Hi Jack,
Did you ever find a solution to your issue?
I could use some ideas when it comes to inporting geodatabase attachments in ArcGIS Reports. I have an SDE feature class with attachments enabled (photos taken out in the field), and I'd like to bring these pictures into our ArcGIS reports. It sounds easy enough to do in HELP, all 2 sentences:
“ If you are generating a report on Geodatabase data with Attachments enabled, you can add a RelatedReport control to access the attachment table and use attached images from the Blob field as the source for your picture element.
Tip: When using attachments, a definition query that filters the attachments by file types will be applied by default. The query is this: "Content_Type LIKE 'image/%'. If this query is removed, all attachment files will be used when generating the report, but only images will be displayed.”
So after adding the attachment table to the MXD they are using for the report and relating it to the inspections point feature class, I added a RelatedReport control into the report (a box to hold the image) -- that’s all good. But when I go to choose my data source for that RelatedReport image element, the blob field (called “DATA” by default when the attachment table is created) is not in the drop down list of available fields. Every other field in the attachment table IS in the dropdown list, but not the blob field….. I can type in the name of the blob field, but nothing happens. If I use any of the other available fields, I get the content of that field displayed in my report, but none of those are the image
What I’m missing????????? I’m so close, and yet so far away………
Thanks much!
Lisa McAleer