2007/2010 Images in Continous Forms 2

[MajP]

This keeps on being asked on this site, and many people (including myself) appear to not be aware of this new capability in 2007/2010.

Access 2007 introduced the ability to render in a continous form images stored in external folders. The image control now has a control source field, which can be a field that holds the path to an image. So now without any code you can display images in a continous form based on a path.

Prior to 2007 there was no way using a bound continous form to show images stored in a folder. The only solution was to store the images in the database which would bloat the database. Fortunately 2007 greatly reduced the bloat by the way images are stored in OLE fields and also added an attachment field which eliminates any bloat since they are stored external to the db.

This "bound" image countrol is a pretty major enhancement, but strangely I have had a hard time finding much mention of this.

 

[dhookom]

MajP,
Thanks for taking the time to post this new feature of 2007 and later.

Duane
Hook'D on Access
MS Access MVP

 

[MajP]

Duane,
As you are aware, I got humbled on this because I swore it could not be done and was proved wrong.

 

[SkipVought]

Thanx for the info!

Skip,
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