Recently I switched from FMP 5 umlimted/cdml to apache/lasso/FM 6 to serve my web site. Site is being served on an Xserve running OSX Server 10.3. Everything seems to be working fine, except when it comes to displaying images. When displaying search results that include an image, my results page frequently "misses" images (displays the little ? in a box), and even worse, seems to be bringing filemaker to a halt ("filemaker not responding") every day or so. Some stats:

The database that holds the images contains only 650 records or so, and the images are in a container field and are small, small jpegs (>15k). I'm using the older [img: 'picture'] tag in the results.lasso page, after getting similar but worse results from the reccommended [File_Serve: (Database_FMContainer: 'Image'), -Type='image/jpeg', -File='FileMakerImage.jpg'] method.

In either case, it works for a while, but filemaker seems to hate it. You can see the page at http://www.immersionresearch.com/closeouts.lasso if it's still working. FYI, CDML performed this exact operation almost flawlessly for years.

signed,

Confused in Confluence

Recently I switched from FMP 5 umlimted/cdml to apache/lasso/FM 6 to serve my web site. Site is being served on an Xserve running OSX Server 10.3. Everything seems to be working fine, except when it comes to displaying images. When displaying search results that include an image, my results page frequently "misses" images (displays the little ? in a box), and even worse, seems to be bringing filemaker to a halt ("filemaker not responding") every day or so. Some stats:

The database that holds the images contains only 650 records or so, and the images are in a container field and are small, small jpegs (>15k). I'm using the older [img: 'picture'] tag in the results.lasso page, after getting similar but worse results from the reccommended [File_Serve: (Database_FMContainer: 'Image'), -Type='image/jpeg', -File='FileMakerImage.jpg'] method.

In either case, it works for a while, but filemaker seems to hate it. You can see the page at http://www.immersionresearch.com/closeouts.lasso if it's still working. FYI, CDML performed this exact operation almost flawlessly for years.

signed,

Confused in Confluence

Recently I switched from FMP 5 umlimted/cdml to apache/lasso/FM 6 to serve my web site. Site is being served on an Xserve running OSX Server 10.3. Everything seems to be working fine, except when it comes to displaying images. When displaying search results that include an image, my results page frequently "misses" images (displays the little ? in a box), and even worse, seems to be bringing filemaker to a halt ("filemaker not responding") every day or so. Some stats:

The database that holds the images contains only 650 records or so, and the images are in a container field and are small, small jpegs (>15k). I'm using the older [img: 'picture'] tag in the results.lasso page, after getting similar but worse results from the reccommended [File_Serve: (Database_FMContainer: 'Image'), -Type='image/jpeg', -File='FileMakerImage.jpg'] method.

In either case, it works for a while, but filemaker seems to hate it. You can see the page at http://www.immersionresearch.com/closeouts.lasso if it's still working. FYI, CDML performed this exact operation almost flawlessly for years.

signed,

Confused in Confluence

You may have a couple of corrupt images!

Good Luck.

Garry

You may have a couple of corrupt images!

Good Luck.

Garry

You may have a couple of corrupt images!

Good Luck.

Garry

Howdy! I couldn't see the images (3/14/05 4:30pm California, USA) but if you're storing them in your db in container fields, maybe you should try turning Instant Web Publishing on and seeing if it is a FileMaker issue or something else. Alternatively, I think most folks find that exteral storage of images seems to work better anyway; they just store paths/urls to graphics instead of the images themselves. I don'tk know how many you have, but you could probably do copy/paste into Preview or Photoshop if you need to get them out of FM again and don't have the originals.

Odd that you say "it works for a while" though. Inconsistent performance is always hard to trackdown.

--ST

Howdy! I couldn't see the images (3/14/05 4:30pm California, USA) but if you're storing them in your db in container fields, maybe you should try turning Instant Web Publishing on and seeing if it is a FileMaker issue or something else. Alternatively, I think most folks find that exteral storage of images seems to work better anyway; they just store paths/urls to graphics instead of the images themselves. I don'tk know how many you have, but you could probably do copy/paste into Preview or Photoshop if you need to get them out of FM again and don't have the originals.

Odd that you say "it works for a while" though. Inconsistent performance is always hard to trackdown.

--ST

Howdy! I couldn't see the images (3/14/05 4:30pm California, USA) but if you're storing them in your db in container fields, maybe you should try turning Instant Web Publishing on and seeing if it is a FileMaker issue or something else. Alternatively, I think most folks find that exteral storage of images seems to work better anyway; they just store paths/urls to graphics instead of the images themselves. I don'tk know how many you have, but you could probably do copy/paste into Preview or Photoshop if you need to get them out of FM again and don't have the originals.

Odd that you say "it works for a while" though. Inconsistent performance is always hard to trackdown.

--ST

Thanks for the replys- yeah I had to take the page down becasue it was freezing filemaker about every two hours. The "inconsistant performance" has been my main clue, and subsequently have been persuing Garry's bad image theory by replacing all 640 images. Uggh.

If that doesnt work, I'll try the external file idea. That's probably how I should have done it from the get-go.

Anyway, thanks again, I appreciate the help, and try and keep the karma by helping out the next guy if I can.

-J

Thanks for the replys- yeah I had to take the page down becasue it was freezing filemaker about every two hours. The "inconsistant performance" has been my main clue, and subsequently have been persuing Garry's bad image theory by replacing all 640 images. Uggh.

If that doesnt work, I'll try the external file idea. That's probably how I should have done it from the get-go.

Anyway, thanks again, I appreciate the help, and try and keep the karma by helping out the next guy if I can.

-J

Thanks for the replys- yeah I had to take the page down becasue it was freezing filemaker about every two hours. The "inconsistant performance" has been my main clue, and subsequently have been persuing Garry's bad image theory by replacing all 640 images. Uggh.

If that doesnt work, I'll try the external file idea. That's probably how I should have done it from the get-go.

Anyway, thanks again, I appreciate the help, and try and keep the karma by helping out the next guy if I can.

-J

Male sure you have the latest updates for your version of FM. I know certain browsers were crashing FM some time ago until an update fixed it.

Good Luck.

Garry

Male sure you have the latest updates for your version of FM. I know certain browsers were crashing FM some time ago until an update fixed it.

Good Luck.

Garry

Male sure you have the latest updates for your version of FM. I know certain browsers were crashing FM some time ago until an update fixed it.

Good Luck.

Garry