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Posted on by Microsoft Employee

I'm a new Power User and have almost fully built an app. I have data from a form that is saved locally in a collection, then is sent to a SharePoint list once the app is online. My users need to take a photo, which is also stored in a local collection. Once online, the app sends the photo to Onedrive (excel), then I have a Flow that moves the picture into a document library in Sharepoint. 

 

The problem is that once in the sharepoint document library, there is no way to distinguish individual pictures through their title or associated data. I don't want to have to flip between Excel in OneDrive, the SP List, and the SP document library, and instead would prefer to have all info needed to identify each picture in SP. I have a few options that I think could work, however I haven't been able to make any of them work:

 

1. Rename the file from the automatically generated format (e.g. ec029ded68f64f99931aaaf6c7b43e2c.png) in Flow from a unique entry in the SharePoint list

2. Add the automatically generated title to the sharepoint list, thus forcing someone to copy the title from the SP list and search for it in the document library (not ideal but still ok)

3. Rename the file when it moves from Excel into the onedrive folder

4. Add data from the Excel sheet to the document library entry associated with each picture

 

Any other suggestions or ideas are welcome. Thank you!

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    v-monli-msft Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @Anonymous,

     

    If you are using the SharePoint- Create file action in the flow, then you should be able to change the picture name in this action:

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    Currently I can't find a way to change the image name saved by the camera control within PowerApps, the image name should be saved automatically.

     

    And, after connecting SharePoint library to PowerApps, I found that you cannot edit the file name with the existing image in library. Both Name and File Name with Extension fields are read-only in the edit form.

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    Regards,

    Mona

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