Getting media file URL (link) in child form

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Dear Community,
When creating a child form, I encountered a problem - getting the URL of a media file from the parent form in the child form.

When exporting a media file field to an XLS file. The media file gets 2 fields(columns):
Photo1 => file name

Photo1_URL => full link to the file itself in the data store.

When accessing the media file from the child form, I can only use the field containing the name of the media file - Photo1
When accessing the Photo1_URL field, I get an empty field. The error handler does not swear at this event.

Question - How to get the full link to the uploaded mediafile in the child form.
(How to get the data stored in the Photo1_URL column, if we consider XLS export as an example).

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Welcome to the community, @Serhii! Please be informed that you should only be able to pull information from a parent form to a child form for those variables/questions that you define in your form/question. Anything outside that (meaning any variables created by the system) cannot be linked to the child form.

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Thanks @KaL_Lam for the complete answer
It’s a “sad answer.” because it adds a lot of additional actions in post processing of child form results.

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