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MobileMe-MyGallery layout type INVENTORY
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I have been testing FileMaker Pro 11 for the past 2 days. I have been able to create an inventory customized to my need (a Japanese Antique shop), using the inventory template. It works fine for that purpose, as you can see on the screenshot below.
But it is only half of what I really need!
Do you know the “My Gallery” solution from MobileMe and available on Windows, and on iPhone?
I need something like that: being able to consult my inventory from an image Gallery, with one icon image for each inventory item. Clicking on one image would then show other images from the same object, then all the inventory data for that object. Would it be possible?
Would it be possible to get help to create such a template?
I have Windows-PC, an iPhone 3GS and will get the iPad2 this month.
Thank you for any help !
It can be done, but you may want to define a separate table of images if you want to support multiple images of the same item. First thing to decide is if you have one picture for multiple items in inventory or whether each item in inventory will have its own picture. Since this is an antique shop, I will assume that any picture taken depicts a specific item in inventory.
If you have this relationship: (I'm using this approach because your screen shot above shows multiple images of the same item.)
Inventory::K_ID_Record = Images::K_ID_Record
You can set up a list view of records on a layout based on Images. The container field on this layout can be set up as a button so that clicking it triggers a script that either changes to the inventory layout and uses the value of Images::K_ID_Record in a find to find the matching Inventory record or the button can use Go To Related record to find the inventory record and display it on an Inventory based layout.
If you want multiple columns of images to scroll through, you can do that also, but it will take more design work to get the images into multiple columns instead of a single list of images.