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====== Displaying and Uploading Pictures from Camera and/or Photo Library ======

One approach is to define an attribute of the Picture type for one of your forms. //**Aware IM**// will automatically generate controls to upload the image from a camera or photo library. This approach will work in both browser-based mobile applications and native mobile applications. 

Another approach is to use the ''[[a_f:a:mobile_camera_snap_into|MOBILE CAMERA SNAP INTO]]'' action in some process (or ''[[a_f:a:mobile_camera_get_into|MOBILE CAMERA GET INTO]]'' action to get access to photo library). When //**Aware IM**// executes this action the user will be able to upload a photo from camera or a photo library. The image will be written into the picture attribute specified in the action. For example:

<code aim>MOBILE CAMERA SNAP INTO MyObject.MyPictureAttribute </code>

Note that these actions will only work for native mobile applications – they will not work inside the mobile browser. Please see [[docs:2500_config_apps:4400_mobile|configuring mobile apps]] and [[docs:3000_rule_language|Rule Language Guide]] for more details about these actions.