# Image carousel with Airtable & Image picker not working anymore

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/image-carousel-with-airtable-image-picker-not-working-anymore/64918>\
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**Created:** [August 11, 2023, 8:14am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/image-carousel-with-airtable-image-picker-not-working-anymore/64918 "2023-08-11T08:14:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![PrinzPhotography](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/prinzphotography/32/62787_2.png) [@PrinzPhotography](https://community.glideapps.com/u/PrinzPhotography)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 8:14am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/image-carousel-with-airtable-image-picker-not-working-anymore/64918/1 "2023-08-11T08:14:14Z")

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Hello,

since today, my working image carousel isn’t showing multiple images anymore. Just if i have a single one, it is showing.

What i use the app for:

i have two views. One as a customer and the other one as an admin.

a customer upload the photos and a admin has to review them. So i can’t just use the multiple images column to show the images.

My workflow:

- a user upload some photos via the image picker and these photos are uploading into a Glide column → Multiple Images
- after that, i have a Glide → Array to Set column, that hold the links of the previous uploaded images
- the user submits the upload via a Button, that triggers a Zap in Zapier. This zap takes the links from the Glide → Array to set column and store them in an Attachment column in Airtable.

In Airtable, i can see the images as image again and the image component showed me a carousel of them. But since yesterday, this isn’t working anymore. The image component just show me an image, if in the Airtable attachment column is exactly 1 photo. If there are more, nothing shows up in Glide.

I noticed, that the attachment column i created in Airtable is shown as URL column in Glide. This also is new since yesterday. Before that, it was a non editable files column, like in airtable.

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 9:07am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/image-carousel-with-airtable-image-picker-not-working-anymore/64918/2 "2023-08-11T09:07:24Z")

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Why aren’t you just pointing the image component to the multiple images column. Fine if you also want a copy of the links stored in Airtable, but it you also have the original glide column, why not use it?

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**Author:** ![PrinzPhotography](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/prinzphotography/32/62787_2.png) [@PrinzPhotography](https://community.glideapps.com/u/PrinzPhotography)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 11:57am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/image-carousel-with-airtable-image-picker-not-working-anymore/64918/3 "2023-08-11T11:57:22Z")

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Sorry, i forgot to tell why i do this.

I have two views, one as a customer and the other one as an admin. If i use the multiple image column of glide, the admin can’t see the images because they are user specific

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 1:00pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/image-carousel-with-airtable-image-picker-not-working-anymore/64918/4 "2023-08-11T13:00:25Z")

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Got it. That’s an annoying side effect of using an external data source. I don’t know why they force user specific in that case. I don’t see any reason why they couldn’t technically allow for columns to be added to an Airtable table, but still live in Glide’s storage as a non user specific column.

If you use a glide table, the column would not be required to be user specific. If you have the option, I’d say create a Glide Table, at least to store the images, then use a relation column to link the original table to your images table.

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**Author:** ![PrinzPhotography](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/prinzphotography/32/62787_2.png) [@PrinzPhotography](https://community.glideapps.com/u/PrinzPhotography)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 3:00pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/image-carousel-with-airtable-image-picker-not-working-anymore/64918/5 "2023-08-11T15:00:32Z")

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Nice idea, but i noticed, you can’t chose a relation column for the source of an image component -.-

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 3:34pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/image-carousel-with-airtable-image-picker-not-working-anymore/64918/6 "2023-08-11T15:34:05Z")

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No, because a relation is a link to rows. Not specific columns. If you need a specific column from a relation, then you also need a Lookup or Single Value column that retrieves a specific column value from the relation.

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 11:19pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/image-carousel-with-airtable-image-picker-not-working-anymore/64918/7 "2023-08-11T23:19:36Z")

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I can confirm that the image component does work with a lookup.

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**Author:** ![PrinzPhotography](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/prinzphotography/32/62787_2.png) [@PrinzPhotography](https://community.glideapps.com/u/PrinzPhotography)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 6:53am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/image-carousel-with-airtable-image-picker-not-working-anymore/64918/8 "2023-08-15T06:53:40Z")

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Hey,

yeah it does work.I tried it. But still no chance to do the carousel again. I don’t know why the Glide column changed from a Atatchment Field to a URL field. And every new attatchment column i create in airtable is also a url column in glide now.
