Reupload images in Embadded forms

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Hello Camunda community!
Here I’ve got a simple workflow where a user is supposed to add some images in task ‘upload image’ after that, a user is able to browse it in task ‘open image’ then the workflow goes to task ‘upload image’ again where 1 or 2 images are to be reuploaded and so on.

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These are the code from the embadded forms which were created according to this: https://docs.camunda.org/manual/7.8/reference/embedded-forms/controls/files/#uploading-files

form 1:

<form role="form">
        <html lang="en">
        <head>
            <meta charset="utf-8">
        </head>

        <h3>Фотографии</h3>
        <div class="row justify-content-center">
            <div class="col-md-3">
                <label for="housePhoto">Фото дома</label>
                <input type="file" id="housePhoto"
                       cam-variable-name="housePhoto"
                       cam-variable-type="File"
                       cam-max-filesize="10000000" />
            </div>
            <div class="col-md-3">
                <label for="schemaPhoto">Фото схемы дома</label>
                <input type="file" id="schemaPhoto"
                       cam-variable-name="schemaPhoto"
                       cam-variable-type="File"
                       cam-max-filesize="10000000" />
            </div>
        </div>

        </body>
        </html>
    </form>

form 2:

<form role="form">
    <html lang="en">
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8">
    </head>

    <h3>Фотографии</h3>

    <h4 class="mb-3">Фото дома:</h4>
    <div class="mb-3">
        <input type="hidden" cam-variable-name="housePhoto" />
        <img src="{{ camForm.variableManager.variable('housePhoto').contentUrl }}" width="35%" height="35%" onerror="this.style.display='none'"/>
    </div>
    <h4 class="mb-3">Фото схемы дома:</h4>
    <div class="mb-3">
        <input type="hidden" cam-variable-name="schemaPhoto" />
        <img src="{{ camForm.variableManager.variable('schemaPhoto').contentUrl }}" width="35%" height="35%" onerror="this.style.display='none'"/>
    </div>

    </body>
    </html>
</form>

My problem is: whenever an image is reuploaded, the other image is erased. When I want to change only ‘schemaPhoto’ variable ‘housePhoto’ variable is also affected after the task is compleated.
I’ve also tried to create another proccess with the 3d task ‘reupload image’ and set ‘Asynchronous before’ in modeler:

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but nothing has changed.
I wish there would be a solution, any help will be greatly valued!

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As you’ve experienced, because of the way the input fields are bound using cam-variable-name, when you revisit the form you are overwriting the process variables with empty data. Something similar is discussed in this thread with regards to making an input field optional. You can do something custom so you’re not using the cam-variable-name and cam-variable-type directives or you can add something like the following to remove the variables that do not contain a file from the form before submitting:

<script cam-script type="text/form-script">
      camForm.on('submit', function() {
        camForm.fields = camForm.fields.filter(field => {
            if (document.getElementById(field.variableName).files.length == 0) {
                camForm.variableManager.destroyVariable(field.variableName);
                return false;
            }
            return true;
        });
      });
    </script>
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