Display images in Crystal Report

[shobia]

Hi,
I need help in loading images in Crystal Report.
I would like to display images(.jpg) during run time.
I want to display the person details and display the person's image on the right.
My images will be stored in a temporary directory.
I would pass the path to crystal report like (C:\PrsnImgs\PersonA.jpg).

My query output would be something like

Name Address Path Descrptn
Jake West Blvd C:\PrsnImgs\Jake.jpg Tall&Strong

For example my report would be displayed like below.
Jake West Blvd Actual Picture(Jake.jpg)
Tall & Strong
Person B Street Address PersonB.jpg(Picture)
Description of the Person

Person C Street Address PersonC.jpg(Picture)
Description of the Person

How do i accomplish this?. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Shobia

 

[dgillz]

What version of Crystal?

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[shobia]

It is CR 8.5. I am Sorry for not mentioning it.
Thanks
Shobia

 

[dgillz]

You cannot do this in crystal 8.5 unless the image itself is stored in the datbase, unless you use the RDC - Report Designer Component - in Visual Basic.

To get the image from a path, you will need to upgrade to Crystal XI.

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[synapsevampire]

I think that you can sort of handle this by right clicking the field in Crystal and selecting Format Field->Hyperlink->A File.

It won't show the graphic, but they shouldbe able to click it and open the grphic file.

Unless CR 8.5 didn't support hyperlinks.

-k

 

[shobia]

dgillz- How do i do it if the image is stored in the database?.To start with the images are stored in the database. But before i run a report i get all those images and store them in a temp directory which is done thru ColdFusion.(Kind of Preparing the report) Could you please explain the process, if i am planning to get it directly from the database thru CR.
Thanks

synapsevampire - This solution won't help , since we print the reports out and discuss in a meeting later on.
And there could be 100s of rows to view each image.
Thanks.

 

[shobia]

I guess i would not be able to do this. Thanks.