Displaying Images with CDML from related databases

[gaz]

I have a custom website that uses a FP5 database (we'll call MAIN-DB ) and displays records from that database using CDML. It also displays a field called field1 from a related database (EXTERNAL-DB). For the purposes of this example, the relationship we'll called LINK) so I use [FMP-FIELD: LINK::field1] . This works fine, and the related text field is displayed on the web page.

field1 happens to hold the name of a person and pic1 is a container field, holding a picture of that person in the same related database EXTERNAL-DB.

How can I pull pic1 through to appear on my website via MAIN-DB, in the same way that field1 does ?

I've tried [FMP-IMAGE: LINK::pic1] but that didn't work. And I tried a calculation field in the MAIN-DB database to get the value from the related field. Although this worked on the desktop Database, it didn't display via CDML.

My only way around is; to run a script that sets a duplicate container field in MAIN-DB from EXTERNAL-DB, but It's not a very neat solution and feel there must be a better way of linking a website directly to a related container field, as is the case with related text fields.

can you help anyone

Thanks in advance

Gary.

[Garry Claridge]

Is the Related container field on the Layout used for the MainDB?

The best method is to construct the path, in HTML, from the image name. However, the names may not be available to you!

You may also be able to use an [FMP-InlineAction] to display the image.

Good Luck.

Garry

[gaz]

Thanks Garry,

It was on the layout, but just as a normal linked field.

Then I created a 1 row Portal and dropped a related field in there, after this the CDML seemed to find things with no problem ;-)

The strange thing is, I then deleted the portal and it worked with just the field.

I guess it's just one of those things ;-)

Thanks for your Help.

Gary.