File Attachments in Power Apps - The best way to do them

In this video, Chino shows you how to upload files directly to a SharePoint Document Library using the new Power Apps V2 trigger. This method is the simplest way of doing this, and the files end up in a document library and not attached to a SharePoint list or some other blob storage which is ideal!

[elonli]

Thank you! Very good solution, simple and elegant.

[bristix]

Holy heck I can’t upvote this enough, I was running around watching complex videos on this all day and still kept having issues all while making my flow complex, adding more controls to my powerapp and hurting my brain. This is so much simpler than every other method I’ve seen and it makes perfect sense, thank you so much!!!

[javakwens]

Chino has done something that most of the Channels couldn't Simply the best!!! Simple does it

[HrRonaszeki]

Awesome solution for a problem I struggle to solve since a weak! Thank you Chino!

[toddschneider]

Great video Chino! Would love to see the follow-up video on creating links based on the file ParentID or a video on how to send an email with the files based on the ParentID in powerautomate.

[richardclowes]

Good job. I had been doing it the "old" way with the JSON entries, etc... This is much simpler, thanks for spotting this method with the v2 trigger. Cheers

[tonya]

Great video - exactly what I have been trying to do for a couple of days. Perfect solution.

[billyprater]

Excellent, you provided a solution to something I was trying to figure out for a couple days without using the power automate button.

[sharepoint]

one of the easiest way to upload multiplt file from powerapps Thanks a lot

[ivanperre]

Thanks for the video. Using it I finally worked out how to upload an attachment and send it in an email.

[skwbvcr]

Works perfectly!!! My follow up question would be how would you add attachments to an existing project and link them together? Say a week later you want completed action pics... Thanks.

[radiosonicfan]

Hi Chino, Thanks for sharing the flow. I was able to use it as an outline. I had two dropdowns (Fields 1 and 2) in my app I was trying to use as meta-data. Was able to simplify the button formula: No need for me to create a variable. This might help some other users.
ForAll(AttachmentsDataCardValue#.Attachments,
FlowName.Run(
Field1.SelectedText.Value,
Field2.SelectedText.Value,
{file: { contentBytes: Value, name: Name }} ))

[Paul___L]

Honestly I've been fighting attachments in an app for a week... I hadn't spotted v2!

I have a need to save files to multiple list items but didn't want to duplicate the data to each record... This will save a lot of automate work!

Thanks!

[hoges]

Hey Chino, this works great. I was playing around with this and made a slight change and filtered my gallery using a unique text field instead and oops, delegation error. I thought filtering a text column in a document folder would be delegable like a SP list but apparently not. Thankfully going back to the numerical ID works fine.

[olivergigi]

I'm relatively new to Power App development and this worked like a charm on my first app. THANK YOU A bunch and looking forward to learning more from you. :)

[yuniko]

Hi Chino. Thank you so much for doing this. It was just what I was looking for.
Please do the follow up video.

[MDTPBI]

Awesome video. It may take me another 2 or 3 views to fully implement, but great work!

[edtt]

I have been searching for videos like this for a while now and finally you came up with this solution which is absolutely clear to do, Thanks for that I started following you because the way your videos are structured and very easy to understand. I have a question though .. I have a screen with a gallery with a filter on the name of a person, next another gallery with a collection of the data from the people chosen in the previous gallery, and finally and attachment control where all the items should have the same attachment for every single record selected, is it possible to save this attachment in the sharepoint for of each record, I know it's going to be the same attachement for all but that's why I've been struggling with for a little while and I cannot find a solution? I'd really appreciate your support. Thanks in advance!

[mccalleywk]

Chino, Yes! A follow up video would be great. I will give it a go but would love to see your solution. Currently I am thinking cascading galleries.

[Joao-zemj]

Pleeease Chino do us the video! ehehe I think i can do that, but your solutions are always very nice! Nice video anyway