Text and Image fields of varying size??

[nycpost]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to design a "Help" section for my database that houses procedures lists for how to use the DB and accomplish certain tasks.

My hope was to place a button link on each layout in the DB which would transport users to this section where they could choose a Help Document from a List layout and then display the text and images of the document itself on a form Layout.

That's the problem though. The help documents that I've drafted in TextEdit (mac) contain both text and images and now I can't figure out a good way to display both text and images together on a layout in a way that makes sense.

I can have the text field to hold the text, but then how do I integrate imagery in-line with that text? Would I need to split up the Help Document text into separate text fields with container fields in between for the images? What if size of the container field needs to change to fit the contents? Each Help Document contains different amounts of text and imagery.

If possible, I'd like to have one universal Form layout which would display the text and imagery of each different Help Document. I'm not sure that's possible, but figured I'd check before I started creating custom layouts for each Help Document (which I think is my only solution). Is there any way to do this with one universal layout?

Also, I experimented with PDFs (stored as Files, Quicktimes, etc.), but don't like any of these implementations. It's too difficult for me as the admin to make and publish changes to the documents. Having everything in the DB would really be great.

Does anyone have any suggestions for how best to accomplish this?

Thanks,

Mike

[bcooney]

How about using Webviewer or links to webpages?

[nycpost]

Thanks, bcooney. Those are both great ideas, I'm just not versed at all in creating web pages or hosting them to serve up to the viewer.

Webviewer can also be used to dislpay PDFs, correct?

[bcooney]

Yes. I'm sure searching will reveal some techniques.

Here's a start:

http://sixfriedrice.com/wp/filemaker-9-tip9-web-viewers-without-the-web/

[nycpost]

Well, that certainly is interesting. I'd have to look into it to see if I can embed images in-line, but it certainly is promising. Thanks, bcooney!