You can use the Upload image action to send a locally obtained image to the cloud, which then gives you the URL of that image as a result.
Upload Image
Uploads a local image from a datafield to the cloud and retrieves its URL, and both the status of the upload as well as the resulting URL can be written to other datafields.
| Settings | Source. Select a value from an image datafield to be uploaded. |
| Results | Status. You can select a text datafield where the Upload Image action will write its current status; this is helpful to for example provide a loading state while the image uploads; the possible values are: uploading, done, failed. Result. Select a text datafield where the resulting URL of the image in the cloud will be written to. |
What Is A Local Image
A local image is an image that only exists for now on the client’s device, so it does not yet have a public URL in the cloud.
Here’s the list of components and actions on Dot.vu that can create local images:
- The Camera component
- The Drawing component
- The Snapshot action