Migrating from container-based structure to SC...

[coltom]

Sorry for the length of my (first) post here but I need a bit of hand-holding to get SC integrated into my solution...

In my current solution I have a 200-pixel wide 3-row 'chooser' portal alongside an equal height single row portal. At present a scripted button lets a user load a reference to a thumb image, chosen from the mounted volume of the image server, into a container field in the chooser portal row. This generates a portal that can be scrolled quickly to find the desired image. Clicking the chooser portal row filters the main portal so it matches the chosen image. The main portal has a calc field (result container) that parses the thumb image path to generate the path to the high res image on the mounted volume. This works really quite well although, of course, the user has to have the mounted volume available and, as I have both Mac and Windows clients, the image path calc has to be platform independent.

How would I recreate this structure using SC? I have 5-6 clients (Win & Mac) and FMS10 on a Win Server2008 box. The images are on a second Server2008 box.

[Smef]

You can do a very similar thing with SuperContainer, though you will not need to have your users choose a thumbnail image.

I would recommend using an unstored calc container field in your table along with the SuperContainer Companion plugin to download a thumbnail of your image from the SuperContainer server in your portals.

I don't know how your relationships are set up, but if you are selecting one record at a time you shouldn't need to use a second portal to display the actual data. You can display the data from the selected record to the right of the portal, including a larger web viewer which could show a larger image of the uploaded file and allow you users to drag-and-drop files into it.

....Portal....

[   record   ] [ selected record ][               ]

[---record---] [ selected record ][   web viewer  ]

[   record   ] [ selected record ][               ]

Edited August 24, 2010 by Guest