Action to pop up IMAGE file

[ChristianLi]

Hello

Is there a way to to pop up an image through action trigger.

Use case: I have a list of Materials. The input are PHOTO (of the hand written list) and the ENUMLIST on Appsheet. However on the Detail view i would like to only show the ENUMLIST; the PHOTO the other hand can only be viewn through an action trigger (displayed overlay) and will pop up (similar to clicking the photo IF it was on the detail view).

[Suvrutt_Gurjar]

If you could elaborate more on your requirement, the community could suggest better.

[ChristianLi]

So this are the entities on my appsheet.

INPUT for FORM view: PHOTO and ENUMLIST (other then the ID)

DETAIL view (only show): ENUMLIST

What i need. Is an Action i can click to bring up the photo (similar to pop up when clicking the photo when it is shown on the Detail view)

Reason for this is that Enumlist is the only important thing i want to see at a glance. the photo on the other hand is only there for verification(if i want to double check if enumlist and photo are interpreted correctly). Also its also cleaner for the UX to hide the photo.

I hope i explained it better, thanks

[Suvrutt_Gurjar]

Thank you.  We still need more details. Anyway, please explore the below.

The detail views cannot show photos as a list in a single field. This means if the enumlist has options -Mountain, Ocean and River and the user select all the three options, then three photos, one each for those selections cannot be shown as a list in one field in detail view.

1) If you wish to show just one photo at a time in detail view, you could use Show_if on the detail view based on the enum ( not enumlist) selection.

2) If you wish to show multiple photos, you could use a gallery view as an inline view for those photos but it will be a bit extended implementation as you will need a child table for the photos.

[ChristianLi · Accepted solution]

Thanks everyone, I got the solution from onther thread.

I created a Slice of the wherein the Detail View is only the PHOTO.

I then made an action APP: go to another view going to LINKTOVIEW() to that Slice Detail

Got it from here:

https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/AppSheet-Q-A/Image-click-to-full-size/m-p/287223

[JoeMcFadden]

Hi @ChristianLi - I had same issue, so thanks for this thread. In my case those I needed to use a LINKTOROW() in the action with an expression for that row like this:

LINKTOROW([_THISROW].[Key Field], 'Name of Detail View with only the PHOTO')

I couldn't get it to work just with LINKTOVIEW() - it would just show the image detail of the first record in the table, not the specific row. I think this may be because my view is a Card, not a form? Anyway, adding this comment to your thread just in case it is helpful to others with a similar issue. Thanks!