New and trying to Place images from an image file.

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Hello
I am new to Servoy and have been working with it. I ran into an issue that I have not been able to find a solution to.
I work in a school system I have student pictures that I want to include on one of my forms. I have all 12000 images (JPEG) in a folder inside Servoy and would like to make a link to the pictures and display in a forms page.
I have used Filemaker and its Import folder function to list the student numbers along with the photo filename. I then exported and created a mysql database that matches the student number with the picture filename.
I am now trying to use Servoy to display the picture on the form by going to the student number and placing the picture from the image file on the form. I am not positive how to accomplish this. I would imagine you need to place a place holder on the form and then load the picture into the place holder. I want this to happen when you open the form.
If there is a better way to do this I am open for this.
I am very new at this even using methods but have been having some success.

Thanks Bob

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Hello Bob,

Welcome!

You will find that Servoy and the databases you can use with Servoy differ ‘a little’ from FileMaker :)

I would really consider to ‘throw’ the images into the database. That way they are accessible from all clients. When you don’t do that you will need to create a way to show the images on the server in a client.
The, imho, obvious way would then be to place the in a directory in the tomcat server ${servoy root}/server/webapps/ROOT. Then you can access them with via an url and display them in a html field.

I can imagine the above is a bit overwhelming but it is the simple version. The long version of these can be found in the docs or the forum for sure…

Have fun with Servoy!