Bradlash

raybaudi, that's a valid point. However that solution doesn't sit very well with me. The idea of all that unnecessary repetition (the part of the layout I want to build procedurally only accounts for about 1/4 - 2/5 of the layout) makes me uncomfortable. What happens if I need to make a change to the layout? I'd have to propagate that to another 4 manually. StuartT, just had a quick look at the visibility resource, looks like it could be just what I'm looking for!! Thanks guys.

First I'll lay out the context of what I'm trying to do (although I've approached this problem several times before on other projects only to abandon it when it became clear I wasn't getting anywhere). I am tracking meter readings and consumable levels on about a dozen or so printers, approx. 5 different models. Periodically I'll do a full audit on the status of the consumables in the printer and it's meter readings and what we have in reserve stock. What I'd like to do is define the consumable set (different across each model) and then build the layout automatically based on that. eg If printer = model a then display only fields relevent to that model ready for input. Is this even possible? Thanks in advance for any advice...

That's great, I'll experiment with that. This is the first project I've undertaken with 8.5 and I see there's a web viewer field that may also do exactly what I need if I populate it with the image URL. Thanks.

Hi, I'm hoping someone can help. I'm building an image library and I need to be able to check (ie set a field to true or false) if an image exists on a remote server over the internet. eg http://www.site.com/folder/subfolder/image.gif The best solution I've come up with so far is call a shell script that will download the image locally, check if it exists in a specific local location and return yes or no, then delete the local copy. Is there potentially a one step, cleaner solution? This is eventually going to be part of a loop trawling through thousands of images, so the cleaner/faster, the better. I'm using 8.5 Pro on OS X 10.4.7.