Export to From FMP to XML

[Ocean West]

I Have an image database with many photos I would like to via FMP export a found set to XML and have a web browser open up with 4up images so i can view them. Then hit a next button to see the next four. The reason we wish to do this is that speed is becoming an issue we need to be able to flip thru a few hundred images in a few seconds to get an broad sence of the contents of pictures. Viewing images via FMP is slow to render.

If I understand XML it only needs to create one html document? then the XSL say will display 4 images at a time.? Then the user could sort the images based upon the xml /xsl?

I created another method creating html pages but this creates hundreds of pages. That can become out of date and unmanageable.

Any ideas?

[cjaeger]

somehow you will have to tell the browser to select the right images/ go to next found set. That means you will have to use javascript or a (server-side) perl script to do the selection.

A sample of a client-side image databse can be found here:

http://www.pitt.edu/~ciddeweb/INSTRUCTIONAL-COMPUTING/JS-SAMPLES/database.html

(grab the source and corresponding javascript file http://www.pitt.edu/~ciddeweb/INSTRUCTIONAL-COMPUTING/JS-SAMPLES/records.js).

This could be done with XSL faster that with FileMaker text cals, but both methods work equally well....

[Ocean West]

Since this is for intranet and users have volume with images mounted how would I direct them to access the images from this volume.

I copied the source but the browser may have changed the tags and it isn't resulting in the same effect.

Thanks SD

[cjaeger]

didn't know you are referring to images not accessible via web server. But if you put the HTML file on your image server, javascript could use relative links ....

try a search for "javascript image gallery" on google.

You will have to adjust the code to simultaniously display 4 images using the mod 4 function, but hat should not be a problem....

[cjaeger]

btw, this has nothing to do with xml or javascript. You would have the same prob with static html.

If all of your users are using IE 6 win, you could in fact use XML and data islands in Active X to show your images , sort them etc, even without much of javascript .....

but the path problem will persist.

This is a typical application for php/mysql or perl image gallery scripts ..... - or even cumulus.

In Filemaker (Client) I would solve this by including thumbnails stored in FM db, while the main image is linked. For FM web access as well as html or php, i would go for a separate thubnails folder containing all the thumbs (most image gallery scripts do this automatically via image magick).

[Ocean West]

Things seem to be working I have modified the script similiar to yours. The elements that I have issue with is figuring out how to do 4 up. And display caption. The file paths to my server work fine it is just left to dispaly and navigation.

My next task from this is when I click on an image have it popup a new window with the High Res version. (I might add the script that allows you to zoom on this one)