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Can you attach a photo to a record?

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Former Member $organization

Our Development department would like to know if there is anyone out there that has been able to attach an photo to an individual constituents record. We were wondering what the size requirements are as well as is there a type of format that works better, jpg vs. gif.


Also, where in the record were you storing this picture. Someone here wants to attach the picture to our custom header, but we all thought the picture would be too small, if it would even be possible.


Thanks for your imput!

Kathryn

  • $organization

    Hi Kathryn,

    This is indeed possible and I'm sure there are many different ways of going about doing this.
    We use a computed expression in infomaker which points to a file that holds our patron bitmap photos which are named after the constituent ID number.
    So our computed expression in infomaker would be

    bitmap("Pathway to the file that holds the photos, keep the quotation marks"+customer_no+".bmp")

    The mesurements we use in infomaker for the photos are, Width 229 and Hight 252.
    The actual properties for the .bmp photos we use are, Width 150 pixels and Hight 196.
    It's been awhile since I set these up so I hope I'm not forgetting anything super important.

    Cheers!

    edit. This is for use in the header.



    [edited by: Ryan Rowell at 7:00 PM (GMT -6) on 21 Jul 2009]
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    Former Member $organization

    Hi Kathryn, I've been doing a lot of this recently as part of our prospect research.  We attach photos in the "Documents" section of the Research tab in an individual's constituent record.  I think I just save pics as jpegs on my hard drive and then I attach it like you would attach a file to an email.  You could also upload other documents there as well that might pertain to the constituent.  I'm not sure about size requirements, but I've been able to attach any photo I've come across on the web.  The header is an interesting idea, but I too don't know if it's possible.  Hope this helps!

     

  • $organization
    That is something we are looking into as well. but we have yet to accomplish adding photos to our records. Our goal is to have the photo appear in the header. I think we are working on how this will work for us.

    I do know that you can attach documents to the records.I believe you can do that in the "Research" Tab. You may be able to save the photo there. If not, you should be able to insert the photo into a word document and possibly save it that way. Then the photo can be the size of the page.

    Hope that helps.

    -Marie Kocher
    Development Assistant
    Kansas City Ballet
    1616 Broadway
    KC, MO 64108
    816-931-2232 x1310
    mkocher@kcballet.org
    www.kcballet.org


    -----Original Message-----
    From: Tessitura Development Forum on behalf of Kathryn Schuh
    Sent: Tue 7/21/2009 6:42 PM
    To: Marie Kocher
    Subject: [Tessitura Development Forum] Can you attach a photo to a record?

    Our Development department would like to know if there is anyone out there that has been able to attach an photo to an individual constituents record. We were wondering what the size requirements are as well as is there a type of format that works better, jpg vs. gif.


    Also, where in the record were you storing this picture. Someone here wants to attach the picture to our custom header, but we all thought the picture would be too small, if it would even be possible.


    Thanks for your imput!

    Kathryn




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  • $organization in reply to Ryan Rowell
    Ryan,
    in your version they show up on the constituent's header?
     
    we also attach files in the research tab but not many people end up "finding" those ....
     
    Monika
     
    Monika Jouvert
    Brooklyn Academy of Music
    Development Business Process Director
    718.623.7810 x6 / internally x4253
     

    From: Tessitura Development Forum [mailto:forums-development@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Rowell
    Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 8:02 PM
    To: Monika Jouvert
    Subject: Re: [Tessitura Development Forum] Can you attach a photo to a record?

    Hi Kathryn,
    This is indeed possible and I'm sure there are many different ways of going about doing this.
    We use a computed expression in infomaker which points to a file that holds our patron bitmap photos which are named after the constituent ID number.
    So our computed expression in infomaker would be

    bitmap("Pathway to the file that holds the photos, keep the quotation marks"+customer_no+".bmp")

    The mesurements we use in infomaker for the photos are, Width 229 and Hight 252.
    The actual properties for the .bmp photos we use are, Width 150 pixels and Hight 196.
    It's been awhile since I set these up so I hope I'm not forgetting anything super important.

    Cheers!

    From: Kathryn Schuh <bounce-kathrynschuh7163@tessituranetwork.com>
    Sent: 7/21/2009 6:37:58 PM

    Our Development department would like to know if there is anyone out there that has been able to attach an photo to an individual constituents record. We were wondering what the size requirements are as well as is there a type of format that works better, jpg vs. gif.


    Also, where in the record were you storing this picture. Someone here wants to attach the picture to our custom header, but we all thought the picture would be too small, if it would even be possible.


    Thanks for your imput!

    Kathryn




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  • $organization in reply to Monika Jouvert (Past Member)

    Correct, I forgot to specify that but I tossed in an edit at the bottom of the post to clarify.

  • $organization in reply to Ryan Rowell

    Thanks for the info, Ryan. The dimensions were especially helpful. Anyone know if it's possible to display a BLOB in the header? If so, how?