External Links to Images in Base Reports? [closed]
I have worked out the matter of putting links into Forms so that photos can be referenced from OUTSIDE the database using a text field in a table. However, I am not finding the same capability in the Reports module. The only suggestions I've found so far are to embed the images in a table and then use that to put images into the Report. This seems to defeat the purpose since (in my experience anyway) the database gets unstable with a bunch of photos. There would be about 160 jpg photos in this database. So I'm interested in determining if the external links can be made to work with Reports. If not, then I will probably have to find a totally different tool for this database. The database is for an organization that my wife is part of and she volunteered me (!) to do this database for them. Nice, huh?? :)
Thank you very much! Any suggestions are very much appreciated.
Bob Harris
Some questions: 1. Perhaps you might explain the exact steps you have tried using linked images in the RB module. 2. Do you get (Java) errors when running the report? 3. What computer platform are you using? 4. Do your reports run with images from other sources (such as single fixed images or images stored in your database)?
NOTES: The RB's tools and interface is a bit different from those available in FORMS. There seems to a bug using image controls in reports affecting Mac OSX - see HERE. Not sure if it affects other platforms.
The bug mentioned above for Mac OSX no longer applies in 4.2.x or 4.3.x