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Explore Media Upload capability via property pane of card-designer card in Adaptive Card Extension

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In this tutorial we'll see how we can explore this capability via the property pane of the card-designer card.

  • Update the card strings
  • Introduce media upload actions on the card view, primary button, and secondary button.

First, figure out the domain to the URL of your SharePoint tenant and site you want to use for testing and access the workbench.aspx page. For example: https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/devsite/_layouts/workbench.aspx.

Here, click on the '+' icon in the middle of the page, and add the card-designer card on the canvas.

Next, click the pencil icon adjacent to this card to open the property pane.

Update the card strings

Here, first set the Card size to Large.

To provide descriptive labels, change Title to Media Upload, Heading to Media Upload Demo and description to Demo Media Upload Actions.

Adding strings in the property pane of card designer card

Adding action on Card View

Under Actions, click the drop-down menu of Card action and select Select media option. By default Images is the only media type to be captured.

Set the expected file formats as png and jpg.

Set the on-click action to "Select Media" from the drop-down menu of card-view

Adding action on Primary button

Next, for the Primary Button, set the Title to Select single media and from its action drop-down menu, select Select Media.

Ensure that Allow Multiple Capture is toggled off.

Set the on-click action to "Select Media" from the drop-down menu for the primary button

Adding action on Secondary button

Change the size of the card from Medium to Large.

Ensure that Allow Multiple Capture is toggled on.

Finally, for the Secondary Button, set the Title to Select multiple media and from its action drop-down menu, select Select Media.

Set the on-click action to "Select Media" from the drop-down menu for the secondary button and enable multiple file uploading

Try the Select Media action

Now close the property pane and click Preview from the top right hand corner of the page:

  • Click on the card to open up media upload and exit
  • Clicking Select single media will pull open the same modal
  • Clicking Select multiple media will open up the same modal but will allow the user to upload several files at once

Multiple images uploaded at once

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