... umm righto, heres the question right... i want to store only references of images... but i want the filepath to be evaluated in the context of the file thats hosted... i.e. on the server... i dont want a user to have to have a genericly mapped drive to the correct folder...

Anyone help? this is a fairly crucial thing that would be great if i could avoid it... (p.s. ive got a backend front end split not that it should matter)...

Cheers, genx

Edited January 24, 200620 yr by Guest

Coudn't a text calculation convert it to any path format you want? What exactly are you trying to do?

... yeh a text calculation could.. ... but ive decided to just host all photos using apache and just do it all that way..

the point of the exersise was that the photos werent stored and silly me i forgot that calculation fields are evaluated in terms of the backend anyway... hence my question was stupid.. fun fun

cheers, genx

... i think ... can someone set me straight on this cause i am confusing the hell out of myself... my pictures are unstored calculations with result container... lets say they are stored in c:images on the server... will the client side try and re-evaluate the calculation as c:images on the client side or not? ...even though the front end is only storing a re-ference to the backend where the physical calculation field is stored... ive been giving myself a headache over this... someone set me straight.. cheers

genx

Does this topic address the issue?

not exactly.. i just want to know what context the calculation will evaluate in... considering all table occurances in my front end are references to the backend... all i really want to know is if the calcs will evaluate at the backend or on the client side...

i.e. will the file path C:images evaluate on the server... or will the calculation field attempt to search fro c:images on the clientside?