Show a container when clicking icon and add attachments inside from SP list row

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Posted on by Charlie Martharper

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The idea is to open a container with requirements and instructions. So when click that button, it opens a container but the question now is, how I can difference the instructions from requierments if I add them both in the same row. I would want it to be shown like separate, I show you the picture:

In documentació de preparació I have the icon that opens the container (at the moment it's shown all the time), so the thing is to have the file names of the "Recomanacions" and "Instruccions" below each. The X icon is to close the container. It could be great that it has a background color so it doesn't mix both container information.

The other thing is, that documentació de preparació and the icon, only has to be show if one of the columns in the SP lists is YES (or true). In case that there are no attachments, it doesn't have to be shown. If the left text label is no, the icon and text label documentacio de preparació should be hidden.

How can I separate instructions from requierments and make that part visible and hidden?

Thanks a lot!!

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Hi @Charlie Martharper,

Firstly instead of using a Horizontal or Vertical Container, use a plain Container (the last option) and you can put your control wherever you want. I do not know if you have a Form in there or individual controls, but you can set the Visible of the control you want hidden if there are no attachments (assuming you have selected whatever you have from a Gallery), set the Visible to
CountRows( LookUp( SPListName, ID = Gallery.Selected.ID ).Attachments ) > 0

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Hi @WarrenBelz!

Ok, that make the container appears when the row has attachments, but now, how do I introduce that attachment into the container?

In the case that I have 2 differents type of files, can I divide them (like instructions or requierements)? Is there a way to do it?

When click on the X, it doesn't close the container: (container1 is the name of that container)

UpdateContext({varShowContainer1: false})

This is what I have OnSelect

Thanks for your help!! That worked and make it visible or hidden if it has or not attachments.

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Hi @Charlie Martharper,

I am still guessing a bit here on what exactly you have there, but if you want to display a working attachment control inside that pop-up, put an Edit Form inside the container with the DataSource of your SP List, the Item
LookUp( SPListName, ID = Gallery.Selected.ID )

and add the Attachment field only to the Form. If you only want to view or download the attachments, leave it in View Mode. If you want to add/delete attchments, put it in Edit Mode and submit the Form.

On the container visibility, you really need an icon in the first continer with the Visible as per my last post, the Visible on the pop-up
varShowContainer1
and the OnSelect
UpdateContext({varShowContainer1: true})

then the X icon on the pop-up OnSelect
UpdateContext({varShowContainer1: false})

Regarding your question on different file types (two attachment controls), technically possible in View Mode but complex and problematic if you want to add/delete any.

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Perfect @WarrenBelz!

It works correctly as I wanted.

I guess it gets all the attachments and I can't divide them into File types, because it gets just the attachments.

I have 1 more question, if the part "es requereix preparació" is false, the "Documentació de preparació" and the icon shouldn't be visible:

How can I make it? So only show that if there are attachments in the item in the list. There is a column type yes/no. It gets the info from there.

Thanks for your time

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@WarrenBelz

Is it possible to open the files (attachments) in the browser? Is this a Sharepoint issue?

Right now it downloads and it opens as the typedoc it is.

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Hi @Charlie Martharper,

If you go back to my last post (I probably was a bit unclear), I noted that the Visible of that icon if you only wanted to show it if there were attachments present should be
CountRows( LookUp( SPListName, ID = Gallery.Selected.ID ).Attachments ) > 0

or if (as you have noted) the icon's value is either true or false, it is even easier - the Visible can be
Self.Value

For your last question, I have a blog outlining the process for this. You need a separate gallery with the Items

LookUp( SPListName, ID = Gallery.Selected.ID ).Attachments

and then a Text Label in the Gallery with
ThisItem.DisplayName

and OnSelect of the Gallery
Launch(ThisItem.AbsoluteUri)

As I noted, if you only want to view the attachments, you can have separate filtered galleries (as above) based on file extension instead of attachment controls.

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