Thumbnail Storing & Displaying

Jason:

With DW5 and Universal Email I'm resizing and storing Thumbnail image files well. However, UE is not storing any reference to those Thumbnails in the DB. If there's no reference in the DB I cannot display the Thumbnails along with their corresponding rest of the data.

How do I go about displaying those stored Thumbnails? Any suggestions? Thanks.

Hi,

When you add an upload and resize behaviour to a form it creates a number of bindings for the file upload.

If you use the resize feature of the upload behaviour then it creates additional bindings for the newly created file.

What you need to do is have a field in your database table that stores the filename of the resized file and when using the insert behaviour select the "ServerFileName" binding for the resized file.

Hope that helps?

Cheers
Ian

to add to what Ian is saying, you need to use Data Assist insert record behavior to store the file names.

In the data assist insert record behavior, select the database column that you will use for storing the file name, click the lightning bolt icon and select the server file name binding from the bindings panel.

Hi:

Please check out the attached ScreenShot. Is this what you mean? This is not giving me the option to enter the DB column name.

Please note that the difficulty is with Thumbnails. I don't have any problem storing and displaying regular image files.

Thank you.

Scroll down that list further and you will see another binding for server file name prefixed with "File Filed Name (\Thumbs)"

Jason:

Please check this other ScreenShot. Wouldn't this be what you mean?

No, your highlighting the same item in that screen shot as in the first screen shot

Scroll down that list further and you will see another binding for server file name prefixed with "File Filed Name (\Thumbs)"

Jason:

Ok. I think I got it. Please check out this other Screenshot. The Lightening Bolt doesn't show in the shot, but it's to the left of the highlighted line.

Please let me know.

Jason:

No problem. I entered a new profile and double checked it. The Thumbnail reference is stored in the DB. Great.

Now it's just a matter of displaying those. I guess I'll just use the same extension I use for displaying the regular photos, which is working well.

Many thanks to you and to Ian as well.

you're welcome.