image picker vs image component

I don’t understand how to set up the image picker.

If I set up the image component, it works fine - I select a library image file and it saves it and it’s displayed.

But with image picker, there’s no way to bind it to anything because there are no data or button or field properties when you click on it. It just sits there.

I want to use the picker rather than the image because picker (supposedly) allows you to select camera/gallery, which is what I want for my native app; image component only allows selection from library.

There is inadequate documentation on image picker and how to use it for this purpose. Can someone help?

Hi @obrienpaule,

Image Picker is used to upload images.
So the flow is:

  • user clicks on image picker
  • selects an image (or takes a photo)
  • image appears in the picker
    Then: to save an image, you need to add a button / icon / etc., which will create / update a record which has an image property. And there you can set the value of this property to the value taken from Image Picker.

Best,
Victor.

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@obrienpaule, what Victor mentioned! Image picker component is to upload images while the image component is for display images either from the dB or an uploaded one.

Also, there’s a component from NoCode Monkey called ‘Image Picker Pro’ (With the preview only mode) which seems like suitable for you. (Good for logged-in user profile editing page!)

Welcome to the community too! :tada:

Thank you and have a great day!

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