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Email PDF of screen without (and with) a Flow
The need to send a screenshot (it could be a form, invoice or anything else) as an email attachment straight from Power Apps is highly useful.The process actually is very simple using the PDF() function. Firstly, a temporary variable needs to be created with the file content and that used to form the email attachment. This one is to the user, but could be to any address. Note also you can send the same content to a Flow, but need to convert it to Base64 then do the normal base64ToBinary in the Flow
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Attaching Camera photos without either a Flow or JSON
In the below example, the “Photos” control is a normal (but re-purposed) Attachment Control on a form. The Attachment Control on the right is in another form displaying the same record to demonstrate that this works. The photo names are simply the time they are taken – you could use whatever you want here. So what is happening? Firstly, when the “Camera” icon is pressed, it does this OnSelect You also need to set your Camera StreamRate – 100 (one tenth of a second) seems to work well. And then the “Save” icon OnSelect You can probably delete the Refresh in most cases and would also clear the collection at Screen OnVisible. The Update of the Data Card (generally…
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PowerApps SharePoint Images – Storing and viewing
Content In this blog, I have tried to put together the various options for storing and viewing images in Power Apps, using SharePoint as a data source. How you will do it in your app will depend on your business needs and the way you want your users to interact with these images. Back to top Power Apps V2 Trigger The introduction of the Power Apps V2 Flow trigger has simplified the handling of images of all types in both Power Apps and Power Automate. The format to send the content and file name is Examples Add Picture Control Camera Control Attachment Control Pen Input The Flow is much simplified…