Using an image path

[SpaParts]

Hi Everyone,

Quick Intro:

I'm completely new to this forum and completely new to FM altogether. I just downloaded the trial FM10 Pro. I'm trying to help my boss/his business have better inventory management. I'm a web graphic designer. We have 6500+ products. I have already created a FM template and imported the product.

Question:

Is there a way to import an image path and name into the image field in our FM database?

Example: C:/images/product/892818-920.jpg

Currently our template (came w/ FM - Inventory) has a picture box. I'm looking for a quick way to point FM to the image folder and just upload a path and image name in the proper field. When I imported our product file there was no option for an image path in FM. We've already have our 6500+ images named to the corresponding product #.

Well, I hope I'm not asking too much being new to the forum.

Thank you,

Cris

[Ocean West]

Cris, welcome to the forums!

I would strongly recommend against using FMP to store images in containers or by references images by path. As this requires each users to maintain a OS level connection mapped to a server. Not to mention if you store files locally it will be extra bloat, and performance will degrade exponentially.

I strongly recommend you examine 360Works SuperContainer to manage files (not just images) that are stored on a server (webserver) and this allows all users to connect to the files with out having any network volumes mounted - depending on your need they could also be accessible outside the organization.

The product will automatically create different sizes of images on the fly (serverside) as needed by your solution.

Check it out here http://www.360works.com/supercontainer/

Edited March 12, 2009 by Guest

[SpaParts]

Hi Stephan,

Thanks for your input. I was hoping that we could simply use a path to a local drive. The images are low res, and we've got a copy of all of them on each computer. We don't need to edit them in anyway. The purpose is simply so that we can see the image with the product in the database. We already have a file with all the image names and paths in excel. Is there a way to import these to paths/image.names to our our database?

Thanks again for your help.

Edited March 12, 2009 by Guest

[Ocean West]

does this help any?

http://fmforums.com/forum/showpost.php?post/315193/