Understanding Image-Related Elements
You find images throughout PeopleSoft applications. Images serve many purposes such as identifying an employee or indicating to a user their current step in a series of steps in a process. PeopleSoft Application Designer offers several image-related elements, each of which you use depending on the purpose of the image. The following table describes the usage of each image-related element and provides an example of it:
Image-Related Feature |
Usage |
Example |
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Image field |
Use to create a field in a database table that stores images in a user-defined format, such as portable network graphic (PNG) or bitmap (BMP). Like all fields, you place image fields in record definitions. |
The EMPLOYEE_PHOTO field is an image field in the EMPLOYEE_PHOTO record definition. |
ImageReference field |
Use to create a field in a derive/work table that temporarily holds an image that can change programmatically at runtime using PeopleCode. Like all fields, you place image fields in record definitions. |
The LOGO field is an image reference field that appears in the TE_HTL_LIST derived work record definition. |
Image definition |
Use to store an image file as a PeopleTools-managed item in the image catalog. |
For example, the spinning image that appears when the system processes user information is the PT_PROCESSING image definition |
Image control |
Use to display image data that is stored in image fields in the database. |
For example, an image control appears on the EMPLOYEE_PHOTO page; this control references the EMPLOYEE_PHOTO record field. |
Static image control |
Use to display a static image that is stored in the image catalog. |
For example, a static image control appears on the COMPANY_CAR page; this control references the CAR_STOCK image in the image catalog. |