Personas on Fiori Client: upload image from phone

[Wolfgang_Mayer]

Hello guys,

we’re currently building a prototype for SAP plant maintenance using the Personas slipstream engine on the native Fiori Client on iOS.

The use case is to create a service notification in SAP – which actually already works fine incl. barcode scanning for identifying the affected equipment.

The only feature missing is to take a picture of the equipment and add it to the service notification. We’re aware of the generic object service (GOS) in the service notification which you can use to upload images and documents to a notification, however, we have no idea yet on how to integrate the attachment feature on the Fiori client.

I’ve searched the internet for any FAQs, blogs aso but didn’t find anything useful.

The idea would be to:

• Open the flavor in the Fiori client (running on iPhone or comparable Android device)
• Hit an icon in the UI
• The usual device interaction popup appears whether one wants to take a new picture or select an already existing one à the Fiori client is capable of this, we’re using it in several SAP Fiori apps
• Take picture or select one
• The Fiori client passes the binary data of the picture back to the application
• From there on, it would be easy for us.

Thanks & regards

Wolfgang

[former_member271631]

The function as Tamas describes works for us but we encounter some issues from this point onwards with iOS and slipstream attachments function

• If you take a photo it is just called image and you cannot rename it
• If you take another photo you will now have 2 files named image in the attachment UI and you can not differentiate between them (you can add the same file multiple times)
• If you wish to add multiple photos from the camera roll you can add them to the attachment UI but then have to add each one individually with the pop up closing each time (an add all would be nice)
• The attachment UI retains the list of things you have added in each session. In our case if I created a notification took some photos and attached them, Now i create a new notification the list of the photos from the previous notification will be listed in the attachment UI and you need to deleted them individually
• We are unable to display photos attached from iOS device on the iOS device. The file type/iOS integration doesn't seem to work together

Whilst it is much improved on the WebGUI attachment functionality it is currently still very clunky and not user friendly. These above points are slightly better if you use stored business doc's rather than attachment functionality.

Hopefully there will be some improvements in this area.

[tamas_hoznek]

All what you are describing should already be possible. When you click on the GOS button and create an attachment, this will offer using the camera and taking a photo, which you can attach to the notification, or even an image that you have taken earlier. Does this not work for you? I only tried it on Android and had no problem, but I'm sure the same works also on iOS devices.