Specifications

92 Using Databases with ID Works Projects
ID Works Basic Version 5 Administrator’s Guide
Use caution when changing between Use ID Works Path and Select
Path or using the System Paths utility in ID Works Administrator to
change the ID Works path after you have begun capturing images.
Changing any of these settings may cause the software to not find
previously-captured images.
You can also specify a Production Form field to use as the file name.
Specifying a Production Form field may help you find files when using
another application. For example, if you specify that the Employee
Number field be used as the file name for a photo, the image for the
person whose employee number is 12345 would have the file name
12345.jpg. If you have multiple photo fields on the Production Form,
you can use a composite field to differentiate the photos. For
example, you could create a composite field that combines the
employee number field with the constant string “left” and specify that
composite field as the Field to Use as File Name for the left profile
photo. See “Composite Field” on page 55 and the online help topic
“Add a composite field to a Production Form” for more information.
If you do not specify a Production Form field to use as the file name or
if you specify a field that does not yield a unique file name, the
software will construct a unique file name.
If the field used to name the file is empty, the file name will be created
as if no field name was selected. To prevent this, mark fields used to
name photos as Mandatory and do not use fields connected to
AutoNumber database columns. See “Field Options” on page 63 and
the online help topic “Set field options” for more information. To use a
unique number for the file name, consider using the ID Works auto
sequence field instead of a database-generated value. See “Auto
Sequence Field” on page 59.