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Handling files uploaded to a repeating section

  • July 13, 2026
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I’m working on an inspection checklist that allows the user to upload multiple photos so they can be renamed and inserted into a report document. My current approach is to use a repeating section with the inspection location (single-choice) and file upload (restricted to image). My assumption was that I could traverse the resulting collection, extract each row as a collection, then parse out the contents of that row. Unfortunately I can’t extract the row as a collection, just as a chunk of json code, which isn’t terribly useful.

Is what I am trying to do even possible or should I go straight to plan B (which is to make each row a pair of stand-alone controls vs the repeating section)?

Thanks!

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  • Nintex Employee
  • July 13, 2026

Hi ​@Chris Wheeldon 

If you put the repeating section form variable in a loop for each action you should be able to access the current item variable it creates and then iterate through the file collection variable for the file upload control.  It should look something like this:

 


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Hi ​@brent_read  - that works! I was trying to do it using Loop N Times, which doesn’t create that access to the individual collection item. Thank-you!