Using fmp-image in portal

[dwdusharme]

I can successfully view images on web page using [fmp-image], but only if image is stored in the db I am accessing. If the image is in a related db and viewed through a portal, it will not display on the web page. Other text/number fields in the portal do display.

Thus:

[fmp-image:mydb::image field] does not display

[fmp-field:mydb::text field] does display

[fmp-image:local image] also works

Is this a restriction within FM that you cannot access images through portals?

Later that day:

Nevermind. Problem solved. Looks like you CAN access image through a portal. What I was trying to do was to set a local field with the image from a related record and then access the local field through the fmp-img tag. That doesn't work via CDML. However, the way around it was:

<img src="FMPro?-DB=related-db.fp5&key=[FMP-Field:local_field,url]&-Img" border="0">

Essentially, I grab the image key from "local_field" which contains the image from the related record. The CDML then just accesses the related database directly with the image key and bingo.

[Garry Claridge]

Well done Thanks for the information.

Garry