Landy,
You can get the info you need from a container with the following exercise:
Insert a picture into a container field ("MyContainer") with "as reference"
checked.
Create a calc field, "MyMetadata" with expression: GetAsText ( MyContainer ).
In this calc field you'll see the path, along with other metadata.
Will send you a sample file with does this on the Windows side, but the Mac
won't be too different.
--
Steve Gerow
FileMaker 9/8/7 Certified Developer
President
Abrazos Data Consulting, Inc.
Pasadena, California
Member FileMaker Bus. Alliance
> -------Original Message-------
> From: Landy Atkinson <[email protected]>
> Subject: Importing single photos into FMP10 database of images
> Sent: Sep 18 '09 10:32
>
> I have used the Import File script step to import whole folders of
> images and a very important side benefit is that you also get the File
> Name, File Path and Image Thumbnail. Knowing the image path, lets me
> parse the path to get other useful information based on the directory
> structure (such as the year and topic the imported file came from)
> that I put in the database along with the image. This is very useful
> in searching the database for the images I want. {NOTE: This only
> work because as the images are saved from the camera to the server, I
> am careful about creating a YEAR folder with TOPIC folders inside.}
>
> If I want to import a single image into the database, I have found no
> such nice solution. The Import Picture script step lets me select the
> desired image and gets it into the container field, but does not let
> me know the FILE NAME or the PATH from whence it came. Any ideas how
> to set up a script to import single images and also keep track of the
> filename and where it came from? Getting a thumbnail may be nice for
> a list view of images, but is not all that important to me.
>
> -Landy
>
