Richard,
One other trick that might get you closer to "what you see is what you
get" in the container field is viewing it in a web portal. If the
files are stored as a reference AND they are in a web-friendly format
like a pdf or jpeg, you could create a url to them and display it in a
web portal. Then you'd actually see the file. Don't think it would
work for a word or excel file though.
Just a thought...
On May 8, 2009, at 6:00 PM, FMPRO-L automatic digest system wrote:
Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 00:35:31 -0500
From: "Richard S. Russell" <[email protected]>
Subject: What's in That Container Field?
FMP 9 and FMPA 9, Mac OS 10.4.11
You can store a file in a container field. When you issue the "Insert
File" command, you're given the option of storing either the file
itself or a reference (link, path, etc.) to the file in whatever
location it's stored on your hard disk (or maybe your entire network;
haven't tried that at all).
But, AFAICT, after you've done the insertion what you SEE in the
field is a document icon with a file name underneath, regardless of
whether you've stored the file itself or a reference to it. I'd like
to be able to display for my users which kind of thing they've got in
that field, but I couldn't find either a Get or Design function that
would tell me.
IS there such a function?
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