InfoPath Dev

Has anyone worked on dynamically adding an image to an image control / rich text box control in InfoPath form?

Following are the requirements:

a.       The image data is saved into the database in BLOB format  (electronic signatures)

b.      No physical file should be created / saved onto the machine

Any pointers to this issue would be of great help.

Hi --

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by dynamically adding an image -- but the sample here demonstrates how to copy an attachment out of a form to store elsewhere (this example uses SharePoint) and this link from Microsoft explains how to encode / decode base64 (which is what images and file attachements are stored as in an IP form).

Hope that helps!

I think I am tying to accomplish the same thing.  Let me see if I can explain it in more detail.

I have some decent experience with Access, SQL Server, VB6/VB.NET, ASP.NET but am new to IP.  What I would like to do is have a form that the user can fill out with your typical data entry points as well as Photos and Digital Ink (sketches and maybe signatures) created using a Tablet PC.  I see IP 2003 has controls for this but what I cant quite figure out is if the data entered in these controls can be stored completely in an Access Database.

 If I create, for example, a Ink Picture Control on the form, IP will create its own internal data field for it which I assume is stored in some internal XML file.  But if I try to point it at an Access Table BLOB field, it gives me an error saying that it has to be pointed at a non-repeating field with a picture data type.  The same can be said about using a File Attachement Control.

 Does this mean that InfoPath will NOT work with an Access BLOB field?

 Thanks

Ernie