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I have had a few emails and the forum has been hot lately with questions about sourcing an image from the OA_MEDIA directory. the more popular question is for an RTF template but there are those of you trying to update the purchasing template which is sadly written in XSL-FO and not in RTF format.

RTF Templates

The user guide covers this and its now correct :o! You can either place a dummy image in your template and then in the Web tab of the image properties put in the following:

url:{'${OA_MEDIA}/IMAGE_FILE'}

For example

url:{'${OA_MEDIA}/FNDSSCORP.gif'}

Notice the use of curly braces rather than rounded and the position of quotation marks. Its very important, otherwise you are going to be pulling hair out at a rapid rate. If you have an image name embedded in your XML you can use that too, just need to use the concat command to bind the values together:

url:{concat(${OA_MEDIA},'/',.//IMAGE_NAME'}

the other option is to embed the necessary XSLFO code into a field in the template:

<fo:external-graphic src="url('{'${OA_MEDIA}/FNDSSCORP.gif'}')" />

XSLFO Templates

IF you're updating that PO template and just want your own logo, then you'll find that the PO team have provided a placeholder in their template. Just uncomment it and add in the OA_MEDIA reference

src="url('{'${OA_MEDIA}/fwkhp_folder.gif'}')

Be aware the format is subtly different to the RTF format ... sorry not much we could do there. Just be careful to avoid that hair loss :)