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trying to play a video from a sharepoint site

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I have created an app that has buttons on the front page and when you click on a button it is supposed to navigate through folder paths in a sharepoint site in order to play how to videos within those folders.

-I have buttons on (screen 1) example equation #1.

-I also have a gallery created, example equation #2.

-When the gallery filters, there is a video icon2 next to each of the video titles. When you click the video icon, I want to play the video in the video1 container. Icon2 example equation #3

-and I have a video1 container created, example equation #4

The buttons are navigating correctly. The gallery is filtering correctly. But when I click on the video icon2, it will not play the video in the video1 container.

Reference the example equations below and please advise as to what I am doing wrong.

#1 - Set(varselect,"Video Library/Published Videos/Toyota Systems/Maximo/");Navigate('PublishedVideos'); Set(varTag,"Maximo");

#2 - If( !IsBlank(varselect), Sort( Filter( 'Video Library', IsFolder = false && StartsWith('Folder path', varselect) ), Name, SortOrder.Ascending ), Filter( 'Video Library', IsFolder = true ) )

#3 - Set(varSelectedVideo, galVideos.Selected.'Folder path')

#4 - If(!IsBlank(varSelectedVideo), varSelectedVideo, "" )

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Michael E. Gernaey 53,335 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi @DR-18061702-0

Before we go to far, I would suggest the following.

Add a large label to your screen. Feel free to make it word wrap for sure.

Then place the exact combination of variables you are using to get the full video path.

I do not believe the path gets your the video name at least not what you are grabbing, unless you are specifically putting it there and saving it as a URL, which I actually do not recommend, because urls can be so much longer now, I use a multi-line to save URLS (unless I am positive of the size).

If you grab the URL out of the List, does it work right away? Or does some other column have the File Name and you are just forgetting to append /name to it link in the app?

Let's quickly validate that its correct. You can easily grab it from the Label and then just pop it in your browser. This will tell us what part of the URL is wrong.

Also, permissions wise, are these video/image/file Columns or a Library of Recordings?

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DR-18061702-0 6 on at

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this is a library of recordings found in a folder in the sharepoint site.

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DR-18061702-0 6 on at

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Also, since I am just learning power apps, is there a good power apps, instructor-led course that I can take through Microsoft to help me think along the lines of writing correct code?

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Vaish123 136 on at

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Set(varSelectedVideo, galVideos.Selected.'Link to item') will play the video in the video tool inside PowerApps.

When clicks on a button to redirect to sharepoint and play., then write code onSelect of button:

Launch("https://xx.sharepoint.com/sites/dev/" & varSelectedVideo)

Set(varSelectedVideo, Gallery1.Selected.'Full Path'); will give the path from library folder.

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DR-18061702-0 6 on at

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ok. I am still confused a bit. when I tried replacing with your equations, everything broke. I am attaching a screenshot of my treeview. please reference with your equation suggestions for me to understand more clearly.

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