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Hi,

I have a form which have some text input fields, Add Picture Control and Barcode Scanner Control

I want to Save the Text fields, Selected PDF, Excel file from picture control an scanned barcode to a document library list at the same time. Add picture control needs a button flow to upload a file to the document library.

My Code: on SUBMIT BUTTON

UploadFileToLibrary.Run(UploadFileButton.Media,UploadFileButton.FileName)


Patch(
 'Vaccine Tracking List',
 Defaults('Vaccine Tracking List'),
 {
 
 EmpEmail: EmpEmailInput.Text,
 'Date of Certification': DataCardValue5.SelectedDate,
 VaccineType: DataCardValue6.Selected,
 CertificateNumber: DataCardValue7.Text,
 File: ???
 }
 );
 
Navigate(View,None);
ResetForm(Form1)

I want to include that in my patch command, I am confused any guide?

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Building Power Apps

@MH3

Why are you Patching an edit form??

You should be using the SubmitForm action to update what you need.

However, with either method your challenge is that you need to create the record first by adding a file...then from that you can alter the item properties.

Typically this is done by passing not only the file, but also the metadata associated with the record to the flow and then the flow will create the library record and then assign the metadata to it.

If you decide not to send the metadata to flow, then you have to do a little switch around on the form to get it to work.

In this scenario the concept is working with creating a new file in the doc library (as opposed to viewing and editing).

Set the Item property of the Form to : Colaesce(lclNewRec, Defaults(yourDocLibrary))

In your Submit button OnSelect action:

With({flowResultID: UploadFileToLibrary.Run(UploadFileButton.Media,UploadFileButton.FileName).recordID},

 UpdateContext({lclNewRec: Patch(LookUp(yourDocLibrary, ID=flowResultID), yourForm.Updates})
);

SubmitForm(yourForm)

You will need to change your flow to return the ID of the record that was created when you create the file in the library to a result called recordID

What the above does is then patches the result from the flow with the values that have already been entered on the form. This will keep them all there on the form rather than blanking them out.

The final bit is just to do a normal submitform on the form.

This method works well for creating new library files and having a form for the metadata.

I hope this is helpful for you.