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On Jun 19, 11:23 am, Jeroen <jer... (AT) clickworks (DOT) be> wrote:

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On Jun 19, 12:21 pm, Jeroen <jer... (AT) clickworks (DOT) be> wrote:

On Jun 18, 3:00 pm, thdyo... (AT) googlemail (DOT) com wrote:

Thanks Jens: I'm on FMP7 so variables aren't available

I had to do it all manually anyway because of time pressure

Now dealing w pain of file paths in calculations

I have images folder in the web subfolder of FMP in Applications IOW /
Apps/FMP/Web/pixfolder

The FMP file is in: /Users/me/Documents/jobs/jobx/jobxdox

I am going a little nutz trying to work out what filepath will work

I did one of these calculation fields with a container result before
and it worked. I've now changed the position of the FMP file compared
to the pixfolder and it just isn't resolving...

gnashing of teeth

Marmot

Marmot,

Specifiy the absolute path like "filemac:/Macintosh HD/Users/Jeroen/
Documents/test.jpg". Replace the volume name and folders accordingly,
of course...

Jeroen Aarts
FileMaker 8 Certified Developerwww.clickworks.be-Hide quoted text -

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... and check if FileMaker has write privileges in that folder!!!

- Jeroen

Many thanks

I solved it

For some reason - perhaps you can say why - I found that I had to
write the filepath as a series of dot dots back to root: so it was a
question of correctly counting the number of .. to put in

having worked this out I found the correct (sorry: the one that
worked) path was "image:../../../../../../../../Applications/FileMaker
Pro 7/Web/blahfolder/" & blah_id & ".jpg"

this worked

I can't see why an absolute filepath wouldn't work - much simpler -
but it doesn't. Pain.

Marmot

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Re: images - 06-19-2007 , 12:32 PM