Images in fields

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This may have already been dealt with so a pointer would be great.

Last year we ran a Cadet week for over 160 cadets - as part of the regatta we allocated each cadet to a country (the theme was Olympic Countries) - so that every cadet contributed I was abe to use the Nationality field (and associated Flag) to do this - points were awarded to each country based on results.

This year the theme is different but i want to be able to do the same thing - is there a way for Sailwave to hold an image (in this case a logo) - the cadets are split into 10 teams therefore 10 logos. I want the logo to appear in much the same way the Nationality Flags did.

Many thanks

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When you edit a column there is a (little used) format tab. This allows you to embed the field (and any other fields) when publishing in HTML. See the hover text for syntax. So, if you have a field that contains the same string as the image filename (primary part) you can add a format that will link to the images.

Field names are here:-

http://www.sailwave.com/field-names

So for exmaple say you upload all your images to http://myurl.com/logos

and one of the filenames is xyzzy.jpg and the Group field (say) contains xyzzy, you can format the group field to display the image using a format of:-

<img src="http://myurl/logos/*.jpg

">

If you wanted the helm name to be the hover text for the image you could use a format of:-

<img title="HelmName" src="http://myurl/logos/*.jpg

">

Etc.

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On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:58 AM, richard.pink2@btinternet.com pinkrichard@hotmail.com wrote:

This may have already been dealt with so a pointer would be great.

Last year we ran a Cadet week for over 160 cadets - as part of the regatta we allocated each cadet to a country (the theme was Olympic Countries) - so that every cadet contributed I was abe to use the Nationality field (and associated Flag) to do this - points were awarded to each country based on results.

This year the theme is different but i want to be able to do the same thing - is there a way for Sailwave to hold an image (in this case a logo) - the cadets are split into 10 teams therefore 10 logos. I want the logo to appear in much the same way the Nationality Flags did.

Many thanks

3

Thanks for this

I have not had chance to play around with this yet but can I confirm that this method will allow me to have an image stored in a field (I am suggesting NAT) for a competitor/entry? In other words NAT hyperlinks to a given image based on which team they are in

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From: sailwave@yahoogroups.com [mailto:sailwave@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Colin Jenkins
Sent: 10 May 2013 12:11
To: Sailwave User Group
Subject: Re: [sailwave] Images in fields

When you edit a column there is a (little used) format tab. This allows you to embed the field (and any other fields) when publishing in HTML. See the hover text for syntax. So, if you have a field that contains the same string as the image filename (primary part) you can add a format that will link to the images.

Field names are here:-

http://www.sailwave.com/field-names

So for exmaple say you upload all your images to http://myurl.com/logos

and one of the filenames is xyzzy.jpg and the Group field (say) contains xyzzy, you can format the group field to display the image using a format of:-

<img src="http://myurl/logos/*.jpg

">

If you wanted the helm name to be the hover text for the image you could use a format of:-

<img title="HelmName" src="http://myurl/logos/*.jpg

">

Etc.

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:58 AM, richard.pink2@btinternet.com pinkrichard@hotmail.com wrote:

This may have already been dealt with so a pointer would be great.

Last year we ran a Cadet week for over 160 cadets - as part of the regatta we allocated each cadet to a country (the theme was Olympic Countries) - so that every cadet contributed I was abe to use the Nationality field (and associated Flag) to do this - points were awarded to each country based on results.

This year the theme is different but i want to be able to do the same thing - is there a way for Sailwave to hold an image (in this case a logo) - the cadets are split into 10 teams therefore 10 logos. I want the logo to appear in much the same way the Nationality Flags did.

Many thanks