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Attach image or take picture on Form with Excel Table Datasource

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Posted on by kkindness

Hello, I have built a form (for manufacturing problem reporting) that is connected to an Excel Table. In the form there is a spot to attach a picture to illustrate the problem being described in the form. I would like users to be able to select a photograph, or use the camera to take a picture, and store that image with the record so it can be viewed on the form later. I have read some other posts but am not understanding if a Gallery is required to store the image (whether it's one or multiple), or if I can upload the picture to be stored in the excel table datasource. I inserted an "Add Picture" media control, which lets me attach a picture, but when I save the form and re-open that record to view or edit the picture is not there.

Can anyone help?

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ArchitectMadhan 1,584 on at

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Hi @kkindness ,

You can have a image control in the Gallery, which will get the path of the image dynamically from the OneDrive. The image files has to be uploaded to OneDrive and store the path in your excel sheet. As you are using the excel sheet content as data source for your gallery it will not be a problem for you.

Ref: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Power-Apps/Save-and-display-saved-pictures-with-excel-on-onedrive/m-p/1373652

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kkindness 6 on at

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Thanks for the reply. I looked at the article that you linked, but it didn't work.

If I set the image in my gallery to ThisItem.Value, it changes the data type to image. In the article linked above, it's using First(TableName).ColumnNameInExcel ... when I did this, it thinks the data type in the data table is text. When I take a picture with my app, nothing is getting saved to the column in excel.

My table is named "MainTable", and the column I'm trying to save images to is called "ProblemIllustration[Image]".

When the user clicks a camera icon, it opens a new screen that has a camera control named "Camera" and a gallery with Items = colImages. When user clicks the camera control, the OnSelect property is:

Set(
varname,
GUID()
);
Collect(collimages,
{DisplayName: varName & ".jpg",
Id: varName & ".jpg",
Value: Camera.Photo
}
);

This captures photos taken by the Camera into the colImages gallery. But nothing is going to the Excel table.

The intent is for images captured by Camera to show in colImages, and be written to the ProblemIllustration[Image] column in MainTable.

Maybe I missed a step?

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kevinK 12 on at

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I ended up switching to a SharePoint list and used some of the built-in features (i.e. Attachments). I couldn't get the pictures to save to excel.

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