Ok, I've gotten the if/else thing down pretty good, as well as the relationship thing. Combining them is a different story.

Am I close?

[FMP-If:RELATIONSHIP2 hoto1.neq.]

<img src="http://www.XYZCOMPANY.com/XYZpicts/[FMP-FIELD: RELATIONSHIP2: hoto1]">

[FMP-Else] <img src="http://www.XYZCOMPANY.com/images/empty.gif">

[/FMP-If]

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, are you trying to say that if the field is not empty, return the picture?

I don't think that the the problem is with the relationship, but that the 'neq' conditional isn't working with a blank.

I do this one by returning a calulation field from the database for the picture which is:

If(IsEmpty(imagename),"images/"&"zero.gif", "images/"&imagename)

This might have the advantage of being stored rather than generated each time like an "If" (is this right???)

regards, Jeff

Actually what I am trying to say is:

If the item has a picture (the picture name is in a related field) show it,

If not put in another (blank) image (blank.gif)

Am I being clear? or am I making no sense?

Thanks

IM

Hi, that's what I thought you were trying to do!

So, if you have no picture, then the 'photo1' field is empty?

I still think that this is the problem with using the 'If' statement - it can't work with the blank after 'neq.' - so I come back to thinking that it's an easier work-around to do the calculation in the related database and use that field.

Jeff

PS: I have some examples of this if I'm not bieng clear.

Thanks for all the input. Believe it or not it was just a dumb error. I only had one colon in the relationship portion. Sometimes it is just best walk away, sorry to waste any of your time.

....I sympathise here. If i could spell fieldnames right, my pages would work better

Jeff

Jeff, yes fieldnames (or field) when spelled filednames (or filed) always spell-checks correctly. The answer may be to search your document for filednames (or filed). ;-)