More details on the GetThumbnail function are here on FileMaker’s Help pages. I thought I would share my demo with the FileMaker world because it is such a great feature and having a demo file can sometimes speed adoption of a technique. My client was interested in being able to store large files in their image assets database and have anyone on staff be able to export a smaller version for the web or print without having to fire up Photoshop. The obvious benefit was to keep the database file size down and the image size consistent in the container field. DB Services’ approach was to resize the file as it was being imported, employing an auto-enter calculation. I read an article by DB Services on using the GetThumbnail function in FileMaker to resize images in a container field. Each FileMaker Pro database file contains information about the file’s structure, like fields and their definitions, passwords and access privileges, calculations, layouts, and scripts. A table consists of records and fields, which store and display your data. FileMaker Pro 12 has its share of amazing marquee features, (Insert from URL, ExecuteSQL etc), but the humble GetThumbnail function didn’t cross my radar screen until recently. A FileMaker Pro database is a file or files made up of one or more tables. To begin using data files in FileMaker Pro Advanced, you must create a data file using the Create Data File script step. Sometimes it is the little things in an upgrade that take a while to percolate through to real world applications.
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