Lab 9

Within this lab, we are going to add two additional elements to our asset tracking app by capturing a picture of the asset and the barcode at the point of entry. The reason for using a barcode during this lab is because most products ship with at least one identifying barcode on them, making testing the solution much simpler.

Activity 1: Updating the data source

First of all, we need to update our data source to be able to receive the two new pieces of data:

1. Open the Excel spreadsheet, Assets.xlsx, which we have been using as our asset store throughout the previous labs.
2. Add a column with the title Asset Photo[image].
3. Add a column with the title Asset Barcode:

4. Save and close the spreadsheet.

Now that we have prepared our data source, let's update our app so that we can feed data into it.

Activity 2: Updating the PowerApp to capture a photo

Now, we are going to add two new data cards to the input form in the asset management app in order to capture a picture of the asset...