Client Image References

[Genx]

... 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, 2006 by Guest

[Kent Searight]

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

[Genx]

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

[Genx]

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

[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

[Kent Searight]

Does this topic address the issue?

[Genx]

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?