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Struggling with UX Image Upload Component

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    Struggling with UX Image Upload Component

    Hi,

    I am still an alpha newbie here. What I am trying to do is simply upload an image file to a directory on my server and capture a filename to include in a sql table. In v11 I could do this just fine in the Grid component, however at this stage I really want to be able to do this directly in a UX component.

    I have the Image control and the button with the onclick action javascript for Image Upload - it is all exactly the same. Only difference is the Image control is now C instead of I (can't seem to find a way to choose Image Reference Field in the UX component - is this correct?).

    I am not scaling the image. I am leaving the default allowed image extensions and max image size the same. I have tried putting both an absolute path and a relative path in the Upload Folder field. I have tried both using a transformation expression and leaving that field blank. No matter what I do, or what type of image I upload and submit in the UX, I always get "images/null_1x1.png.a5image" as the data for the Image field and nothing gets added to the directory in the server. Does anyone have any ideas why this would be happening?

    I've watched the videos for both data binding and non data binding image upload for the UX component but neither show how to upload the actual image file to the server - only working with binary data. Can anyone summarize what the key differences are? If I were to do data binding with a binary field, would a browser be able to display that image after retrieving the binary data from the table?

    Thank you very much for your help.

    Carl G
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    Re: Struggling with UX Image Upload Component

    Hi Carl,

    I am doing the same thing myself, so let's see if I can help you with this.
    I'm using a data-bound image control called IMAGE1 on the UX component to hold my image.

    Image Control.jpg

    The IMAGE1 field is bound to a character field called PARTPHOTO in my database which holds the location of the image file.

    Binding.jpg and Data Binding 2.jpg

    I use a button on the UX component to initiate the image upload.

    Upload Button.jpg

    In the button's Javascript OnClick event, I have defined the Action Javascript Event to upload the image to a network folder called T:\Alpha5\Photos.

    Image Upload Action.jpg

    I think that should do it.
    Last edited by iRadiate; August 01, 2013, 08:42 AM. Reason: Clarify explanation
    Alpha Anywhere v12.4.6.5.7 Build 9305-5711 IIS v10.0 on Windows Server 2019 Std in Hyper-V

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      Re: Struggling with UX Image Upload Component

      This is what the component looks like when it is rendered in the browser:

      UX Component.JPG
      Alpha Anywhere v12.4.6.5.7 Build 9305-5711 IIS v10.0 on Windows Server 2019 Std in Hyper-V

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        Re: Struggling with UX Image Upload Component

        Thanks Stephen. I appreciate the effort. However, unfortunately, I still can't get it to work. I followed your screenshots exactly. I tried it both in my web application and on my localhost. I tried within the UX component I have been working with and on a brand new UX component with only the Image upload functionality. No matter what, the image does not upload to the server folder and the image field returns "images/null_1x1.png.a5image" instead of the name of the image file. The image, however, shows up fine on the UX component itself. I triple checked to make sure I was following your screenshots exactly. Clearly, I am doing something wrong but I can't figure out what. The only thing I can think of is the upload folder, since that is obviously different than yours. If this was incorrect, would this cause the image not to upload anywhere and for the Image character field to return "images/null_1x1.png.a5image"? Do you know what it means when the image field is "images/null_1x1.png.a5image"?

        Thanks again for your help.

        Carl

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          Re: Struggling with UX Image Upload Component

          Carl, I am having this same problem... did you ever get it resolved? I am only trying to get the image into a server folder.

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