Pictures in methods

The logic makes sense I guess. I kinda wish they wouldn't protect me from
myself and let me figure that out.



I've been digging to google results this morning and it doesn't seem too
many people want to embed "dynamic" pdfs into a crystal that are pulled from
a location held in a field.







~Charlie

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From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Gerry Loranger
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 8:21 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re: Pictures in methods





I checked into this. Link a doc, pdf etc and Crystal runs a process that
creates an image and embeds it into the report. You'll notice that when you
link to a large PDF or Doc, Crystal seems to hang for a bit? The image
creation process can take quite some time, depending on the size of the PDF,
Doc etc. If Crystal allowed PDFs and Docs to be linked to files, this image
creation process might have to run on numerous records - resulting in a
major crashing issue.

Perhaps, there is a way to script Crystal and override this safety
feature... but that would be far too ambitious to attempt on a Friday.

Gerry

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[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> .com] On
Behalf Of
Charlie Wilson
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 6:30 AM
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Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re: Pictures in methods

We ultimately want them on the job traveler. The engineer that asked for
this may be willing to deal with the limitation of it needing to be a
JPG/BPM/TIF file. Rebuilding the job traveler as a dashboard doesn't sound
like a lot of fun.

He can just scan what ever he want to jpg and attach it that way.

~Charlie

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Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re: Pictures in methods

Charlie,

Can this report be done in a dashboard instead? I have gotten dynamic
url linking to work in dashboards before using file paths from a user
defined field in a table or what have you. The image (.pdf, .jpg etc)
displays on a tab/sheet. You could print it from there.

Rob Bucek

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Of Charlie Wilson
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Didn't really get me anywhere.

~Charlie

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Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re: Pictures in methods

> Then on your Crystal report, Insert > OLE Object > Create
> from File. Select any image and click OK.

Sounds like it's embedding the OLE object. What happens if you click the
"Link" checkbox at this step?

Mark W.

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