Export&Import field contents as images

[Rocksanda]

Hello,

I have a database with a single table and many layouts!

Each record has its fields on each layout, the connection between the layouts for one record are 2 fields which concerns the name of the person!

The main layout for pictures has 8 multimedia fields, where pictures are being added and a button to open another layout where the chosen picture is shown in a bigger format, there for 8 records for each single picture field, which are built as containers!

How could I export all this pictures and import them in another database which has the same form?

thank you in advance, I am learning alone how to use FileMaker I could use some good advices!

All the best

[TheTominator]

How could I export all this pictures and import them in another database which has the same form?

Is this "other database" also a FileMaker database?

[Rocksanda]

Both are the same one, one is used by me and the other one by someone else on a different computer with no connection with mine!

They differe in images! They both contain the same records, but one record from the first doesn't have the pictures from the second! and each record has it's own layouts whic contain the images, 8/Record

How could I update images fields, exporting the pictures to a file with their path and importing them embeded in the second one?

Edited March 27, 2010 by Guest

[TheTominator]

How could I export all this pictures and import them in another database which has the same form?

The second FileMaker database can import these pictures directly from the first database file.

Use Import Records... from the File menu on the second database. Select to import from the first database.

If you cannot reach the first file directly from the second file because they are not on the same computer or are not networked, you can either copy the first file (and any external image files it may reference) and move the copy within reach of the second database or use Export from the File menu to create a new FileMaker file containing only the images. Choose FileMaker as the file format in the export file. Only the FileMaker format can handle the Container fields.

[Rocksanda]

Thank you it worked well like this!

Before asking I tried to do a script which could export automatically but it is not working! It gives me an error like the $filepath couldn't be created, cause there is not enough space etc!

How could I obtain the good script? I can't seem to find the mistake in it!

Edited March 27, 2010 by Guest