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Chris Bekas

Full-stack web developer, Notes and Domino, XPages, React, NativeScript

Dec 8, 2020

How to access the webcam and take photos with XPages

There was a time where accessing the device webcam was only possible using Flash and obscure plugins. Enter WebRTC. Let's take a look on how to capture a still photo using the webcam and save it using XPages. WebRTC WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communicati...

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Steve Johnson

IT Manager, long time Notes developer but XPages novice

Apr 27, 2021

Chris this is a great resource. Thanks for sharing. No problems creating the png file on the server, however I am trying to store the image directly in a Notes document. I haven't got there yet!

Thanks Steve, appreciate the feedback!

Once you have the image file on the server you can get hold of the file from the path and then embed it into a Rich Text field of your notes document, e.g.

var rtitem:NotesRichTextItem = doc.createRichTextItem("Body"); rtitem.embedObject(NotesEmbeddedObject.EMBED_ATTACHMENT, "", "c:\temp\webcam.png", null); doc.save();

Chris Bekas

Full-stack web developer, Notes and Domino, XPages, React, NativeScript

Apr 27, 2021