Shane nice video but on the create file , the file name and content on dynamic content are empty how can assist on that

I will tell you what, I wanted to save time to achieve this functionality, First thought: Shane video: too long.. nah!! watched whole lot of other videos in KZfaq. Try to implement in easy way, spent a whole day. And then I realized, Shane is the community expert lets go back and watch his video. 40 mins to implement. Boom!! Working now. I should have done this first. Kudos to you Shane. !! Man of the year !! No other words to say

NEW! Dec 2023 version of this video for single or multiple uploads. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mdCTd6toxNyak3k.html

Most of the Power App solutions I'm wanting to build require uploads to a SharePoint document library, so this tutorial is the missing link I've been searching for. I am ecstatic!! 🥳 Thanks Shane

Such a helpful video!! I was stuck on trying to upload a file to a REST API for so long and finally succeeded in doing so using this video! Thank you so much!

Be sure to checkout the curated content library and subscribe to download this app and formulas and a whole lot more. training.powerapps911.com Check out multi-file upload including drag and drop now available here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bbuVhd2XtdWcgnk.html

A great teacher with great content..I struggled a bit after creating the Instant flow..sharing one learning/observation to save others that time and effort..when following the video make sure the variables ( the one we are picking as "Ask in PowerApps" - do not repeat that step as it creates duplicate variable/memory and equivalent number of arguments would be asked in powerapps then resulting the flow to be failed. I had to create new one to overcome that..Cheers..

We've been using a SPO List to attach a file and then move it to a DocLib with meta data. This will reduce overhead and should increase reliability by making the upload direct (Thank you x M). General Note: If I was a hardcore Apple guy [dry-heave] and refused to do anything Microsoft, I would still watch your videos for the entertainment value alone. You, my friend, are the Gene Simmons of Power Apps!! Thank you for what you are doing!

Love to hear “After a year and a half” making it easy for us. Thank you!

Shane I love your work man, you've saved me countless hours trying to figure out all of this stuff. These videos are a life saver. Cheers mate!

This is super cool Shane! Thanks for sharing! Would really like to see how you return files into a Gallery Control from a document library... Great job!

Congrats, Shane, on cracking this nut after 1-1/2 years. This is a critical business need. Looking forward to putting it in use.

Hi Shane. I just want to let you know that this video reached a guy many miles away and helped him and his team to reach impressive objectives. I was looking for this for so long that I almost gave up. Cheers from Brazil.

Thank you, Shane! This is again a great video with impressive content.

Shane!!! second time you save my neck, again, love you man!

Hi Shane... First, I would like to thank you because your videos have been my primary source of learning, regarding PowerApps, over the past year or so... Second, I'd like to offer up my own twist on this amazing way to upload files. You actually can upload multiple files at a time. You just have to tell the attachment control to "Collect" the name and value each time a file is added, or remove the file from the collection whenever a file is removed from the attachment control. When you are ready to do the uploading, you need to use a timer... I use a duration of 10 seconds because I've noticed it takes about 4 seconds for the flow to add the attachment to the document library... It really doesn't matter how long the timer duration is, though, because you can set a flag for the arrival of the thumbnail that Flow returns to PowerApps after it finishes adding the file to your doc library.... If the file hasn't been returned at the timer end, you take no action... .If it has, you add the thumbnail to a verification collection, remove the first item from the collection you created when you added files to the attachment control, and re-run the flow call from PowerApps over and over again until CountRows of the collection is zero..... I was super excited when I figured this out.... Again, thanks for your dedication and commitment to teaching. What you are doing is extremely valuable because when a business needs to solution to a particular problem and can't wait 5 years or budget $15MM for an enterprise solutions, the PowerApps/Flow/SharePoint standard tools offer mere mortals a way of solving extremely urgent business problems....

Thanks Shane. This is the second time I have watched this. The first time I got all turned around and couldn't get it to work. Just went through it again and it works like a dream. This is exactly what I need for a file uploading app. Thank you for all your great videos.

Thank you so much for this. I have followed your entire process step by step and am getting an error with the Set(VarFileLink... part. Although my code matches your exactly, I'm getting an invalid number of arguments: received 2, expected 1. Do you have any quick thoughts on why this might be happening? Thanks again

Thank you so much Shane! Finally... I can use attachments!!!

As someone just starting out in a new role which involves a lot of PowerApps this was a fantastic help. Thanks for the great videos.

Fantastic video Shane, as always. For some reason, it took me two tries through it to get it to work. But I am proud to say that I was able to integrate it with another "append comments" video of yours. My project required that the gallery item's edit form have the ability to add text AND screenshots / images. So I consolidated this solution into the append comments and changed the code of my Save button. I added an If statement of "If(varFileLink = Blank()" then added the code for appending text if true and appending a link to the image file if false. It worked like a charm!! Thanks again for all your great content. I use your curated library a ton as well. 🙂

Good Job !, implemented in my new project and working like a champ ! thank you

Hi Shane. Love your videos brother. Love your passion. Keep sharing the love. Some viewers might have last update of PA where 'Run' needs 3 arguments, hence the lines would look like this : Set(VarLast, Last(AttachmentControl.Attachments).Name); Set(VarFileLink, UploadAttachmentCD_Award.Run(VarLast, VarBase64Only, VarBase64Only).sharepointfilelink) Let me know what you think or if you have a prettier solution? Peace

Shane, its 2021 and you still the man! (Its over a year and your stuff is still relevant!)

Another excellent video! Thank you for sharing! I started learning PowerApps just a few weeks ago but can create apps for work now, using your videos. You save me so much work. Thanks again.

You, sir, just saved the PowerApps team from my anger at the SharePoint conference in Prague in December this year ;) Why is this not a standard feature after 2 years of PowerApps? I was also looking for a solution to this last year..... Many thanks to you and the Twitter user you mentioned. This is very rare here on KZfaq that 99% of your videos really help people meet their customers' business needs. I am so grateful for your channel, it helps me so much in my daily work. :)

Shane, you're an absolute legend mate!!! Worked like a charm. The amount of people you keep in their jobs 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Shane, this was exactly what I needed and explained it perfectly. You are a Legend!

Hi Shane, You make everything in Power Apps simpler. Lots of love from India 🇮🇳 for Chewy 👍🏻

Hero of the day and yes, bless you :) (what a sneeze...) This topic is very popular on internet but you first explain in detail whats going on... Great Job and thanks.

Saved me, hours of time in fixing file upload issue using powerapps v2 connector. Thanks!

Love this! Got it working exactly the way I need. Now onto the next step, Multi-File upload implementing these principles.

Excellent video, keep up the good work for the power platform community. Wouldn't have built out our LOB app without your videos and mentoring.

Fantastic. Exactly what we needed to get us going. One issue I initially have is when adding multiple files (form file explorer, ctrl or Shift click), PNG files do not get uploaded, they need to be uploaded manually. Next step is to add the ability tag with metadata for uploads, then have a combo of power apps/Automate fill the metadata. Probably need to add an item or file update step after adding the file in the Power automate.

Ohh Shane! That's so marvelous! I had re-viewed this vid a few times but got it to work with the PDF - Function to generate a PDF File in the PDF viewer (I think you made a video about that), and passing this through the image control gave me the 7:33 reaction! Woohoo! No more complex calculations within PDF forms but simple calculations in the app! Much easier to maintain! And our business people hate filling out PDF forms! Now while patch adds data directly into Sharepoint, just for the PDF file I still need a flow. If there were a way to Patch this data without a flow into sharepoint ... there is this Forms attachment.update thingy ... I need to investigate ... Thank you so much for the many inspiring videos :)

YOUUU ARE THE BEEEST!!! HUG FROM BRAZIL!!

Thanks so much Shane. You saved my mind. Been trying to do this for a super long time. You are my goto guy from now on.

Shane my man got every tutorial for PowerApps i need.

Great video as always. Thanks for that. With the PowerApp connector V2, you can now save yourself some effort and also have the advantage of being able to upload several files in one go. I use the attachment control from a form as described by Shane, but no longer have to limit it to one file. Then I use a "ForAll" over all its attachments and pass the data of each file in turn to a flow. In the flow, I use the data type "File". This then expects a record with "name" and "contentBytes" from the PowerApp. I fill "name" with "Name" from the attachment control and "contentBytes" with the "Value" of the attachment control. Nothing has to be converted for the value, no matter whether JPG, GIF, PDF, DOCX, XLSX or anything else is passed, the flow takes everything and makes the correct file in SharePoint out of it. Because I did not succeed in using "name" from the record as the name for "Create File in SharePoint", I also pass a string with the file name to the flow, again "name" from the attachment control.

I know this is a slightly older video but it helped out a lot! Around the 25:50 mark, you mentioned having to click the attachment control multiple times sometimes, this is likely because only the "Attach file" part of that control is clickable.

Fantastic. I will for sure use this in a customer project where they have 8 different SP libraries and I can create an app that "magically" finds the correct one (based on AD properties) and uploads it (with a bunch of column values as well)

Sir Shane!, This is what I needed so long ago, I searched and searched and it was so "simple." Now, we need the PDF preview to be incorporated into the gallery to close the cycle. Really thanks!!!!

Baby I love you finally i felt like i would never be able to solve meastery of blob thingy but you are the king like,subscribe and comment

7:32 MIND=BLOWN .. You are amazing Shane! Thanks for your videos. I used this trick to upload files into a Gis Cloud storage.

I know I'm late to the party, but THANK YOU! This was exactly what I needed. Liked and Subscribed!

Love you work Shane, you're so passionate with it. A great guru.

shane is a badass he started with JV

Wow !! Thank you ! and Double "Bless you" - the 1st for the sneeze and the 2nd for this video. 😜

This is amazing. Will be definitely be using this! You never disappoint, great video.

just awesome! thank you! I tried it out not using attachments, but Add Media With Image (and into a collection) and also into 2 separate buttons... it worked perfectly!!!... I am building an offline app and need to upload several photos from inventory reviews... now i need to figure out how to give the file a name related to the location scouted and how mass upload the base64 :P... kinda feel smarter tonight thanks to you!

Shane, the Attachment control has a limit of attachments and by default it is set to 6. I believe this Attachment control must be reset, otherwise you hit the limit and your app will stop working (making that limit much higher is not feasible IMO). I am using Reset(AttachmentControl) in "Upload to Sharepoint" button OnSelect formula. This control is outside of the form where it belongs to by design, so this Reset function is the only solution that I could find. And I have some comments on those string manipulations and encoding in the Flow, but this is not for KZfaq comments.

Shane, You are the best man. You just solve my issue! Thank you

This helped me a lot! Thanks, your videos are the best as always.

Great Job, Shane!! I've been looking for this for so long. Thank you so much!

Many Thanks Shane, Learning is so much fun with your videos!

14:50 Bless You 🙂

Thank you thank you thank you. You have no idea how grateful I am for this.

That was impressive! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and for giving credit where it's due.

THANK YOU! Displaying an image in base64 helped me solve a problem that had me completely stumped.

Love you reaction when getting base64 info. Thank you for all this great videos!

This is great. Although it's kinda silly that we will always need to use an Image element to grab the binary code, but this is a great content

All I can say is, My enthusiasm was the same! Used this to upload to a file to Sharepoint that then takes the data in the file and inserts into SQL.

Really nice technical video which clear idea of power app with file upload with out of the box control. thanks Shane

Great stuff. Now the next step is how to integrate a screen to collect metadata before uploading.

Awesome work! I think you down played the finishing touches a bit as they were some fabulous tips. 👏

Hey Shane, this is great! Thank you very much for this video.

Shane, you are the man for this one!

If you can only see Createfile_FileName and Createfile_FileContent is missing from dynamic content, just select Ask in PowerApps and it will appear. Very strange but that is the solution.

This is great, thanks Shane! , the problem is when you want to get the data back it takes so much time . thanks!!!

Thanks this is great! Instead of the Attachments control I was able to get this working with the Add Picture control (so I can use iPad camera). It works when i upload a test image on desktop, but app freezes when I try to perform the same task with an photo I took with the iPad camera.

Fantastic Shane, as usual, I dare say I will be using this at some point. Next guide "How to upload attachment to SharePoint List" :p

Can you create a video that shows how to incorporate either creating a new folder to place the document in or submitting it in a dynamic folder?

i'd like to say something to past Shane: you're awesome.

Shane: “Im just gonna post links to all my videos” Me: Laughs, chokes on toast

Excellent and well explained, thank you so much for making simplifying our work !!

Dear Shane, You are the best, thank you so much from Kazakhstan)))

Absolutely fantastic - easy to follow and extremely well explained! Thank you so much Shane! :)

Man, you keep saving my day over and over again. Thank you.

You my man you are the king !!! Awesome video

Killing me with the "Gonna lose some of you here, byeeeee!" lol...... so true thou :).

Very helpful! Thanks Shane and like all the dog images in your videos

Shane thanks for the video. You are the man!

The "new experience" in PA was crap, which is probably why i have only seen it show up twice, cause they must have pulled it back. Great video btw

I instead just made a flow that created a copy of the file from the SP list and saved it to the documents folder. But i like this way too!

this video is a life saver, thanks Shane!

Great piece of work, exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for sharing.

Shane, thank you for your work ... is a cristal clear speach ... Thanks a lot !

Hi my Run is not working , if you set it at the button it says invalid number of arguments received 2 expected 6.

This is extremely helpful. I got my documents into my doc library. I now need to figure out how to get a multi selection using a list box to update a column within my doc library. I've been struggling with this all week! any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Well done. great explanation. Bravo and many thanks

This is exactly what I have been looking for!

Hi Shane, my flow returns this error: Unable to process template language expressions in action 'Create_file' inputs at line '0' and column '0': 'The template language function 'base64ToBinary' was invoked with a parameter that is not valid. The value cannot be decoded from base64 representation.'. Any suggestion on what might be happening?

There is an automatic Boolean return on the flow run that I accidentally found. Just surrounded the upload stuff with Set(varFileLink, ******) and didn't use the .sharepointfilelink . varFileLink becomes a Boolean. I then throw that into a visible on a big green check mark. Thank you so much for this vid.

You saved me so much time on this! Thanks!

Thanks for sharing this with us! Have you had any issues using this app on ios? for some reason it works perfectly on preview and android but everyone with a iphone that tries it gets this error on the create file step of the flow. "Unable to process template language expressions in action 'Create_file' inputs at line '1' and column '12587': 'The template language function 'base64ToBinary' was invoked with a parameter that is not valid. The value cannot be decoded from base64 representation.'."

Bless you Shane.

Thanks Shane! Awesome tool to add to our toolbox.

Shane - can you do a demo on how to view a document attachment (word and PDF) in the built in PDF viewer? I built a resume app, and I want users to be able to read the resume in the app rather then have the attachment download.

Shane, great video. Really helped me deliver what the client needed. You made it so easy to re-create what you did in the video. By the way you mentioned Ramerio on how he does multiple file uploads, do you have a link for that? Thanks again and keep up the great videos!

Thank you, this cleared up a lot for me!!!