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I have 6 image column in SharePoint which are named Image1, Image2, Image3 and so on. I need to download all these image columns on the download button click inside the Gallery. May i know how to achieve this?

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Unfortunately, Power Apps Canvas Apps do not provide a native way to download multiple files/images directly to a user's device with a single button click.

The approach depends on where your images are stored and how you want users to receive them.

For your current setup with six SharePoint Image columns, the best solution is:

Use a Power Automate flow that collects all image columns, creates a ZIP file, stores it temporarily in SharePoint/OneDrive, and returns a download link to Power Apps.

This provides a single-click download experience and is much easier for users than downloading six images individually.

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Hi @Iantaylor2050,

The fundamental problem you have is the way that SharePoint Image files are stored. Both the Launch and Download functions require a URL (a Library file has 'Link to item' and Attachments have AbsoluteUri, both of which are URLs pointing directly at a physical file and the path at which it is stored). An image control simply contains the content of the image stored.

You can however get them emailed to you one at a time - display them in Image Control and have a button/icon under each one with (using the Image control name - Image1 below)

Office365Outlook.SendEmailV2( User().Email, "Image File 1", "Attached is file", { Attachments: { Name: "FirstImage.jpg", ContentBytes: Image1.Image } } ); Notify( "Image has been emailed to you" NotificationType.Success, 4000 )

There is a longer path using Power Automate, but the result (files mailed back to you) would be the same.

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@Iantaylor2050

there's no native multi-file download in canvas apps, and it comes down to how SharePoint image columns store the data.

If you want a proper single-click "download all six" experience, the Power Automate route is the way:

Pass the gallery item ID to a flow, then inside the flow use Get item, grab each of the six image columns, and run them through Get file content using path (the image column value holds a server-relative path you can resolve). Add each one to a Create archive / Zip step, drop the zip into a temp SharePoint or OneDrive folder, then return the file link back to the app and open it with Launch().

The email approach Warren posted is genuinely the quickest if you only need them occasionally — but for a clean download button, the zip-via-flow is what I'd build. One thing to watch: SharePoint image columns store a JSON value, so you'll need to parse out the file reference before fetching the content

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Hi @Iantaylor2050,

Actually you can do the lot at once (assuming each field has an image in it). The same as before, but put them all in a Table first.
With( { _Files: Table( { Name: "Image1.jpg", Value: FirstImage.Image }, { Name: "Image2.jpg", Value: SecondImage.Image }, { Name: "Image3.jpg", Value: ThirdImage.Image }, { Name: "Image4.jpg", Value: FourthImage.Image }, { Name: "Image5.jpg", Value: FifthImage.Image }, { Name: "Image6.jpg", Value: SixthImage.Image } ) }, Office365Outlook.SendEmailV2( User().Email, "Image Files", "Attached are the files", { Attachments: ForAll( _Files As F, { Name: F.Name, ContentBytes: F.Value } ) } ) )

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