I am frustrated adding JPEG photos to my Filemaker catalog one at a time. Is there a plug-in available that would allow batch processing of numerous JPEG photos all at once?

What platform are you working on? This wouldn't be too difficult using AppleScript on the Mac platform. On Windows, such a solution might be possible using WinBatch, I hear.

Chuck

I'm also looking for an efficient and flexible way to build graphics and media resource libraries. I have been shopping around for the right plug-ins for the job.

I would like to learn from anyone familiar with how these plug-ins compare.

Thanks,

The problem is that FileMaker only imports one specified file within in a script (if you don't want the user to select the file each time), but for a batch-import you want to import different files, let's say all the files in a folder. Nevertheless there is a way to do batch-import with the help of the TroiFile-Plugin (www.troi.com). With this plugin it is possible to do multiple file manipulation on the harddisc. The trick to do batch import is to use a loop with a normal FM-import and to replace and rename the import-file each time.

So the FM-script looks basically like this:

1. let the user choose a folder that contains the import-files (TroiFile-Plugin)

2. put the paths to these files in a containerfield (TroiFile-Plugin)

2. start the loop

3. new record

4. copy one file (first path) to the folder with the import-file (TroiFile-Plugin)

5. delete old import-file (TroiFile-Plugin)

6. rename the new file to the name FileMaker expects for the import (TroiFile-Plugin)

7. import to a field

8. delete first path from the containerfield

9. exit loop if containerfield is empty

10. end loop

Of course a little more programming is neccessary and this is not recommeded for FM-beginners.

I hope my german-english is understandable, greetings, Michael

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Michael Adams

Germany

There is also a plug in set called Heni and iMago by Abstrakt. Here's the URL:

http://www.abstrakt.com/

It will do many different file formats.

Check it out.