Image Reference File Question (Web Reports)

[peteconway]

Re: Image Reference File Question (Web Reports)

This is a real Bugga! - I'll put it into my system and try it.

[Steve Wood]

Re: Image Reference File Question (Web Reports)

Sleep?

[peteconway]

Re: Image Reference File Question (Web Reports)

Well it didn't like having img as the files or report name or fieldname, made some progress, 1am here - got to get some sleep, will look again tomorrow.

[Steve Wood]

Re: Image Reference File Question (Web Reports)

Here is the project for anyone to try. The two images are in the zip file, but not necessarily in the right folder for publishing.

[peteconway]

Re: Image Reference File Question (Web Reports)

Send it (table\images\) to me.

[Steve Wood]

Re: Image Reference File Question (Web Reports)

Well I'm embarassed, but I cannot get it to work. I've copied my image files to my where my data resides, what is referenced with [PathAlias.ADB_Path].

I went remote to my server, opened the table and corrected the filenames to point to the images that did appear in my data location. I had to correct the filenames because my local system has a different folder structure as my server. But the images now appear in the table, on the server. Then I run the report and get just the field name where the images should appear.

It works on the local system, it works published to Localhost, it does not work on the server. My version is not current, but it is past the 1923-3234 patch that updated how image reference fields behaved on the web.

[peteconway]

Re: Image Reference File Question (Web Reports)

Yep ! Just not got around to it, also I want to keep doing the banner and banner text grid for flex in the app for the moment - lots of potenital, I' send you a WIP on the email, what you will see is everything in alpha grids running as images and menu's - long way to go but it's getting there.

Peter

[Steve Wood]

Re: Image Reference File Question (Web Reports)

I see it, a series of header graphics! By the way, since this is on the ATG Web Template, did I give you the update that lets you put a different header image on each page?

[peteconway]

Re: Image Reference File Question (Web Reports)

The code:

dim filter as c 
dim order as c 
Filter = ".T."
Order = ""
Dim filename as c 
filename = session.session_folder + "tempreport.pdf"
filename = report.saveas("web_banners@[PathAlias.ADB_Path]\web_banner_text.ddd","pdf",filter,order,filename,.f.)
if file.exists(filename) 
	currentform.RedirectTarget = session.session_url + "tempreport.pdf?" +  time("hms3")
end if

As for the error the temp.pdf does not clear - need to take a look.

[peteconway]

Re: Image Reference File Question (Web Reports)

Give it a go now - I've restarted the WAS.

Nothing special about th code all from the genie.

Open your table, right click the image, see where it points to, if it's not in or under the data table folder it won't work.

[Steve Wood]

Re: Image Reference File Question (Web Reports)

I get an error when I run the report, but I believe you. Can you just send me the table/report/dialog involved in this. I can't get it to work and its a vital last step of a near complete project.

[peteconway]

Re: Image Reference File Question (Web Reports)

Yep it works...

http://117.74.99.4/wt_ozsaver/web_sample.a5w


The above is a report that has a field called image from a table. The images in the image reference field are located in the:
webroot\Project_Name.WebProjects\default.WebProjects\images\banners

Location

[peteconway]

Re: Image Reference File Question (Web Reports)

I'll take a look - also is it just me or has the Print Genie disapeard in the latest patch? (In the dialog builder)

[Steve Wood]

Re: Image Reference File Question (Web Reports)

I don't see that this fixed anything. I still cannot get an image to appear in a PDF report when run on a WAS server. It works at localhost, not on the server. Has anyone made this work?

[NoeticCC]

Re: Image Reference File Question (Web Reports)

I kept at this, it was a bug - Jerry has now advised the following.

Peter

We had added a fix and it should be in the next release build. You can now have the same image in the grid and detail without any problems. If you use image file reference fields, we also found a problem. If you didn't specify an alias for the image path in the component, the system might not find the linked image if it was in the database folder or a subfolder under the data. The system now will add the alias to the database folder as a default. If you specifed a full path in the image file reference, that will still work.

Jerry Brightbill

Great news! I had wondered why there were problems with our news pages until I realised it was to do with the same image being used twice in a grid.