Hello. Since this is my first post, I'll write some background first. I am deeply interested in machine embroidery, as well as general sewing. I therefore have accumulated a library of magazines with some excellent articles. The problem is finding the right article when I want to re-read it.
I bought the Getting Started Guide and Base Handbook, and by constantly referring back to them, managed to get an embedded database, in which details of the article were accompanied by an image. You know what comes next. All was well until I had just over 200 entries - at which time it crashed and I lost all entries. Fortunately I had a backup up to the previous day's work, as well as an almost complete spreadsheet which had been the basis for my efforts, but there was no point in trying to do more, as all reading pointed to the problem of images causing the size to over-expand. I have now tried to create a split database, following the instructions I found online. However, I'm finding it difficult to source information on using it. Picked from the bits and pieces I've accumulated, instead of adding the image directly, I have created a text field containing a URL relative to the data folder, e.g. ../Images/OnionsAndRust.jpg. What I would like to achieve is that URL to be read in, the image displayed, then dropped when the record changes. Is this a reasonable approach? Can you point me to documentation that will help? I suspect that I need to learn to write macros for this to work, but again, providing I can find help to get started I am ready to learn. AnneW -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted