Ability to save/share/edit text, picture and canvas together for each item

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DD

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Sep 26, 2014, 5:50:43 PM9/26/14
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I am creating an app that captures information about multiple individual entities. Each entity would have multiple text boxes to fill in about the entity, along with the ability to take a picture of the entity and draw a picture of the entity via a canvas. Once the information is captured, I would like the ability to save and later view and/or edit all of the information together for the given entity in a screen similar to the input screen. The app would also have the ability to email the information, picture and the canvas.

I am able to create/email a .pdf of the textbox information, take/share the picture of the entity, and create/share a .PNG of the canvas all individually. However, I have not been able to save, share and later view and/or edit all of the information together for the given entity in a screen similar to the input screen (see attached). I have tried joining the information as a list, which works for the textbox information, but not the picture or .PNG of the canvas. Can this be done or am I stretching too much?
EntityInput.jpg

Gecko

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Sep 29, 2014, 4:12:33 PM9/29/14
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I think the answer is to save the path to the file of the picture, and to the picture of the canvas, in your list, along with the text boxes. Then reload the screen from the list. The problem would be if you want edit the canvas, as you would only be reloading an image of the canvas. not as lines drawn on the canvas. To do that you would have to record all the lines you draw as you draw them.

Taifun

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Sep 29, 2014, 6:03:52 PM9/29/14
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see this solution 

How to create a pdf file

for this to work, your images must be accessible in the internet, you could upload them to a web server, see this solution 

How to use the PostFile block in App Inventor

or to your public Google Drive folder using this solution 

 then you could email the pdf file as attachment using one of these solutions

Taifun

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