Image Linking and Exporting

[clarislover]

Hello everyone and Happy new Year!

I have quite a similar problem and i really don't know how to solve it. i read this thread and it did help me a lot. but i was wondering how i could share files from a FMP server over the network. so here's my situation:

the calculation i have in my database works just fine. the problem is every time i try to export the content of the field onto, say my desktop from a filemakert client on the network, the software tells me that the file could not be found, therefore the export cannot take place.

what kind of script can i write that will allow me to download a file that's referenced in a database, and that's also residing on a folder on the fmp server hard drive. right now, i can download the file from teh server itself using teh client version of filemaker, but every time i try to do this from a network mac, the operation fails because the file cannot be found. i've attempted the follwing calculation with no success:

"imagemac:/Macintosh HD/Users/John/Documents/I mages/holiday.jpg" --> The picture shows up on a networked client but fails to be exported.

is there anyway i can get this to work without using the web component of the filemaker pro server?

Many thanks for all of your help.

[IdealData]

The path information for the local and remote FMP clients is different, but most importantly you are running a large risk by having the FMServer hard drive shared on the network.

I have tried a few times to resolve this issue too, and I always end up with the conclusion that I must store the images in a FMP file on the server - not as references.

Incidentally, as you mentioned the web component it's worth remembering that any files that FMP needs to reference (for web publishing) must be in the Web folder.

[clarislover]

Thank you very much for your input.

Cheers,

Clarislover

[redballoon]

I Was wondering,

It looks like this works but I would like some input.....

If I reference an Illustrator file then the image appears in Filemaker, however I really want to delete the original files, so I would like to import a refrence so you can see the thing and also import the actual file into a hidden field (Container) then I have a viewable image and the original file which can be exported any time.... ? However how can Filemaker "Capture that image" which it references ? so that when it moves the image filemaker showes is still there ?