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bugleboy
12-27-2006, 07:49 AM
Howdy all!

My database has an embedded thumbnail image for each record, and I'm trying to figure out a way to click something on each record to view the enlarged original image (linked, not embedded) in a separate viewer window.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
bugleboy

bugleboy
12-27-2006, 09:03 AM
OK, I figured it out (I think!).

I already had a text field that showed the path to the original picture that I wanted to display with an onClick event. I changed the property of the text field to Is Hyperlink = Yes. When that didn't work, I read the Help file on hyperlinks and discovered I needed to format the text string with asterisks as follows:
Click here for full image#\\Remington\projects\Current Projects\Fluor\Machine Guarding\2006_12_1\Original\IMG_0005.jpg##

Voila! Now when I click in the text box with the hyperlink, the original picture is displayed in a new IE window. A minor inconvenience is that I have to close the browser after each picture is opened as it keeps opening a new browser window for each picture.

I think I can live with that!