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Zoom in on container field images

We were recently working on a project where a container field contained a detailed image and thought it would be useful if the user could zoom in on some areas.

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CloudContainer Alpha Sign-Up: Store container data in S3 with enhanced interactive container functionality

Hello Everyone,

We’re working on a new product we’re calling CloudContainer which is an alternative to native FileMaker container fields.

This product provides two main new advantages over regular container fields:

• File storage in Amazon S3 instead of on your server
• New interactive container functionality, such as image editing/markup and embedding Office documents right in your FileMaker layouts.

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Bring your additional questions about digital document Management and we will break them down for you and get you some answers.

Image features are pretty common within FileMaker apps.

We've had the ability to store images and other types of files in container fields for quite a while.

Usually, we leverage that capability to build image modules for our clients.

Having developed several of these myself, I can tell you that users generally want to be able to do at least three things:

Save the images in FileMaker
View a thumbnail of the image
Customize the size of the image

We (Beezwax) recently built an application that included PDF document management.

While it might seem as simple as a quick FileMaker container field, we wanted to impress our client with an integrated solution on par with a content management system (CMS).

Here’s how we built a powerful PDF viewer directly into FileMaker.

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This “Tampered” error happens when an externally stored container image in FileMaker is altered by another application or operation outside out the FileMaker.

For example, you might go into the directory and resize the image.

It’s not entirely intuitive how you might get the image back.

Here’s the solution ...

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FileMaker Go 14 - how to markup and annotate PDFs files in Containers
Uses free to use TinyPDF

Remote containers make for smart and efficient document management.

Learn how to set up remote containers properly and start using them today!

There is a little FileMaker hack you can do to make your slide control seem like it has an endless amount of containers.

Thanks to Matt Petrowsky, from ISO FileMaker Magazine, for building a demo file called Endless Picture Sliders that allows you to have endless containers in a slide panel.

http://rcconsulting.com/downloads/end...

Edit container field and external images directly in FileMaker.

Often container images within FileMaker need to be cropped, adjusted, rotated, colored, etc.

In the past, the only way to deal accomplish this was to copy the container to the clipboard and open in an app (like Adobe PhotoShop, Affinity Photo, or Lemkesoft GraphicConverter), edit the image, and then export as a file or copy paste the image back into FileMaker.

Brilliant Image Editor (BIE) provides image editing capabilities directly within FileMaker.

When BIE is called, it displays a full size image editor within a card window above the existing layout.

After editing, the user can save the image back into FileMaker immediately.

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Drag & drop media files on a portal with clever functionality.

Containers made easy!

Everything you need when dealing with media files in your database:
• A nice, big dropzone to add media.
• A portal to display thumbnails, file names, and file size.
• Buttons for preview, download and delete
• A table with a complete set of calculated fields to extract useful data from your container;

Make a rounded photo in FileMaker using a Slide Control and a Container field.

Part 1 will cover the basics of container fields, storage of the container, performance considerations, setting containers to be interactive or non-interactive, and how it is backed up on FileMaker Server and FileMaker Cloud.

Your FileMaker data file has reached 9 GB!

You’re storing lots of large images and documents in container fields and it’s getting harder to backup and restore. 
You’re also risking database corruption in transferring such a large file. What’s the best way to fix this?

You can use externally stored container fields.

That solves part of the problem of getting the actual file out of the main database file…but it is still time consuming to backup and transfer.

Dans nos solutions FileMaker, en général du moins, nous ne soucions pas particulièrement de la taille des données textuelles, en revanche, nous accordons un intérêt certain pour la taille des données « multimédia » à intégrer dans les bases de données au sein des rubriques de type conteneur ou même directement placées sur les modèles.

Les fichiers Pdf que nous pouvons générer à partir de FileMaker occupent une place importante dans cette problématique liée à la taille des données, notamment sur les solutions « métier », où l’envoi et la sauvegarde des documents administratifs, commerciaux, contractuels, légaux, etc., ont une importance capitale.

Container fields in FileMaker will act different depending on whether they are set with interactive content or not.