How to add pics to web forms?

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Goal:Web based form containing fields for text and fields for images. Users are able to use a file browser to navigate to images they have on their PCs (or network shares) and insert a selected image into a specific field. When viewed in either Notes or a browser, the image is displayed. I’m assuming that each image field will have it’s own ‘insert/import’ wiget.

RT Lite doesn’t seem to handle jpg/gif/bmp on the web.

I’ve spent an hour or so searching for ‘insert, import, richtextlite, richtext lite, image, web, pictures’ and several other combinations; no joy. The closest I’ve gotten is code to insert the image file into a field but the image is not displayed, only an icon.

Tips, pointers, or links to relevant posts would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Doug

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Subject: How to add pics to web forms?

Use File Upload control to add pictures on web form

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Subject: Doesn’t do what I want

The file upload inserts the file as an attachment so all you see is the icon. It also doesn’t allow you to define where the file goes so even if I was happy with just seeing an attachment icon, I couldn’t specify ‘file a into field a, file b into field b’.

If I missed something, let me know.

Thanks for the post.

Doug

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Subject: RE: Doesn’t do what I want

A web query save agent can move the attachment to the field you want.

You can reference the attachment as part of HTML IMG SRC= so that the image can be displayed using the $file notation of domino attachments.

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Subject: RE: Doesn’t do what I want

The upload would just be phase one. You would then need to detach and import the picture in order for it to work the same way as a pasted/imported image created through the Notes client. I’d suggest using DXL to do the job, except that it seems to be restricted as far as the file types it supports. There’s always Midas, and I know of a couple of other image import utilities out there. And if you’re comfortable with the C API…

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Subject: RE: Doesn’t do what I want

LOL, what is this ‘C API’ of which you speak???

Can you say ‘outside my comfort zone’?

Actually, this sounds like it could be fun to play with. Unfortunately, this particular project is not business critical so I’m probably going to have to bypass this for right now.

I’ll bookmark this thread and try again later. The good news is that most of our users have the client so I can stick with the easy stuff for now and re-address the more fun stuff later.

Thank you all for the replies - very much appreciated.

Doug