Al: How to use camera features without .Net?

[MikeGlue]

We are using the device camera in our extension. Is there a solution coming that will allow us to do that, since the current solution uses a .Net library?

[StanislawStempin]

This functionality is not supported yet due to removal of .NET interop. It will be enabled in the future after we add back support for client add-ins that do not rely on .NET.

[unnur]

We are using this as well - do you know when this is planned to be supported?

[MikeGlue]

Now that javascript addins are supported, any update on the timeline for using the built-in NAV addins?

[StanislawStempin]

We are actively working on WebPageViewer and Camera. They should be available publicly in December Update.

[dennisfrostlander]

@MikeGlue @unnur
For the camera support, would it be an acceptable solution to have an intermediate generic page which would take the picture and provide the result stream/blob back to the caller?
Kind of C/AL wrapper, but using a page instead of a codeunit. The calling code could call RunModal and the page can request a picture on page open and close itself when the picture is ready.
This way it should take the same number of clicks to obtain a picture from the camera, and the remaining inconvenience would be an extra page being displayed...

[MikeGlue]

That sounds like a viable solution I think. As you said though, as long as the number of clicks doesn't increase so that it remains easy to use.

[unnur]

Sounds like a good solution to us.