I have a report that shows information on a property, and most have only one pictures, but some have several. The picture name is the same as the property code on the one's with only one pictures for example 1500-1111 is the property name and the picutres is 1500-1111 The only difference in the picture name on the properties with multiple picutes is that they have an a, b, c, d etc after the code, for example the first pictures is 1500-1234 and the second is 1500-1234a and the third is 1500-1234b etc, and the property code is 1500-1234.
I need to figure out a way for all the pictures to show up if there is multiples. The report only contains info on one side, so the other could line up the pictures in a column form. Any suggestions would be great.
Thanks
Private Sub Report_Open(Cancel As Integer)
Me.FilterOn = True
Me.Filter = Forms!frmpropertydatabase.Filter
End Sub
Private Sub Detail_Format(Cancel As Integer, FormatCount As Integer)
If Len(Dir("H:ApartmentsApartment Property Photos" & Me.propertycodenumber & ".jpg")) = 0 Then
Me.imgEmpty.Picture = "H:ApartmentsApartment Property Photos
ophoto.jpg"
Else
Me.imgEmpty.Picture = "H:ApartmentsApartment Property Photos" & Me.propertycodenumber & ".jpg"
End If
End Sub
Hi there im trying to build a database that stores a large number of photos and would like some suggestions on how i can upload multiple photos (20+) at one time without uploading each one individualy, preferably through a form.
To outline the problem, each member of the team has a camera that they take to jobs, when they return i want them to be able to open a new form, enter the job number (the primary key) onto the form and then somehow drag and drop the pictures from the camera onto the form to upload them.
Is this possible through Access? is this the best way of uploading multiple photos easily? and how do i build this?
To start off I have only been working in Access(2003) for the past 2 months. And Yes I am a neebie of all neebies but please read on.
What I am trying to do is for every record I need to associate multiple pictures of damages to items in for repair. For example I have an High end Amplifier that came in for repair and the outside has markings of a fire(thats one pix) then opening it up we see that the fuses, wires and PC board has fire marks also(pix two) and so on. The record is keyed to the serial number. On the form my fields are Serial number, RMA #, all the senders info (name,address, contact number, store purchased, etc.). Then I created a subform for the picture with the following the picture itself, buttons(previous, next, add pic, delete pic) a hiden textbox(serial number) that I have joined(relationship) to the major form(serial number). How do I link the pic to that specific serial number and then other pictures that also link to that serial number.
I know its wordy but I wanted to make it as clear as I could.
Any way to copy files from a camera, to a new location using the dialog window and then resizing them before they reach there new destination. The selecting and copying them works fine, but I cannot find a way of resizing them in... or after the copying process.
My report has in each row at least 1 picture which is about 1.5" square when open; however, when trying to scroll up or down the pictures dazzles on and off while the pausing the scroll which moves slowly. If the pictures are removed the scrolling movement is normal.
How can this report scrolling be made more efficient?
I am using Access 2003 in a simple database and want to add digital pictures of each item in my database.
Before trying to enhance the database with pictures; the various fields are filled with either descriptive text or numbers. The size of the mdb database file is 464k.
I recently wanted to add a picture of each database entry. After adding a picture that is only 300k in size the mdb file increase to 18MD. Then after adding another picture also of 300k bytes my database grew to 25MB.
In the drop down menus Under Tools - Database Utilities - I ran the Compact & Repair Database. This did not reduce the size.
In the database Form I am using a Bound Object Frame to hold the picture and yes I am not linking the picture I am including it in the database. But, would only expect it to increase the database size by slightly more than the picture size.
I should also point out that the only way I have found to get the picture to be visible (not just an icon of the type of picture file) is to right click on the Bound Object Frame scroll down and choose Insert Object. Click on Create New and select Adobe Photoshop Image. This open adobe photoshop I make sure the picture properties are creating a picture of 300k.
So my question(s) is again. Why is my database increasing in size so rapidly? Is there a better to insert picture into a database?
I have two tables containing (let's say for simplicity) questions and attachments (pictures). I am trying to perform a union query to join all the questions and pictures into one report, but it won't let me union the attachment because 'the multi-valued field 'TableA.Pictures' cannot be used in a union query'.
I have searched and searched for a solution (and got kind of close) but i still can't get it to work. The best I can do is union everything like below, which gives all the questions as desired, but says #Error in the pictures column:
SELECT TableA.* FROM TableA Union SELECT TableB.* FROM TableB;
(Note tables A and B have the same structure, several yes/no and open text questions as well as one attachment field. )
I have 10 tables, 30+ fields on each table (every table has the same 'account number' field). I only need from 5 - 20 fields from each table. How do I get the certain fields from each table and put them in a table, query or report?
I have a three-column query that tells me how many hours I have available per week for a given resource type (e.g. welders). I have a second three-column query that tells me how many hours of work I have planned per week for a given resource type.I'm hoping to produce a query (the source for a report) that will show resource types in rows and twelve months in 24 columns. the first column for each month will show how many hours I have available for all my resources, the second column for each month will show how many hours I have allocated.
How do I produce a query that will combine the other two queries, inserting zeroes where necessary considering that for any given week I might have allocated work to a resource that isn't available (because the inconsiderate buggers think they are entitled to holiday) or I might have a resource that has no work allocated (because I'm incompetent)?
I like to make a small code in access to take pictures with any camera, then store with file name, date and time? please I need help.. if someone can give me an idea I appreciate this. thanks again..
OK, I asked this question a day or so ago and got some feed back. What I would really like is a difinative answer. Basically Yes or No. Is it possible to add small picture, (icon size) to a comobox. I realise its not good practice to have pictures embeded in the DB but on this occasion its what I need to do. Ive found software on the web that allows you to do it, which leads me to belive that it can be done, any ideas!
:confused: Could someone please help me. is it possible to add an animated microsoft GIF to an Access 2003 database splash screen. the picture works but the animation doesnt. If someone could please help i would be very grateful as it is needed for an assignment very soon. Thanks in anticipation.
I have Access 2003 and have trying for some time to insert pictures. I have followed the instructions step by step as outlined in the BIBLE and nothing. I recently acquired a new computer and the problems still persists. Can anyone help.
I need to do something in excel but I have never used excel before. I need to make a form with a box. When you click on the box it shhould promt you to add a picture to the box. It should also format the picture so that it is the same size as the box. So far we have the box, but we still need to figure out what code to input so that it prompts you to add an image and then resizes it to fit the box. This is the code we have so far:
With Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFilePicker) .Title = "Seleccione la imagen" .Filters.Add "All Files", "*.*" .Filters.Add "JPEGs", "*.jpg" .Filters.Add "Bitmaps", "*.bmp" .FilterIndex = 3 .AllowMultiSelect = False .InitialFileName = Application.Path result = .Show If (result <> 0) Then fileName = Trim(.SelectedItems.Item(1)) Image1.Picture = LoadPicture(fileName)
End If End With
I am not sure if this can be done in excel or if I have to use another application to do this. I need to figure this out within the next couple of days, so if you have ANY idea of how to do this please post a response.
I have trouble adding pictures to my forms. On the form when I add a picture, it just shows me the link and when I double click on it, it displays the .gif file. ( I did define it as an OLE object in the table) I am not sure if there is something specific I need to do in order to display the picture right there on the form.
I have search the forum for two days and can not find anything about this promble so any help would be good.
I am using a linked picture i have then browser setup and works ok but my issue is that i can not get the picture to refresh its self, with out going into design view and then back to my form, i would hope that there is a solution to this.
Any links would be good or general help would be great as i am starting to loss sleep over this now.
Can someone help me please. I have designed a product management database for a friend. He would like to be able to upload pictures of his products onto his database to be viewd later. So on the products form, I'd like two command buttons (I guess), one to define the file path and another to open that file path.
Any help on how to approach this would be very much appreciated!
I have two tables: one with data about compounds, the second with data about graphs of these compounds. (There may be many graphs for each compound).
I need a form that displays data about each compound, and in this same form, I'd like to show what graphs are associated with this compound and display a picture of each graph as it is selected.
I've tried both subforms and comboboxes and have not been successful.
I know if you use pictures in forms it makes the database file size very big, if you have a products database and want to show a picture of each product, therefore each picture is different, is there a way of doing this and keeping the database size reasonable?
I've built a database to attach pictures of people to their records. In the table it's designed as an "OLE Object". When you goto the form you can click on the box, tell it to insert object, find the file, and the picture can be displayed to the record.
I've since learned that this process inflates the database and with the recent update changes from Microsoft (removing Photo Editor) I'm trying to learn to create databases to insert pictures having the same result but won't inflat the database.
I've learned of a view method to insert pictures that are a little more complicated to create using coding. My problem with this method is you would have to type in the file location manually to get the picture to attach. I'm working in a location that needs this process to be simpler then that. I need to find a way to browse for that picture instead of having to type in the file location manually.
What is wrong with this linked pictures in my database? I have made OLE field in a table and I want to insert pictures in that field with option "linked". But pictures are not exactly linked. First, they take a lot of space in a database, almost as inserted pictures (If inserted picture takes 30Mb than linked picture takes 20Mb). I thought it is only going to save a link (target location) to a file. Also, when I insert link to a picture ina OLE field and delete this picture in windows - I can still see this picture on a form in my application. So, is it linked or inserted (only difference is that I can't edit linked picture if it's deleted in windows but I can see picture in a form). How can I insert only link to a picture in my database so I can see pictures in forms and reports and pictures stays only in windows and takes a minimum space in my database (only for a target informations)??? Thanks!
I've noticed a few posts on the subject of images but there's lots of different scenarios and I'm hoping someone with far more knowledge can give me some basic pointers for my specific case so I can research it more fully.
Basically part of my database is storing properties, then there's a separate table for property photos as each property can have between 0 and infinity photos (theoretically, the max. is likely to be between 5 or 10).
From my understanding so far it will be best to store a path to each picture as a text field in the database as we're looking at 100+ photos easily from the start which I understand would cause a huge database using OLE linking.
I've got a couple of articles on how to take the path and display it as a picture on the form, not tried it yet but had a read through and it all seems fine.
What I need to ask is the best way to do a couple of things...
When viewing a property via a form is it easy-ish/possible to display thumbnails and captions for all the associated images? Could it then be set up so you could click each image to view it full size?
I need a slightly more user friendly way of adding the photos than just typing in file paths. What I imagine the cleanest way would be blank boxes which you'd click, get a Browse... window to pick the image then once you'd picked one it would place a thumbnail in the box, or something similar. However I'm not sure how well that would scale to a non-specific number of images (ie 0 - 10).
I have no fixed specifications for displaying/adding these images so if you have other ideas/ways of doing it then please suggest - the above is just what I imagine would be 'nice' - if it involves way too much coding then it's not worth it at this stage.
Any help / pointers would be most appreciated :) Let me know if you need more info.
I am building an application for my marketing dept. that will track their mailouts. So far I can handle it; however, they want a thumbnail displayed of each piece of creative. I can do this if they only wanted to see one record at a time, but they want all records w/in a certain date range and the pic that goes with it. I am currently storing the path to the image so not to gorge my db to explosion.
pic campaign_name start end mail_out #_pieces pic campaign_name start end mail_out #_pieces pic campaign_name start end mail_out #_pieces pic campaign_name start end mail_out #_pieces
where pic is the thumbnail. I have built it with a continuous form so I can display all the records but I am up to change if needed. I have read other posts and they all deal with single forms and the onCurrent event is not really working for me.
I'm not brilliant at using MS Access - can't use the VBA codes or anything like that.
basically, I want to set up a database of photogrpahs where you store thephotograph in Access, and then run a query to search for specific photos, which brings up a form showing the picture.
I seem to be OK at doing all of this so far except I can't get the photo to appear in the form - it just displays a link which you double click on to get to the photo.
I've tried to look up how to sort this on the web but don't understand the way people speak about access :confused:
I notice that this topic has been done to death.....I have a database that is embedding the pictures and the predictable problems has manifested...the database is swelling up....
I'm learning to adapt the database to include the file location in the form and have the picture box refer to the file location, rather then embedding the picture into it....the problem that I have is that although I know how to do it because I get it.....this database will be run by a number of people, many of which don't have much experience and it must be simple to input the file location. Is there a way to simplify putting the file location in the text box aside from typing it in manually (a search window; like the one that appears when trying to open a file or insert an object, perhaps)....
