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Store Attachement in collection and patch it to sharepoint later on

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Hi everyone,

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I developed an app with two forms that are based on two sharepoint lists. One of the forms includes an attachement function.

Problem:

To make the app suitable for offline usage I decided to store the sharepoint lists in two collections with the clearcollect function and reupload the stored data including the user inputs with the patch function when the user has finished his inputs and is back online. That works for all the text inputs but not for the attachements.

Question:

Is there an opportunity to also store the attachements to the same collection and patch the attachements to the sharepoint list later on?

Thank you in advance for your support,

Malte

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WarrenBelz 156,570 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @Anonymous ,

I will give you a start here - this video from @RezaDorrani explains how to store attachments in a collection (for another purpose). I believe you could use this for what you are trying to achieve.

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Hi @WarrenBelz,

thanks for the quick answer. Unfortunatly i need to add the attachements in the same collection as the information out of the sharepointlist and not a seperate collections as it is shown in the video. Any ideas on how to do that and on how to patch the attachements in the collection back to the sharepointlist?

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Hi @Anonymous ,

Not without a lot of effort. You would need to use the collection table is per the video individually for each record and then create a table field in your "main" collection with the content of the attachment collection. A far easier way is to add a field to the attachment collection with a unique identifier from the main collection.

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