Problems on Importing photos to ArcMap by photo layers tool

[ChiWaiHung]

Hi,

I tried to import the photos with geotag from ArcPad to ArcMap by photo layer tool. When the shapefile generated by the tool are read by ArcPad, the hyperlink to the photo works well. However, when I try to read the attribute table of that shapefile in ArcMap, it only shows the name of the picture file, instead of the path to the photos.  Can anyone solve this problem?

http://imgur.com/e4ix5

It works well on ArcPad

http://imgur.com/v7RSx

It does not work on ArcMap

[HannahFerrier]

Hello!

ArcPad Photo Layers (and shapefiles made from Photo Layers) are not designed to include the folder location of the photos.

However, ArcPad will do this when you are taking photos attached to features. When you are using the Data Manager to check out your feature layer, be sure to configure you photo folder location on the Picture Options page.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]20566[/ATTACH]

This way, when you check your data back in, the full folder path will be included in the specified Photo Field to work as a hyperlink in ArcGIS Desktop.

If this function is really important to your workflow, consider creating a point layer with a photo field to capture your pictures using the ArcPad Data Manager to check in and out of ArcGIS Desktop instead of an ArcPad Photo Layer.

Hope this helps,

Hannah