QField Tutorial 10: Photo Gallery

[@davidmason3680]

I've tried following this and the previous tutorial, but I can't actually take a picture. I followed all the configuration details and uploaded to QField, open the camera but then I can't take a picture. Do you have an idea of what step I may have done incorrectly if the photo field is there, but I can't actually take a picture?

[@carlabrunowsky2835]

Hi, Thank you for these tutorials, this has been super helpful. I found it a bit hard to follow this video, because I can hardly read the text, but Im slowly figuring it out. I have an idea tho for another tutorial: Could you make on on creating a template that I can use for every new project? So basically I need to collect the same kind of data, but I need to have a new project for every client. Can I reuse all the layers with all the configurations I have created? Then I would only have to change the offline basemap and voila :) And can I share QField projects with another account, so they can use it to collect data?

[@geoace]

Thanks for the feedback! Great idea and sorry about the video. After it was published I realized it was a problem - and youtube doesn't let me replace it with a larger version.

[@spencerbannon9629]

Thanks for the tutorial. If I had some feedback, it appears that this tutorial is project-specific. It is difficult to identify which of these steps are necessary from a general-use perspective. The tutorial would have been more effective to the end user if it presented only the steps required to produce points with multiple photos, no other features.

[@geoace]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@fandizeng6049]

Set the field length to be at least 37 (to accommodate a standard UUID

[@tombotanik]

Thanks for the tutorial! It works as described. I just have one problem with single photos or the photo gallery on iOS/iPad (latest iOS and QField): The images get turned by 90 degrees (from landscape to portrait) and all geotags are removed. I downloaded the image files to the desktop computer and the images are still turned and have no location information. Then I checked this closer with the Geosetter software and it confirmed that the images contained to geodata. It´s strange. When I take photos with the photo app on the iPad all images have location coordinates. Any idea how to fix this? cheers, Tom

[@geoace]

Hi Tom, Thanks for watching the videos. Regarding the location information, that's admittedly never been a problem for me since you can easily get a more accurate location with the external GPS and record the lat/lon within the feature service yourself as desired. The orientation can be really annoying. I usually fix it with a python script on the directory, but you can work around this. I've found that if you turn OFF the "native camera" setting within the QField app (open up project > settings > general > Use Native Camera) you get the other EXIF data, but not the GPS information still. You should at least get your orientation correct this way too (I tested and got back to portrait). You LOSE all of your native functionality though. Basically all you can do is zoom and click. There are many bugs/issues on the QField github page about this very issue, so I imagine that the Devs have it on their radar to improve.

[@eddotthebanana]

Hey hi, excellent tutorial. I wonder if there´s a way to get a photo to be named by an expression in which encompass certain concatenated fields. Thank you

[@cameronfrost3225]

I'm having this same issue. Naming expressions work when there is a single attachment per field, but I can't get naming expressions to work when setting up photo galleries like this... Would love any advice!

[@eddotthebanana]

I figured out that and expression that would name the output photo name is available in layer properties, then select qfield tab and there you can fill the output photo name

[@mauriciotoro1160]

Gracias, es muy útil el vídeo. Lo practicaré.

[@geoace]

¡Bienvenido y buena suerte!

[@OrchidHuntersAustralia]

Thank you, it worked 👍 i can find images in the way point, but not in the dcim folder on phone? How do I get the image to store on PC accordingly?

[@geoace]

You should just be able to hit the "Sync" button using the qfield plugin via qgis. They should be showing up. Make sure the DCIM directory exists in the same place that they are saving too in your project.

[@OrchidHuntersAustralia]

@geoace thank you very much I will try.

[@federicoalbrieu6666]

Hi bro! Your videos are awesome and super helpful! Thanks for that. Question. I messure water depth in the same boreholes every year. Last year was the 1st year I used Qfield for that and worked great. This year, I made a new project for 2024 messures and I want to see the past year pictures in the form for the boreholes and just take a picture in case they were modified. I dont know if I explain myself. Do you know how to show the pictures for the boreholes? Thanks in advance

[@geoace]

Sorry! I see that this was posted 5 months ago and it somehow slipped through the cracks. I hope you got through it and are well on your way. I haven't found an awesome way to simply display the existing features in QField, but by default they should be there if you click on the parent feature. Might need to do some back and forth if you're still trying to work through it... sorry again.

[@asma-artchannel7565]

Cool! Great tutorial. As I understand, you’ve created a link between the plant layer and the photo table layer (the one without geometry). I’ve got a specific question: With this layout, how can you „access“ these photos for example to create an qgis -atlas with multiple pictures for each datapoint of the plant layer? Greetings

[@geoace]

Hi there! You would do it using an expression for both single and gallery photo examples. The path is already saved as you take the photo, generally it's a relative path. You can use an expression to build in the photo directory in atlas. So in the single image use case, if your directory was "DCIM/Photos" and your image name was stored in the field "photo_field", in atlas you'd build the photo path expression to be something like 'C://Path/to/your/qgis/project' || 'DCIM/photos' || "photo_field" (note the double quotes there). In the gallery instance, you'd be filtering the gallery table based on the parent feature id, and likely taking the first photo from the returned results (which would be an array).

[@Woodland_tales]

Hi Aaron, i've set my project up as per your instructions for a line feature layer with child photo table for the gallery. It works perfect when drawing the line on the map canvas. However, It does not save the line feature when i instead use the QField 'Tracking' function and save a photo. The odd thing is the photo will save in the table but the line feature in the parent wont be saved. Have you seen this?

[@OrchidHuntersAustralia]

I've noticed that when I take a photo, it adds it to every feature in the layer, have I missed something?

[@geoace]

I think so. more than likely, they all share the same parent ID for some reason (i.e., the default value is set to the same ID on the relationship field). I'd double-check the items mentioned in minutes 2-4.

[@OrchidHuntersAustralia]

@geoace thanks again!

[@alanvega1967]

Hi and thank you for this helpful tutorial. I'd like to know if it's possible to set a maximum number of photo taken for the same entity ? And if so, would you know how to do that please ? Thank you again

[@geoace]

Hi there! Not that I know of within QGIS. You could get around it if you're using PostgreSQL and set the rule on the backend, but even in that case your collectors wouldn't get a notice/warning until they've hit submit.

[@Ocean-Jay]

Having an issue where is says "Unable to Save Changes" when hitting the check-mark. The single photo works just fine. I tried to retrace the steps in the video but don't see whats causing the issue. I did however use my own features as I'm making a bluebird box map instead of plants.

[@carlabrunowsky2835]

So I got all my forms looking like I want, the gallery option in QField is there, but when I click on taking a photo, my camera turns on and stays black. It does that for my native camera as well as the QField camera. Do you have any idea what could cause this? Also my uuid field keeps showing up in the QField form, even though it is definitely set on hidden in QGIS.

[@igipop1981]

going back and forth..now I have TWO gallery fields, and I don't know why 😅

[@geoace]

One for the lazy and one for the detail oriented? haha maybe I should have said something like "pick one when doing this in real world applications" in the intro 😬

[@igipop1981]

@@geoace maybe :-) jokes aside, tuorial is just fine, i just re-did everything by memory, small tweaks and was good to go. one photo/one gallery!

[@sidmimireynolds5117]

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