# Share Action

The Share action opens the device's built-in share sheet, letting users share content from your app to any app on their device: text messages, email, social media, notes, and more.

Unlike an [**External Link**](/actions/links/share-via-external-links.md) (which opens a specific URL), the **Share** action lets the user choose where to send the content.

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### What You Can Share

You can share one piece of content at a time:

* **Text** - a name, description, message, or any text value from your database
* **Image** - a photo or image stored in your app
* **File** - a PDF or other document stored in your app
* **Number** - a price, score, or other numeric value
* **Date** - a date value from your database

To share a URL, store it as a text property in your database and select that as the source.

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### How to Set It Up

1. Select the component you want to trigger the share (e.g., a button or icon).
2. Open **Add Action**.
3. Choose **More...**, then select **Share**.
4. In the **Source** field, pick the data you want to share. This dropdown shows all available properties from your screen's data: text fields, images, files, etc.

That's it. The Source field is the only setting. When a user taps the component, the share sheet opens with that content ready to send.

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### Example Use Case

Say you're building a recipe app. Each recipe has a name, a description, and a photo.

* Add a share icon to your recipe detail screen.
* Set the Share action's source to the recipe's **description** field.
* When a user taps the icon, the share sheet opens and they can send the recipe description to a friend via text, email, AirDrop, or any other app on their device.

To share the recipe photo instead, just change the source to the **image** field. The share sheet will let the user send the image directly.

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### Notes

* The share sheet is controlled by the device's operating system, **not Adalo**. The options a user sees depend on what apps they have installed.
* You can only share one source per Share action. To let users share both text and an image, use two separate Share actions on different buttons.
* Supported image formats: PNG, JPG, and GIF. Supported file format: PDF.
* **On web, sharing uses the browser's built-in share feature. Some desktop browsers do not support this and will show an alert.**


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