"Make this File private and attach this file to" possible improvements

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@JonL

The problem is for that field to work, the thing needs to exist previously.
So basically you can’t use that property of the element when you are creating something from scratch.
Thus my proposal to move it to the workflow system to give more flexibility.

We had the same issue.

I figured it out, attaching it to the current user first.
Once you created a thing, you trigger a backend workflow that re-uploads the file and attaches it to the created thing. Then, you delete the previous file.