Hello, I have an inventory system running on Filemaker 11 and I would like to add pictures of my items into the database. The thing is I have over 20,000 items in my database and adding the images individually sounds like a chore. I already have the images named with the item number of the item it's a picture of, so is there a way I can automatically add images to my database based on the file name and the item number and have users connecting to the database on my Filemaker server be able to see them?

I don't think you need to import them at all. You could simply create a calculation field (result is Container) and calculate the path to the corresponding image, using the item number as part of the calculation.

 

To see what the resulting path should look like, you can insert one of the images into a container field (as reference only), and look at the result of GetAsText ( Containerfield ) in the Data Viewer..

Data Viewer? I made an AppleScript that did it, but the pictuers wouldn't show up for any computer other than the one I ran the script on.

AppleScript?

 

the pictuers wouldn't show up for any computer other than the one I ran the script on.

 

I believe you need to calculate a full remote path - see:

http://www.filemaker.com/13help/en/html/create_db.8.42.html#1087742