I have a large database of thousands of books and have now been given hundreds of image files (that I've been able to relate to my book database by creating a separate "image path" table which stores my book ID number and the file path where the related image is stored. The images, however, have been named by the supplier so they do not instantly relate to my database) and I want to somehow, by using the book ID relationship, store the path references in my new container field in the book database so that I can view the image.

As I'm relatively new to FP8 and container fields I am hoping someone may be able to help. I hope so!

If you know the path to an image, you can view the image in a calculation field that returns the path as container. See also here.

Thanks for your reply.

Having looked at the thread and tested it I have another concern.

Am I correct in thinking that the "image" will not take up any significant file storage other than having a new calculation field as it is only displayed when the record is visible?

Like any other calculation field: if you make it unstored, the results will be evaluated only when needed.