PowerApps Flow Intro Upload an image to SharePoint using Flow 

Just wanted to shout out to you Shane & express my gratitude for your hard work creating these videos - some of your content is absolutely invaluable! I have just started along the Flow/PowerApps journey and it's awesome, but frustrating too! The content you put out is brilliant and VERY helpful. Keep up the good work man.

Love how you do the walk through and after that doing the practical. Much easier to learn.

Morning, Mr. Shane! I just want to give you a big thank you because your videos help me so much to create my very first Power app :D Btw, I also want to share that the code you use in 18:18 should be justified from dataUriToBinary(triggerBody()['CreatefileFileContent']) --> dataUriToBinary(triggerBody()['Createfile_FileContent']) - (underscore added), in order to work properly. It took me 2 hours to realise that. Hope it will help to whom might need :D Cheers!

Just want to say thank you Shane, not tried this yet but can’t wait to. You make things feel so much more manageable

Shane, First off let me say, your videos have helped me tremendously in figuring out to implement several functions into an app I am building for my work, which in turn is essentially a CRM replacement that is build perfectly for our needs. Now to my main comment, you mentioned in this video that you could not figure out how to upload any other files except images while using a flow. This is similar to a feature that we needed except that we do actually need to be able to upload any type of file since there can be a multitude of file types from images, to PDF files, to doc files etc., and so I was looking into the SharePoint list and Attachment Control within PowerApps and have figured out how to get it to work any file type and work for our needs. Here are the details in a brief summary of our setup. We are using a MySQL DB as the primary data source. I setup a table that would have all of the attachment details. I then created a SharePoint List with 2 fields, Title and sp_attachment_id. I then added the "Attachment" element to a new form which I linked to another form that has the MySQL Data Source. I then used Lookup formula to basically link the MySQL DB Attachment ID to the SharePoint List sp_attachment_id. I then setup the sp_attachment_id fields default property value to check if it is a new attachment, if so, then use the MySQL Attachment ID fields value and this now creates the link between the SharePoint List and the MySQL records. Now we can create a new attachment, upload our files from the desktop, save the record and it creates the new List entry with the attachments and it is linked to our unique record inside PowerApps. Now I know I could have setup a flow to pull over meta info but I just needed a way to upload files to our SharePoint list library as a means of storage while keeping all the meta within the MySQL record. If you would like I can give you more details on how I got this working.

Fantastic video Shane, fills in a lot of gaps in my knowledge and your presentation style is just the best. I'm been tinkering at the edges with Powerapps doing simple things like visitor logs and such like but these videos are egging me on to try new things.

Golf clubs are hugely handy for when you have to write expressions in Flow.

Hi Shane, i have been struggling with this Camera app until i found your video. Still struggling on saving peninput into sharepoint, but thanks to you i can now save photos from my app to Sharepoint. Thanks a lot for the content.

Hi Shane. What a fantastic video giving a clear and easy to follow explanation of a complex project. I had a great sense of satisfaction successfully reproducing what you shared. I am looking forward to finding and seeing what other topics you cover. Thanks for all your hard work. Adrian

Wowwwww Thank you soooooo much!!! you actually spent 2 days to make this cool, teaching, good video for us..... really appreciate this!!!

Shane many thanks for making this video. I have learned a lot from you. Hope you have a great day! Greetings from Bedford, UK.

Got it! Got it to upload from Camera to SharePoint and Onedrive AND got it to upload from the "Add Picture" control to SharePoint (upload existing pictures from phone/desktop). The only challenge left is to get it to upload from Add Picture Control to OneDrive as that doesn't seem to accept the same Content as SharePoint does. My idea to workaround is to copy the whole file from SharePoint to Onedrive in Flow.... I'll let you know when I get it. Thanks for the video. You video URLs often end up on my hidden settings pages haha

well done shane ... your tutorial is informative, easy to understand and fun.. nice work ! thank you very much

Thanks a million ... I followed the video to make my own app for the company with some tuning and adjusting and VOILA .. it worked perfectly :) ... can't thank you enough :)

Hi Shane. Seems like there was a change in Power Platform that has broken this demo. Any chance you could please drop an update in the description or pinned comment?

Thanks for the wonderful video Shane. Is it possible to record a video using Power Apps or Power Platform?

Really good video that was easy to follow for someone just getting started like me. I have one question. Is it possible to send the "takenpic" between screens? I want the user to select a separate camera screen if an image is required along with the form entry. After the user takes the picture, I want it to display on the same screen on the form before the picture gets uploaded to sharepoint and the form is updated with the link. I managed it by uploading the pic when it is taken and then calling the URL to the form page but it makes things a little slow

This video is excellent, thanks Shane! Please keep uploading videos about power apps!

Shaun, video great as always. I was wondering whether or not you can take a photo in your app but then upload as an attachment to a sharepoint record?

Thanks for this...I took what you had on this one and another and combined the two basically and mine takes the photo, converts it to a jpeg and then places it as an attachment on a sharepoint list item because I needed the ability to download the photos later if they need to be sent to a customer. Your videos are always helpful..thanks!

Hi, Shane! Really appreciate the video courses you are making. Good job! Please, keep on.

You can upload ANY type of file with Flow, though with the restrictive size limit of 100 Mb Pro tip: 1. Upload file using "Add Image" 2. Store "UploadImageButton.media" in an image 3. Extract Binary data from image using: Substitute(JSON(Data.Image; IncludeBinaryData); """"; "") 4. Send this Binary data to Flow 5. String-split data as it has a data type descriptor in the start: Datatype,binarydata 6. Send binarydata as file content 7. Wuuup, I made it!

Hi Shane, great video! All your videos are much appreciated. I was able to build this up, but I see that the pictures are saved with a very poor quality, no matter if the phone has a good camera. There is any way to increase the quality of the images? Thanks!

Had the pleasure of seeing your demonstrations at the sharepoint fest in Austin, from that and your youtube tutorials I've created several Apps now. What I'd like to do with this one is choose the folder path by a drop down in the app. Is there a way to do that? I have a library with several folders, I'd like my users to pick the folder name from a drop down and have the image uploaded there but I can't figure out how to get the flow to recognize the Folder path from the drop down.

Thanks Shane! Fantastic tutorial. Your videos help me a lot.

Hi Shane, great video man. I have a question. Can a powerapp be built that connects to an external scanner? (not the barcode scanner). My idea is to create an app with a scan button. And when hitting that button, it will scan the documents I have in an external scanner.

Hi Shane, really useful video. I am having some trouble when running the flow I am using a lookup field from my document library and it just doesn't like it! Do you have any work arounds for this? Everything else works fine just this little niggle! Thanks

Hi Shane, I highly appreciate your content and love the way you make building PowerApps so easy, most of my PowerApps knowledge is because of your content in fact I can say my journey began with your videos. However, I am facing an issue while creating the same app as you have shown in the video above but facing an issue/bug. the camera and gallery control are visible on my desktop app however they aren't visible when I am using the app on my mobile, could please help or suggest the issue or resolution for the same. Looking forward to your response. Many thanks in advance Regards, Vaishali

Hi Shane, Great video! I was wondering if this is now possible with "Add Picture" control since this video is from 2018?

Shane, another great video even though it is almost 2 years old still relevant. The Workflow has changed slightly and now for the Create File => File Content there is a Dynamic content Convert to binary image method called Outputs which works...the code no longer works or I should say it did not for me. But all-in-all GREAT JOB!!! I enjoy your videos and the enthusiasm. Going to Share this with my Team for our Virtual SharePoint Saturday next weekend, they should enjoy it as well. Stay Safe!

Great Video Shane! When my App is offline, can I save the picture in some type of variable so it can then upload it to sharepoint when the connection is reestablished? Thank you!

Hi Shane, thanks for the videos, I had learned a lot from you since starting on PowerApps. Is there a way to add the photo directly to a SharePoint List and to display storage photos back on PowerApps nowadays? Since this video is from 2018 and you said that to date... but have there been any upgrade on PowerApps for this?

I definitely got excited haha. Love the way you present these topics. Keep it up 👍🏻

Absolutely Fanstactic Video at start i was getting some errors while with images And Flow but on step by step as i go ahead i got all the troubleshooting and App is currently working smooth as you shown. Thanks a lot Shane.

Hey Shane! Thanks for another awesome video. Packed with useful information and tips. Happy 2020 to you :)

Love the content you put out! very helpful. I am using powerapps and flow and it seems that everytime I start a new powerapp session my .csv will be overwritten. I then created a conditional flow and it still overwrites. Have you seen this before?

Hey Shane, I am a big fan of your PowerApps videos, have learnt a great length from these. Thank you very much for all these wonderful videos, currently, I am working on a project which requires pen input along with 50+ items to be picked up from Power apps to OneDrive/SharePoint, eventually onto a Word doc or PDF, Is there any way I can capture pen input to be pushed onto a doc/pdf? appreciate your help. Thanks again

Thank you for this great video! It helped me a lot to include photos of invoices in my expense report application and save to a SPList at the same time.

Hey Shane, wonderful instructional videos, you have helped me so much! Currently I'm trying to build an app that adds entries to a list (got that working, thanks to you!), but I'd like to add an image to go with the entry. Can't seem to get it figured out. Could you explain what needs to be done? Does the list need to be prepped specially, how do I get the link set to het the image on the right list-entry, is there even a way to upload multiple images to a 'master entry'? Things like that.... Much obliged if you could just point me in the right direction. BR, Tony

Shane your videos are so valuable to us all, thank you. Microsoft so lacks support for this awesome product for small business. I own a cleaning company and been developing and using SharePoint since it came with my 2003 Small Business Server. Do you ever tour and do classes? I just went to App-in-a-day that Microsoft sponsored in SF. it blew my mind and was so enlightening. All this being said, can you post a second video on this relating to showing a SharePoint Picture Library List on a mobile device? My search has turned up videos that don't have a working option? I have a picture list that I have been using for years, with all my cleaning equipment in it, vacuums, buffers, etc., that I would love to use a lookup field for their location and which employee they are checked out too. What I have had to do, is use two lists, one called "Equipment Photos" that is a Picture Library, and a Second list called Equipment List, this list has all the metadata such as related Employee and Related asset location, model, Related Vendor, etc. So, what I have to do is link the image from the picture library to the equipment list item. For some reason, this works on the PowerApp? So then what would be ideal is if I could just get rid of the equipment list and only use the Picture Library list, create an app like you show and just take a picture of a new piece of equipment, relate all the relevant info like where the equipment is and which employee checked it out rather than having to manage two list. Hope this makes sense? Again, thanks so much for your work. I believe PowerApps is a game changer for small business!

Very helpful video. I have a question. Can you change camera orientation from landscape to portrait?

Hi Shane. Brilliant video, but can you upload photos and metadata from a 'collection' to SharePoint document library? Can you wrap your PowerApps code you had for the [Save to SharePoint] button in a 'For All' function for a collection of photos and metadata? If so how, or can you please point me to another video that explains it as well as you do? I'm trying to create a site safety checklist form where the user can take one or more photos and Comment per photo per checklist item, then upload that to a SharePoint document library. Thanks in advance... from Melbourne, Australia

Hi Shane, another wonderful video. Sorry but I couldn’t get my computer camera to turn on, what settings should I change? Works in other non power app application.

Shane, Thanks so much for this! Your videos have been amazingly helpful in learning Powerapps. I am having an issue with switching the camera value. I get everything and then try to find the "OnVisable" command for the camera and don't see it in the list. Is there something else that can be done to set the default camera to 0?

Very easy-to-follow tutorial. Is the Flow basically the same if we wanted to upload a document instead?

Fantastic video! Thanks Shane. I've learned lots from you. Question - how about when you want to upload multiple photos? Do you use a collection for that? I would appreciate if you do a video on this :)

Hello, great job on this video! Shane, it is possible to do it offline with multiple images?

Great videos; I have viewed them many times. If I save multiple pictures to a collection, is there a way to send those to SharePoint in a single Flow action? I'm trying not to use a Flow action for each picture.

Thank you for this really great video. Can I "clear" the Inputfield after Press Button Save to sharepoint?

Super helpful video! Love It! We have subfolders within our sharepoint site. Do you have an idea on how users could select the folder before naming the file?

Great video which was just what I was looking, thanks Shane. Can inform that I couldn't get the integer in my runs to store... until I switched from integer to string.

Awesome video, and I linked that you change the colors. This video has given me so many ideas.

Brilliant video. I’ve been searching for a way to do this for a while. I watched it today, stepped through it a second time following along and have spent tonight getting it working. Question though, how do specify the size of the image sent to SharePoint. I’m currently capturing an image the same size as the camera window in the app. Is there a way to make this larger without losing screen real estate?

Shane, first congratulations on your content, it's great. I would like to ask a question if possible, I did this flow and it runs but the flow status does not appear if there is an error or executed successfully, the image created does not appear and there is also no error in the Flow button within Power Apps. Do you know what could happen? And the second question is, how do I create a collection of images in a SharePoint library.

Hi Shane, Great video - by far out of all of the Power apps videos I find yours the easiest to follow. Now for my question... I have built an app using the concept, added a few other items of metadata to send & it all works fine. Could this same process be used but with a sharepoint list - after enabling attachments? could I populate the list by passing values from the app as well as uploading a photo. (I am designing an app to be used when conducting audits of workplace organisation) I therefore want to create an app with: an issue, a picture of the issue, a department to assign the issue to, the status of the issue, the due date of the issue. For me a sharepoint list would work for this - having the picture stored as an attachment..... Can this be done using the logic above?? if not any advice on direction to go? Thanks Jon

Thank you, the mind wobbles. Since you writing a file(image) to SharePoint, can we get another flow to drop those files into a directory so that we can use the images in a gallery. I am working on creating a list of attendees for each meeting “creating a rouges gallery” with head shot. Or is there an easier way, such as the Site Inspection template that uses Excel file as a data source?

Hi Shane. Big thanks for this awesome video and expertise you are sharing with the world! I created a app with your help that works pretty well :) But i stumbled upon a small problem with my workflow. I have to take several pictures (1-max 8) of the same Object. is there a possibility to deactivate the overwrite mentality over excisting pictures with the same naming? like Chewie (1) , Chewie (2) instead of just one picture in the sharepointfolder. your help would be appreciated :)

Very helpful as always! Thank you. Would this be applied the same way to capture pen input as a signature and send that signature as an image up to a Sharepoint list?

Thank you! I followed your other video to upload to Blob, but due to the costly licensing (for Premium Connectors) I had to revamp the app to save to SharePoint. Nice and easy!

Thanks for the video!! It made my day easier. But I really wonder if we can upload more than just one image in a time. I have tried forall but it ends up replacing one before and finally remaining just the last image. I think it should be file name or maybe ID but I cannot find the way to workaround!!

Great videos! and super helpful to learn how to use PowerApps. Two Questions: 1) Is it possible to upload an image from your desktop via PowerApps that will save in a SharePoint image library? 2) Is it possible to upload another image that over writes or replaces the prior saved image? Actually, I think you covered my issue around 14:57 in your video. :(

Very good video. Quick question, if I have multiple apps, how Flow would know which one to pick?

Great Stuff Shane thanks for sharing your knowledge with us appreciate it, by any chance do you know how to exactly find that template I am looking for it and is not popping out

Hi Shane, thanks for the wonderful tutorial and explanation. I have a employees database in a sharepoint list and i have added the pics to a shared library. However, I am kind of lost in connecting the created url (Filelinkfromflow) to the main employees database in the sharepoint list. Can you advise how this linking can be made

The videos are really helpful and really appreciate the time you put to make the videos. I have an issue with my app and I was wondering if you would be able to help. I have a sharepoint list that has 4 columns (ID, First Name, Surname and Signature). In power apps I have a pen input for the user to do their signature. I want to save the signature as an image to my sharepoint list. Then I want to display that image back in powerapps as an image. Thanks in advance

Hey Shane, This is a fantastic video and I had a need for this today. My only issue is getting the image to show back into a gallery from the document library. I used an image card and linked it to ThisItem.'Link to item'. I can see it in my browser and Teams, just not on my mobile device. Any quick thoughts?

Thank you Shane for this great video. It helped me a lot.

Love your videos. How do I access your curated Content Library?

Great Video Shane. I used a similar technique for saving the "Text" attribute of a camera pic to a gallery then patching them to my SP list. It's a shame the image control doesn't allow you to "Select" multiple pictures from you Camera's Photo Library to collect and send to a gallery for uploading. With that said will your flow run on a gallery with multiple images, instead of uploading them one at a time?

Hi Shane, thanks for your solution. I have the following question: Within your SP Document library, is the 'Type of animal'-column a choice-column or text-column? Thanks!

Shane, great video! Very helpful. I just ran into a scenario where on screen 1 user puts in an invoice number and there I have added a button to capture image(screen 2) . Followed the steps as mentioned by you but I want to associate picture by invoice number and save it in sharepoint. But Unless screen 1 is saved, the invoice number is not associated with the pic. How can I resolve this or what could be a better solution? Also, is there a way to autogenerate file name instead of a user to give the value?

I have found your videos so helpful shane, I have actually used two of your videos to create an app the first is the repeating data tables and now I am trying to add photos that relate to those entries, my photos are uploading but I am struggling to get them to show in a filtered gallery. So where you did expense then expense details I want a third gallery which would show the images related to the master expense. Is there a way to do this. Its nearly there but not quite!

Hi Shane, thanks for this video. I've used it exactly as you described and with a few tweaks it works. There is only one thing that I'm wondering: all pictures that are made and uploaded this way, are only 640x480 and have a poor quality although the iPhone camera is way better than that. How could this be changed to use the HD quality of the camera and upload it that way? I know there are solutions in which you can upload a picture from the camera roll, but I want to stay in the PowerApp and be able to take the picture and then upload the full HD picture to Sharepoint. Is there a way we can do this or will this be available in an update of PowerApps itself perhaps ?

Thanks for the video Shane!! , it helped me know one from the many ways to upload pictures to SP.

What a helpful video, what a helpful guy. Thanks So much Shane!!

Hi -- your videos are super helpful! thank you for making them! I used three separate videos to do my first working app. :)

Thank you very much Mr. Shane Young for the video, Can you explain to another video. How to populate images to ms. word but the images not get in data library, for example get in URL, or HTML, or picture that display in powerapps.. So, Its a new challenge and i cant wait for your the next video. 🤗

Hi Shane, thank you for the video. I just have a query, if you do not require the dropdown and wish to leave that out - an error occurs with the OnSelect for the "Save to SharePoint" - this is what I used UploadaimagefromphonetoSharePoint.Run(TextInput1.Text & ".jpg",TakenPic). Not sure if anything missing? Thank you :)

Hey Shane this is a great Video! Thanks!

Hi Shane, many thanks for this video. Do you have a video or instructions of doing this with the Add Picture control instead of the Camera control? We would like to upload (any file type) to SharePoint. We don't mind having to change from "image files" to "all files" in the select file dialog but don't want to use the attachment control method shown in your other video. (We upload a lot of large files in different parts of the app and memory profiling that method shows the JS heap getting hammered. Probably due to the global variables storing the intermediate encoding text).

great videos.How do you reset the color values back to default so the PowerApps theme can be used?

In case anyone else runs into this issue since my option didn't allow for the template to be used in Power Automate (Flow): In Step 2 of your flow (SharePoint 'Create File') when you put in the dataUriToBinary expression, start by going to the Dynamic Content and search "Ask in PowerApps". This will link the triggerBody to PowerApps. Then, replace that expression with the one Shane provided. It took me forever to figure out why when I went back into PowerApps it was only asking for the Createfile_FileName on my Run. Once I did that additional step in setting up my flow, no problems. I hope that all makes sense...

your videos really really help me out. thanks a lot.

Hi Shane, Thanks for puttin so much effort for all of us. This video is almost for years old, unfortunately a lot of the context has changed and a lot of functionality is broken. If you have the time (and feel like it) would you like to review the syntaxes for errors please? I only get red error marks and nothing is working. It's all my own fault for not knowing, but i think the context is outdated and broken

Fantastic video. Thanks. Is there a way to capture an image from a screenshot instead of the camera?

Hi! Is there a similar way to upload multiple pictures from PowerApps to SharePoint, for example from a gallery, to the same list element in SharePoint? And thanks for posting such helpful and educational videos :)

Hi Shane Thank you for your video. I could understand everything well. I saved the camera images to a folder in the document library. The links to the pictures could be saved with the patch function in a sharepoint list in the right place. My only Problem is: The pictures are only visible with the browser from the PC and not with the mobile phone. It is probably a problem of authentication Now I'm trying to save the images directly into the Sharepoint list (via Flow) without success. Thank you for help

Thanks for this very helpful video! After uploading the image to a document library or picture library, I needed to update another picture column in the item using the camera control. Can you please give some ideas for this?

Hi, Adding documents can get created with content for txt files, not for other extensions of files, like docs, XLS kind of files uploading/Creating in the document library but not opening from sharepoint online library

Hi Shane, you are so helpful with these great videos. I went through the process exactly as you showed, but the jpg file which was successfully saved in sharepoint seems having format problem. I can't view the pic either on the phone or PC. The pic size is less than 1KB. I googled and someone asked similar question and you suggested it could be something wrong with the file content in the flow. I did input the correct one as dataUriToBinary(triggerBody()['CreatefileFileContent']). Can you please help? Your fan from China.

Hi Shane Great video..... I have a question can we add image with text (i.e. message) in yammer directly through power apps by using flow? can you please help me with that....i have tried but i think so we can post message but not image....need your help to do so.....

OMG!! I was pulling my hair out.. btw I have no hair to pull on lol. Thanks for this Shane

Shane . is it possible to have the picture uploaded to a share point list in the same form. take the Employee Details you use in your example , on the edit form is it possible to add the camera function here so it can take / update the employees picture. ps i love the videos keep up the work

Thanks for the detailed video. How can I add a photo when I'm already updating a SharePoint list and already have the column in in the list? I want the photo in this list as it is relevant to data in this line.

Dear Shane, thanks for your great videos. I am learning a lot!! My question is how I should change the flow and Powerapps if I want to update the “Title” field in SharePoint? I mean to update two fields the “Title” and the “TypeOfAnimal”. Thanks a lot!

Hi Shane, thanks for your wisdom from spain. I m running the Flow correctly but my cuestión is How i do with a peninput image?.

Hi Shane, thanks for your Videos. 2 weeks ago i started with powerapps and each day there is a new question but your videos helps a lot. Today i would need your help at this problem: LMTVideoFlow_1.Run(TextInput203.Text & ".jpg", TakePic; TextInput202.Selected.Value;TextInput201.Selected.Value; Dropdown201.Selected.Value) PowerApps has a problem with the comma after ".jpg". My system is in German - i hope this will not be the problem. Any ideas?

Hi Shane! Thank you so much for your videos! Is there a method to open an image from the gallery just to preview and zoom it before sending it to SharePoint? I am using the Add Picture Controll to store the taken pictures to a gallery. Then I can send the entire image collection via flow to SharePoint. Before making this step, I would like the user to be able to click an image in the gallery and open it in a browser or maybe in a PDFViewer to see more details/zoom the picture. Do you know how can I access the PowerApps local memory casche or if I can save localy to the mobile the desired images to open them first before I push and pull them back to SharePoint? I have also tried the slider control to zoom the image, but it is not enough. If I could open it directlly in a browser or as PDF, I could zoom closer/better. Thank you in advance. Best regards.

Hi Shane! Thanks for the video! I'm having a really strange issue. I've followed your video step by step (Baby steps), and my flow is executing correctly, even populating the rows in my sharepoint list! However, when I go over to sharepoint and look at the records, there isn't any images. Just a tiny little black box with a white outline. What could this be? I've downloaded the attachments, even my pc says they're jpeg under properties. Yet the file type is unrecognised? Pulling my hair out over here haha!! Thanks again! I'm so close to completing my project :)

Thank you for the video! It was my first dabble in powerapps and it was made easy by your instructions.