Dynamically change Jpeg Picture

[demoman]

I am creating a monthly report we send to our customers. I would like to add their logo to the page header. The report runs in batch mode (spits out one report per customer). Is there a way to change the picture during runtime? or, am I stuck with storing the image as a BLOB? If given a choice, I would prefer to just change the file path/name.

Thanks

 

[jdemmi]

This is rather ugly (really ugly if you have TONS of images) but should work.

Add (import) all of the logos into the report and supress them based on the customer name

Example: "Logo A" would be CONDITIONALLY supressed where customer_name <> "Customer A".

-- Jason
"It's Just Ones and Zeros

 

[kenhamady]

If you have version 11 you can do this directly based on the path. In older versions you don't have many options. There is also CviewImage which has a DLL that allows this in older versions.

http://www.chelseatech.co.nz/ctprod.htm#cViewIMAGE

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[jdemmi]

You also may be able to extend my originally thought (conditional supression) with this

http://www.businessobjects.com/products/reporting/crystalreports/formatting.asp

Seems like you could create a formula that said something like:

if customer = "A" then image_location1
else if customer = "B" then image_location2
etc
etc

-- Jason
"It's Just Ones and Zeros