Portals showing images

[wwyngaard]

I have a specification solution that needs to have up to 5 images linked to 1 specification so I thought I would just relate them. They display fine in a portal along with several text fields. The problem is that I cannot get the images to display through the web companion. The text fields display fine but not the images. I also cannot get even a related container to display outside of the portal.

I am wrong in making them related or should I just insert them into containers within the spec file. My thought was that having 5 pdf's at 100k each and several thousand specs the file will get big and slow quickly.

Any thoughts or ideas.

Wayne

[jacottam]

You are correct to be using a realtionship if not all records have the same number of images. It is what I have similarly decided to do. There are some tricks that you must know to get information to the web via a relationship.

1-The information you are trying to use must be displayed on a layout in your database.

2-You must specify that layout using the -lay CDML variable tag. This can either be done in-line in a link or as a "hidden" INPUT element on a form. In either case it follows the same format as the -DB or -Format elements (-tag=xxxxx).

3-Specifying the fields you want to dispaly is in the same syntax with the field tag as FilemakerPro uses internally: [FMP-Field: realtionship::field] (yes, there are two colons).

Below is some sample code I am using to display images through a portal. Pictures are held through a relationship called gardenPictures and in a field named Picture:

<DIV STYLE="overflow:auto; height:10px; width:120px;">

[FMP-Portal: gardenPictures]

<DIV STYLE="position: relative;overflow: hidden;top: 1px;left: 1px;height: 60px;width: 100px;">

<IMG CLASS="dbDataImage" SRC="[FMP-Image: gardenPictures: icture]" WIDTH="69" HEIGHT="52" ALIGN="MIDDLE">

</DIV>

[/FMP-Portal]

</DIV>

I hope this helps.