Model Driven App - Image column does not copy

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I built a copy command in a Model Driven app. The command successfully copies all the fields in the original record to the new record, except for the image field. Does anyone know if there is something special I need to do to copy an image?

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SaiRT14 1,992 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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In Model-Driven Apps using Dataverse, copying an image field from one record to another can be a bit tricky because image fields (primary image or additional image columns) are handled differently than standard fields.

Image fields in Dataverse store binary data. They are not directly accessible like text or numeric fields in some operations. You need to explicitly retrieve the image data and set it for the new record.

Power Automate can be used to handle image copying as part of the "copy record" logic.

let me know if you need steps in power automate.

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Is there a way to trigger a power automate flow in a model driven command?

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If you use the Power FX command in a Model-Driven App you unfortunately can't copy the image column. It has to do with how Dataverse stores and references the Image file. You CAN do it with a JavaScript Command button in Model-Driven Apps, however.

I have a blog post on this, and my code is there. You'd just have to update for your purposes.

https://marknanneman.wordpress.com/2024/11/27/how-to-copy-dataverse-records-including-image-columns-and-lookups-using-a-command-button-in-a-model-driven-app/

If you want to stay low code you can, as SaiRt14 suggested, do this in Power Automate. You'd just have your command button update a special column on the record, and a flow that is set to run on that column being updated for a record would trigger, then that flow creates a new record, downloads the image from the original, uploads the image to the new one, etc.

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