# Image field / Multiple files / Multiple Images
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/image-field-multiple-files-multiple-images/78541
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [December 12, 2024, 10:08am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/image-field-multiple-files-multiple-images/78541 "2024-12-12T10:08:12Z")
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Davies](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Andrew_Davies)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2024, 10:08am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/image-field-multiple-files-multiple-images/78541/1 "2024-12-12T10:08:12Z")
Hi
I am giving users the ability to upload a Photo (from the camera or a saved file) OR a PDF through one file chooser.
I have it working nicely using a Multiple Files column (then encoding the file to base64 to upload through an API)
But my external application (accountancy software) can only accept 1 file - so if the user uploads 2 or 3 files, they are ignored.
I can not use the Image Field (which only allows one file to be uploaded at a time) as it does not allow you to upload PDFs for example.
Does anyone know of a way of limiting Multiple Files to only allow one file to be uploaded (unlikely) - or allowing the Image field to accept documents (also unlikely!)
Not a biggie - but thought I would ask,.
Andrew
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2024, 10:31am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/image-field-multiple-files-multiple-images/78541/2 "2024-12-12T10:31:57Z")
If you don’t want to accept multiple files, then don’t use a multiple files column? 🤷♂️
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Davies](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Andrew_Davies)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2024, 10:43am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/image-field-multiple-files-multiple-images/78541/3 "2024-12-12T10:43:23Z")
Thanks - but what can I use instead?
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2024, 10:48am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/image-field-multiple-files-multiple-images/78541/4 "2024-12-12T10:48:54Z")
Just a text or URL column type should work fine.
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Davies](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Andrew_Davies)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2024, 12:01pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/image-field-multiple-files-multiple-images/78541/5 "2024-12-12T12:01:24Z")
Just to be sure -
Ahh got you - sometimes it’s the simplest things… 🤦
I thought the file picker had to write to a multiple files column (for some reason).
Of course it can write to an image column too (or URL column) which only allows one upload at a time.
doohhhh. Thanks Darren
PS - I was also thrown as you can’t upload a file to an image column through the builder - but you can through a file picker component (in my defence!)
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2024, 12:43am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/image-field-multiple-files-multiple-images/78541/6 "2024-12-13T00:43:50Z")
> [@Andrew\_Davies](#):
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> I was also thrown as you can’t upload a file to an image column through the builder
You can do that, then switch the image column to text. I do this all the time.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.glideapps.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2024, 12:44am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/image-field-multiple-files-multiple-images/78541/7 "2024-12-20T00:44:13Z")
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