# Attach images/PDF to an encounter

**URL:** <https://community.open-emr.org/t/attach-images-pdf-to-an-encounter/22134>\
**Category:** Day-to-Day Users\
**Created:** [February 29, 2024, 12:30am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/attach-images-pdf-to-an-encounter/22134 "2024-02-29T00:30:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![urologist](https://community.open-emr.org/user_avatar/community.open-emr.org/urologist/32/19295_2.png) [@urologist](https://community.open-emr.org/u/urologist)\
**Post date:** [February 29, 2024, 12:30am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/attach-images-pdf-to-an-encounter/22134/1 "2024-02-29T00:30:27Z")

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Hi all,

I’ve searched for a way to attach images/PDF to an encounter note, but I haven’t seen any straightforward way to accomplish this. Was hoping for some guidance!

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**Author:** ![Dennison\_Williams](https://community.open-emr.org/user_avatar/community.open-emr.org/dennison_williams/32/14724_2.png) [@Dennison\_Williams](https://community.open-emr.org/u/Dennison_Williams)\
**Post date:** [February 29, 2024, 6:07pm UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/attach-images-pdf-to-an-encounter/22134/2 "2024-02-29T18:07:54Z")

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Hi Arpan,

There is no way that I know of to associate an attachment with an enounter. You could write a [custom module](https://github.com/adunsulag/oe-module-custom-skeleton) that did this. I recomend, uploading the douments assoiated with the encounter to the douments section of the patients chart (`patient -> documents`) and referencing them from the visit notes.

Thanks,

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**Author:** ![htuck](https://community.open-emr.org/user_avatar/community.open-emr.org/htuck/32/15185_2.png) [@htuck](https://community.open-emr.org/u/htuck)\
**Post date:** [February 29, 2024, 10:00pm UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/attach-images-pdf-to-an-encounter/22134/3 "2024-02-29T22:00:40Z")

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It appears that @Dennison_Williams module has already been incorporated into the Documents tree feature. It’s a little complicated and I haven’t seen any other docs for it so I’m writing those now, will post to wiki as soon as I get them ready to publish. Things are somewhat counter intuitive and don’t do exactly what one would assume; I’m trying to track down those idiosyncrasies. If you discover some please share!

Long story short, you upload a file to the documents tree then go back and click on the filename.  
A dialog opens with a bunch of options (‘Properties’) to set, like which encounter to associate (‘tag’) it to, etc etc. When associated, a link appears in the encounter that lets you open the attachment for viewing / downloading.

Here’s the options window with your choices:

 ![image](https://discourse-uploads-openemr.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/original/3X/6/2/620da58f36195020c5412504d5f28441eb266c7d.png)

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**Author:** ![urologist](https://community.open-emr.org/user_avatar/community.open-emr.org/urologist/32/19295_2.png) [@urologist](https://community.open-emr.org/u/urologist)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2024, 6:43am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/attach-images-pdf-to-an-encounter/22134/4 "2024-03-01T06:43:12Z")

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This is great, thanks!

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**Author:** ![sjpadgett](https://community.open-emr.org/user_avatar/community.open-emr.org/sjpadgett/32/21623_2.png) [@sjpadgett](https://community.open-emr.org/u/sjpadgett)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2024, 1:50pm UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/attach-images-pdf-to-an-encounter/22134/5 "2024-03-01T13:50:39Z")

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This feature has been around for years!