Limiting choice in imagefield

[Former Community Member]

Hello, I´m new to Livecycle Designer and I´m stuck with the following problem:

Our form is finished; it contains several imagefields. The users should be able to change graphics in the form, but they mustn´t be able to use any image they like. How do I limit the number of choices they have?

The form will either be put on the harddisk server in our firm or it will be put onto the internet.

What´s the easiest way?

Thanks in advance, Christiane

[Niall_O_Donovan]

Hi Christiane,

AFAIK, you can't limit the imagefield in that way. When the user clicks the imagefield, Acrobat/Reader opens a file browser and from there the user can browse to and select any image they want.

There is a script solution on the forums to limit the size of the image, but that is about all you can do.

Good luck,

Niall 

[Former Community Member]

Hello Niall,

do you think there is a way to navigate our users to a specific folder they can pick the images from?

Or maybe we could have some kind of database on a web server?

[Niall_O_Donovan]

Hi,

I haven't tried it, but you should be able to set up a data connection to a database.

Have a look at Stefan Cameron's blog here: http://forms.stefcameron.com/ and also do a Google search on this forum for imagefields, as I know that this has been discussed before. You will need to convert the images to Base 64 format for the image field.

Good luck,

Niall

[Former Community Member]

Thanks Niall, that must be the way to do it.

I´ll see what I can find out about the Base 64 format, right now it sounds a bit complicated to me...

Hope I can solve it. Greetings to you.

Maybe there is someone who has set up such a database and would explain the first steps to me?