Adding Pics to a Access Databae

[Guest]

I am doing a inventory on all my baseball cards and i am trying to add a
scaned copy of the front and back of each baseball card to my database but
when i go into design view and add a image it only allows that one image. If
anyone could give me some pointers that would be great. The best email
address to get me at is: (e-mail address removed)

Thanks
Shane

 

[Ed Warren]

Don't put pictures in the database. Put them in a folder, then use a
hyperlink field in the database to link to them, that way you can have the
front, and back and the database file will not bloat it's self out the
window.

Ed Warren.

 

[Guest]

Shane,

It's not advisable to store your pictures within the database as it can
cause massive 'bloating'. Instead, store your scans in a folder on your PC
(or network) and create a link to the scans from your form.

If you're not sure how to do this, check out the Access paes at my website,
www.nwarwick.co.uk, where there's a walkthrough and a sample downloadable
database you can utilise.

HTH

Neil
www.nwarwick.co.uk

 

[Larry Linson]

I am doing a inventory on all my baseball cards and i am trying to add a
scaned copy of the front and back of each baseball card to my database but
when i go into design view and add a image it only allows that one image. If
anyone could give me some pointers that would be great. The best email
address to get me at is: (e-mail address removed)

The sample imaging databases at http://accdevel.tripod.com illustrate three
approaches to handling images in Access, and the download includes an
article discussing considerations in choosing an approach. Two of the
approaches do not use OLE Objects and, thus, avoid the database bloat, and
some other problems, associated with images in OLE Objects.

If you are printing the images in reports, to avoid memory leakage, you
should also see MVP Stephen Lebans' http://www.lebans.com/printfailures.htm.
PrintFailure.zip is an Access97 MDB containing a report that fails during
the Access formatting process prior to being spooled to the Printer Driver.
This MDB also contains code showing how to convert the contents of the Image
control to a Bitmap file prior to printing. This helps alleviate the "Out of
Memory" error that can popup when printing image intensive reports.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP