Good day and best wishes for 2026. I have added an image field to the Trips table to allow users to send photos of laundry bags to be picked up. The Image Picker component in the Booking screen allows for upload “From Camera and Photo Roll” but if I select that, the user can only upload and not ta…

I have worked around the problem by adding a File Picker and Image Picker component to the screen. Image picker has only Camera option and visibility set to Role=Child; Image picker visibility is Role=Parent.

I’m not able to replicate the behaviour that you describe. That is, when I try it works as expected - users can choose to either upload or take a photo. That suggests the issue may be specific to your setup or environment. Can you provide some more information please? ie. Some screenshots of your se…

Thanks @Darren_Murphy , I will try it on my tablet too. Hectic at the moment since our schools are starting on the 14th and I’m helping the new customers onboard etc. Be back soon. Update: I have checked it on my laptop, phone and tablet and these are the results: On my laptop (MX-Linux, Firefox…

Workaround that might work: wrap both these elements inside a tabs container: Tabs container with 2 tabs: Use camera Select photo(s) Inside the first tab, choose File Picker Component Inside the second tab, choose the Image upload, but only allow for the Camera (Camera Only). I think that will…

Thanks @jb_1mprove , this turned out to be an interesting learning curve. So I added an Image Picker and a File Picker field to the Trips table and added the Tabs component to the Booking screen. It looks OK but is not working. Even I can see the action to execute when selecting a tab is missing - …

Sounds good! Feel free to reply or shoot me a message if you need help on the tabs anyway.

Hi Julian. Thank you, I will certainly look into tabs in a week or so. Our school year starts on the 14th so at the moment it’s quite hectic. Have a wonderful 2026! Herman

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JohnnyBoy January 6, 2026, 7:50pm 5

I submitted a feature request for this because I believe it’s an issue with non-mobile devices in general. The camera does not launch on laptops/desktops: https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-image-picker-to-use-desktop-camera/85181?u=johnnyboy

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