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Getting binary data into the container field of filemaker using ODBC

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Hi,

I am not sure whether this is the right place to post this link and chosed this general import and export topic for this..

I am having an application in filemaker 9.

Suppose a table Employee has all combination of field (text,number, date, container)

This project was given to a development team to get the data into this application via ODBC from another ODBC compliant application say APPX..

From this APPX my development team was able to get text,date, number etc data properly in to the filemaker application. But they we not able to get the binary data in to the container fields of FM.

Did anybody have been encounterd with such issue? Please help me out as almost 90% functionality of importing data into my filemaker application has been successfull, it is this binary data only that I am not able to get in to the container fields. Is it normally allowed by ODBC or I will need a plugni or so..Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks..!!!

Not and expert on this.

the question you might want to ask is if the binary data is actually stored in the ODBC compliant database in FileMaker's equivalent of a container field, or is just a file reerence stored and the binary file actually lives in it's own folder.

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