I'm using Filemaker Pro 6 with Filemaker Server 5.5 on an NT system. We have a database of books. Every book has a unique ISBN number. On our network, we store images (jpegs) for each book - the filename for the image is the books ISBN number. I would like to be able to look up an image on the network based on the ISBN number and return it into a field in the corresponding Filemaker database record. I looked at the Troi plug-in, but I couldn't get it to work the way I wanted it to work. Any suggestions? Thanks.

If you already know the file names of the images that you are looking for, and they are stored in a known location, try the InsideScan plugin for retrieving the images by reference through scripting into your container fields.

Use the plugin eror codes to handle error conditions such as attempting to reference an image that's not where you'd expect it to be, etc.

regards... Bob Minteer