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Best way to work with images in PowerApps and SharePoint

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I have about 600 images that I want to display in SharePoint. I'll be showing the images in a gallery. I'm looking for guidance on the correct/most efficient way to show those images.
Should I...

1. Put them all in a library, then put them in a collection and lookup to the collection from within the app.

2. Put them all in a library and lookup directly to the SharePoint library (I think not but why not ask in this instance).

3. Put each of them into an image field for that item.

4. Any other suggestion.

Also, does the capability to write a Power Automate flow to resize all the images prior to loading them exist? If so, can you point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance for your insight.

BTW, this is the type of training/guidance I feel is often missing in Power Platform training -- answers to what is the "best" way when there are so many approaches to take.

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Hi @CindyZ ,

Option 2 is the one I use assuming you have a Delegable query. If for instance they "belong" to a record in a SharePoint list, have a numeric field in the Library (I call mine IDRef ) containing the ID of the "parent" record. You can deal with a Library of any size this way (several of mine are over 100k).

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@WarrenBelz Interesting...the one I thought it would not be! Glad I asked. I can make this a delegable query so thanks for your great insight and advice.

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