How to save pictures and videos from the wicker app

#How to save pictures and videos from the wicker app code
#How to save pictures and videos from the wicker app series

You will now see the PictureList collection with the photos you just took, stored in a field called Url. Exit the preview and choose вЂњCollectionsвЂќ from the left hand menu. To see this in action, preview the PowerApp and click the camera control a couple of times. Now when a photo is taken, it is added to an in-memory PowerApps data-source called PictureList. Assuming your Camera control is called вЂњCamera1вЂќ, select it, and set the OnSelect property to: To do this we will use the Collect function. Firstly, we will set it up so clicking on the camera control will take a photo, and save it to PowerApps storage. I realise the resulting layout will not win any design awards but just go with it. Set the text property on one to вЂњSubmitвЂќ and the other to вЂњClearвЂќ. Move it down below the camera control so it looks like the second image below.ДЇrom the Insert Menu, add two buttons below the gallery. For my demo I will use the vertical gallery. Leave it up near the topвЂ¦ДЇrom the Insert Menu, add a Gallery control. IвЂ™ll use the PowerApps desktop client rather than the web page for this task and create a blank app using the Phone Layout.ДЇrom the Insert menu, add a Camera control from the Media dropdown to add it to the screen. We will add a camera control to take photos, a picture gallery to view the photos and a button to submit the photos to SharePoint. LetвЂ™s set up a basic proof of concept PowerApp. Step 1: Customise PowerApps to store photo data in the way we need

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Create a custom PowerApps connection/datasource use the Azure function.

Create a Swagger file so that PowerApps can talk to our Azure function.

#How to save pictures and videos from the wicker app code

Write and test the PowerShell code to upload to SharePoint.Create and configure our Azure function.Customise PowerApps to store photo data in the way we need.To do this we will need to do a few things. Here is my conceptual diagram that I spent hours and hours drawingвЂ¦ In a nutshell, we will create an Azure function, using PowerShell to receive photos from PowerApps and uploads them to a SharePoint library. A Swagger file (donвЂ™t worry if this makes no sense now).An understanding of JSON and basic idea of web services.Sorry followers, its just too hard to do epic multi-part articles these days вЂ“ times have changed. So instead I offer a single summary post of my solution and leave the rest to you to figure out. But since the pace of change in the world of Office365 is so rapid, my solution may be out of date by the time I publish it.

#How to save pictures and videos from the wicker app series

Now in the old days I would have meticulously planned out a multi-part series of posts related to a topic like this, because I have to pull together quite a lot of conceptual threads into a single solution. One advantage to the method is that it handles an entire gallery of photos in a single transaction, rather than just a single photo at a time. Thanks to ideas from John Liu, IвЂ™ve come up with a method that is more flexible and less fiddly to implement, provided you are okay with a bit of PowerShell, and (hopefully) with PnP PowerShell.

I have looked at the various workarounds, such as using the OneDrive connector or a custom web API, but these for me were fiddly. I only use this method in complex scenarios I now use a Flow-based method for photos that I documented in this video. Sadly, although Microsoft have long acknowledged the need in the PowerUsers forum, a solution has not been forthcoming. It makes perfect sense, especially now that its really easy to make a PowerApp that is bound to a SharePoint list. At the time of writing, a common request for PowerApps is to be able to able to upload photos to SharePoint.