Image in report

Hi,

I have a report which I am trying to insert an image.
Sometimes there is an image to be loaded or sometimes the cursor driving the report does not have an image to load

Now this works OK when there is an image, but when the there is no image it fails
In the report control I have tried variations of the below code in the control source (Set to expression/variable)

iif(empty(cReport.Image1file),"",cReport.Image1file)

For some reason the control MUST have an image to load otherwise there is an error
I could go down the road of having a dummy jpg file, but I would rather not, unless there is another way

 

[Dan Freeman]

Go the empty.jpg route. Image controls need an image.

 

[Mike Lewis]

I agree with Dan. Creating an empty file is the easiest solution. Make it the same background colour as the report background (probably white). Place its filename in your cReport.Image1file field when no other image is available.

Mike

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[AlastairOz]

Hi Mike,

I got around it fairly simply without creating a dummy file
in the report I entered into the "Print When" tab, "Print only when expression is true" section this code

!empty(creport2.Image2)

That works