Adding photos from PowerApp as attachments to SharePoint list item

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Hi team!

I have a vehicle inspection app which users use to inspect the condition of a vehicle before taking it out. They answer a bunch of tick and flick style questions, at which point all the answers are sent to a SharePoint list and created as a new row in that list. Simple stuff.

I want to be able to add a camera control to the app now which will capture photos and add them as attachments to that sharepoint list item when it gets created. I've found some awesome tutorials on how to add the camera control, use flow to convert the image and upload to SharePoint as a stand alone file, however I need to find out how to tweak this slightly so that:

1) the photo is attached to the SharePoint list item which is created (not sitting as a standalone file in a SharePoint folder), and

2) how to manage saving/attaching multiple photos

Any advice is much appreciated!

Cheers.

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WarrenBelz 156,528 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @Marty_Dub ,

I have a blog regarding attaching camera photos which may be what you are after.

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Hi @WarrenBelz

Thank you for the reply - there seems to be a few different ways to get photo attachments from the PowerApp into a SharePoint list.

The area I am struggling to understand is how I can relate those attachments to a SharePoint list item on submission to SharePoint.
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Hi @Marty_Dub ,

I don't quite understand your question - if you have a form in edit mode with an attachment control and submit the form the attachments will be added to that record.
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Hi @WarrenBelz
I apologise in advance as I am relatively new to PowerApps, so I may be using the wrong expressions.

My app doesn't have a form perse, it's just a combination of checkboxes, dropdowns and free text fields. At the end of the screen, they select a button which then patches the value of those elements to columns within a SharePoint list.
The idea is to be able to also capture an image as part of that inspection (ideally > 1), and have them added as an attachment to the SharePoint list item when it is created.
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Hi @Marty_Dub ,

As I mentioned, the easiest way of attaching a file is with an Attachment control which generally lives on a form If you are new to Power Apps, I would be reluctant to take you down the journey of possible (quite complex) alternatives when the standard way is so simple.

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Hi @Marty_Dub ,

Just checking if you got the result you were looking for on this thread. Happy to help further if not.

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