Images in OLE do not appear in form or report, description only.

[Guest]

I created a data sheet with OLE (linked to some Photoshop JPG images) in one
field. I then created a form clicking "Auto Form" to see picture images in
the form. But only "description" of the images (i.e. JPG file name) appears
and not images themselves. Wny?

 

[Guest]

Do you want to embed the pictures or link them

If you link -
You don't link the OLE - you link a text field in the table and then
reference this from the OLE.

If you embed
You place the path in the OLE field in the table

 

[Guest]

Wayne, thank you for your reply.
As a new user of Access (the version I am using is 2003), I'm afraid that I
need to ask you to give me a long-hand explanation. Can I explain what I did
so that you could point out my mistakes or missing actions, etc.?

My purpose was to link pictures. In a "datasheet view" table, I linked some
pictures to the relevant fields (by inserting Objects - this click-opened "MS
Access window" where I chose "Adobe Photoshop Image" as "Object Type" and
"linked" the pictures). Then by using "Auto Form" I created forms based on
the data in the table. In the created forms, however, no pictrures were
shown, only the descriptions of pictures, e.g. "abc. jpg". (When I
double-clicked inside the frames of the pictures where their descriptions
appeared, the pictures were displayed by some graphics software.)

Also I tried to DESELECT "link" in "MS Access window" (as described aboev)
so that copies of the source pictures would be embedeed in the datasheet.
But the situation in the created forms was the same, i.e. no pictures, only
the picture descriptions.

I would greatly appreciate your advice. Thank you in advance.

Angeljph12