Insert Picture Script Step

[Chris1961]

Hi

I have a huge amount of photographs that I would like to be able to search on by keyword.

I have set up a basic db with the following fields:

Thumbnail : Container; the thumbnail image imported from the specified directory

Path ; text ; the pathname to the file

FileName ; text ; The name of the actual image

Photo ; container ; the actual photo itself

Keywords ; text ; keywords associated with that photo

The idea is that I want to import all pics from 1 directory and all of its subdirectories. No problem here, works fine importing the thumbnail, file path and file name.

I then want to search on the keywords to narrow down the viewed thumbnails. So maybe I end up with a found set of 15 records (pics)

Then, if I click on the thumbnail, I would like to 'Insert Picture' to the Photo field. The idea being to keep the size of the db to a minimum by viewing the thumbnail all of the time and only viewing the actual photo if it is selected.

The imported file path looks like: file://G:/Data/Pics/filename.ext

I thought that the file:// referred to a network drive though??

When I try to use Insert Picture in a script though, FM does not find the photo file. I have changed the format of the path for the Insert Picture script step to be imagewin://G:/Data/Pics/filename.ext using a Variable but still won't work. Also tried using imagewin:/G:/.............. No good though.

I think that I have to use the 'full path' option in the Insert Picture step because I am using several drives to source the thumbnails from.

Can anyone put me right please on the correct usage of the Insert Picture step in a script?

TIA

ChrisD