Can I display a container image (stored on FMS12A) in a web viewer?

[HALBURN]

I currently have a web viewer that is displaying user avatar images in an iChat-like display window. I am currently referencing the avatar images from our company's webserver.

<img src = "http://mydomain.com/FM_ICHAT_IMAGES/avatar01.jpg" />

I would rather pull the images directly from a remote container field that are being stored on a FM12A server. Is this possible?

[dansmith65]

I would imagine it's possible. You would need a web server that has access to the container files and you would need to know the file name that FileMaker saved the image as (it will re-name a container file if a file already exists with that name).

 

You have to be careful if you access externally stored container files directly, though. FileMaker did not intend for you to do this so you may run into unexpected issues.

 

I wouldn't give the web server write access to the remote container directory.