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How to I program an icon in my power app to trigger a click of my camera control?

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In my app I have a camera control and a camera icon. I want the user to be able to click on a camera icon so that it triggers the same effect as clicking on the camera control. The OnSelect code for the camera control "Camera1" is the following:

Set(
 varName,
 GUID()
);
Collect(
	colImages,
	{
		DisplayName: varName & ".jpg",
		Id: varName & ".jpg",
		Value: Camera1.Photo
	}
);

Meanwhile, the OnSelect code for the camera icon is the following:

Select(Camera1)

The OnSelect code for Camera1 works perfectly, but for some reason, whenever the user click's on the camera icon, it takes a blank photo and fails to add it to the attachment list. My app is modeled after this Reza Dorrani youtube video. Does anyone know why that my Select(Camera1) code for the camera icon is not working? How can I get this camera icon to behave exactly the way Camera1 does?

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WarrenBelz 156,454 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @powaya ,

Please have a look at the first part of this blog of mine as I use a camera button on it to initiate an action. I capture the camera Stream, so please see if this suits your model.

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Hi @powaya ,
Just checking if you got the result you were looking for on this thread. Happy to help further if not.

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Hi @WarrenBelz ! Thanks for your response. I'm new to this so I had a hard time understanding what the code in your “Camera” icon OnSelect is doing. I'm curious why clicking on my camera icon can't simply trigger the OnSelect code of my Camera1 using the code below (note: Camera1 is the beige block at the top of my screenshot, above my camera icon)

Select(Camera1)

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Hi @powaya ,

My blog was simply an example of one way of achieving the result. You can certainly click on the camera control, but your post had an icon, so I assumed that is how you wanted to trigger it.

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@WarrenBelz I want clicking on both of these to do the same thing. The code for clicking on the image preview (I pasted it below) works perfectly. Now I want clicking the camera icon to mimic that same action. What's the best way to do that?

Set( varName, GUID() ); Collect( colImages, { DisplayName: varName & ".jpg", Id: varName & ".jpg", Value: Camera1.Photo } );

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@powaya ,

Add to the OnSelect of the Camera control.

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@WarrenBelz That's where that code currently resides, on the OnSelect of the camera control. But when I add that same code to the OnSelect of the camera icon, then clicking on the camera icon simply adds an additional copy of the most recent photo that was taken, as opposed to taking a new photo. Do you know why that is?

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Check this explanation in this Youtube video which explains exactly this.

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