# Camera input missing data

**URL:** <https://forum.novacura.com/t/camera-input-missing-data/1077>\
**Category:** Flow Classic\
**Tags:** studio-or-server\
**Created:** [December 1, 2025, 11:34am UTC](https://forum.novacura.com/t/camera-input-missing-data/1077 "2025-12-01T11:34:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Szymon137](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7C9FD7/32.png) [@Szymon137](https://forum.novacura.com/u/Szymon137)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 11:34am UTC](https://forum.novacura.com/t/camera-input-missing-data/1077/1 "2025-12-01T11:34:53Z")

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Hi, I have a problem with Novacura.  
I have Camera input where user takes a photo

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/novacuratalk/original/1X/ab260994b5572b43e65366a442312f001ebacc58.png)

But when I want to use this photo data in Novacura variables it shows, that is empty. Only filename is available. Even when I check photo data variable type, It shows NULL. It looks like order\_photo data is missing

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/novacuratalk/original/1X/050f0866d60aef4b4778250140f7ac1fb1defaf4.png)

Do you know how to get this photo data?  
Then I would like to encode it to base64 and save in my local sql database.

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**Author:** ![zobeno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7C9FD7/32.png) [@zobeno](https://forum.novacura.com/u/zobeno)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 3:12pm UTC](https://forum.novacura.com/t/camera-input-missing-data/1077/2 "2025-12-01T15:12:40Z")

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Hi,

This is an issue in the designer only, it doesn’t show the file data.

But if you commit the app and try to run it on a mobile client, it will work.

See pictures of my simple example:

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/novacuratalk/original/1X/7c2d61cf74a502e145efe7c8997c584853d2fda1.png)

 ![Media (5)](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/novacuratalk/original/1X/c8334cf4fa544fcbd5c91ab2c8b9ee39ff771205.jpeg)

 ![Media (6)](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/novacuratalk/original/1X/10ffbbf37ddd141768527da22cca3cadc941f303.jpeg)

Best,  
Zoltan

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**Author:** ![OlaCarlander](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.novacura.com/olacarlander/32/205_2.png) [@OlaCarlander](https://forum.novacura.com/u/OlaCarlander)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.novacura.com/t/camera-input-missing-data/1077/3 "2025-12-01T15:28:25Z")

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What Zoltan says. And, optionally, you can also convert it while storing it in the database (Insert into table (column) select convert(varbinary(max),value1.data)

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**Author:** ![Szymon137](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7C9FD7/32.png) [@Szymon137](https://forum.novacura.com/u/Szymon137)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 7:20am UTC](https://forum.novacura.com/t/camera-input-missing-data/1077/4 "2025-12-02T07:20:28Z")

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@zobeno @OlaCarlander So there is no way to see this image.data base64 in Novacura test?

I tried to save it in the MSSQL database, but {Base64Encode(order\_photo.data)} still shows as 0x in SQL table.

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**Author:** ![OlaCarlander](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.novacura.com/olacarlander/32/205_2.png) [@OlaCarlander](https://forum.novacura.com/u/OlaCarlander)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.novacura.com/t/camera-input-missing-data/1077/5 "2025-12-02T15:40:07Z")

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If you do it Zoltans way you can display it in the file gallery.

If you want only to save it to an MS SQL database, you can convert it to binary by using convert,varbinary(max) - that is an MS SQL command to convert it to binary.