Dear Softr Team,
Could you please add the feature in list views to upload a placeholder image that will be displayed when the Attachment field is empty in Airtable?
This would be great for:
- Profile photos
- Company logos
- General images
Since Airtable doesn’t provide the functionality to automatically associate new records with an image, it would save a significant amount of manual effort.
The placeholder image would intuitively signal to users that they can upload their image at the displayed position and update the data.
I’ve used this feature in an app builder before, and I miss it here.
Since Airtable doesn’t provide the functionality to automatically associate new records with an image, it would save a significant amount of manual effort.
An Airtable automation could handle this and save the manual effort 
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Hey Mark, thanks a lot for your feedback. That would be a temporary solution. Could you possibly describe how the automation is set up? I’m not really an Airtable pro, unfortunately 
I have a few of these scenarios in my app and I use Airtable automations to add a default image to the attachment field upon record creation. I keep an image/icon table dedicated to images in my base and one of the records is called “Default Image” with an attachment field called “Image_File”.
Now you can create an Airtable automation with the following details:
Trigger: “When record created” (configure this step to watch for new records being created)
Action 1:“Find record” (find your Default Image record in your image/icon table"
Action 2: “Update record” (update your record by adding the Default Image value to your attachment field).
Here’s an example of one of mine:
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That’s pretty cool 
Thanks a bunch for your explanation 
I’ll give it a try.
Is it like a lookup function, where the database only contains a few specific images, or does Airtable duplicate the image every time? This could lead to large quantities in the base pretty quickly.
You could do it either way. The method above would copy the file.
I also have scenarios where I use a linked record to select an image from my image table. If you do it this way, it will simply link to your image file. This is beneficial in many ways, especially if you want to regularly update that image and have the change flow downstream to all of it’s linked records automatically.
Ah, I understand 
Thanks a lot!
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I implemented your suggestion - it works Thank you!
@Softr - I would still appreciate having the function in the future. However, this workaround works, although it’s not as optimal. For example, when updating a profile picture, logo, etc., you always have to delete the existing placeholder image first and then add the new one. The placeholder picture was also recently added to the header menu.
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