record's attachment field

**URL:** <https://community.noloco.io/t/file-gallery-from-a-linked-records-attachment-field/873>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Tags:** feature-request\
**Created:** [June 21, 2024, 2:05pm UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/file-gallery-from-a-linked-records-attachment-field/873 "2024-06-21T14:05:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 2:05pm UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/file-gallery-from-a-linked-records-attachment-field/873/1 "2024-06-21T14:05:35Z")

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**Feature Request: File gallery from a linked record’s attachment field**

- Right now, the Gallery block can only display files from an attachment field in the current record’s table.
- Similar to the Details block, which can be “rooted” in any linked field from the current record’s table, I would love if we could “root” Gallery blocks in an attachment field from any of the current record’s linked fields.

**Example**

- You have a Sales Interaction record, and you open it.
- PDF reports for each Sales Interaction record lives in a linked “Report” record.
- In other words, Sales Interaction \> links to a Report record \> Report record contains the attachment field.
- So now, you’re in the Sales Interaction record and want to display the related Report. So you use a lookup field in the Sales Interaction record, which pulls the attachment from the Report record. Then you display that lookup field in a Gallery block. Problem solved.
- But the problem is that when the Report’s attachment field is updated (attachment is deleted, added, etc), it takes a long time to be reflected in the attachment lookup within the Sales Interaction record.
- Another possible workaround is to use a Details block within the Sales Interaction record, and root it in the related “Report” record, and display the attachment. However, PDFs do not display visually in-line, nor are they expanded the way a Gallery block is.

**Ideal Solution**

- You can create a Gallery block, and choose which linked record you want to use for it (or you can use the current record).
- After choosing the linked record (or not choosing one), you choose the attachment field to display.
- Problem solved, immediate loadtime, and no lookups.