Programmable/Conditional Headers/Footer in Report

Hi,

I am generating offer letters for one of three companies , assume the record exists like below , how to make make header image file dynamic 

Company Name | Candidate Name | Company_header
Firkee|Peter|C:\header\firkee.jpg
ETL-tools.com|John\C:\header\etl-tool.jpg

I
 

OK , I played with Chatgpt slightly and I was able to get the following solution where information is hardcoded at least , now we need to figure out how to load this from a. column value 

procedure HeaderBandOnBeforePrint(Sender: TfrxComponent); begin   if <ADOQUERY."join_company"> = 'Firkee Accessos' then                 Picture1.Picture.LoadFromFile('C:\Users\Superadmin\Downloads\header_firkee_accessories.jpg')   else   Picture1.Picture.LoadfromFile('C:\Users\Superadmin\Downloads\footer_firkee_accessories.jpg')                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   end;

begin end.

 

The easiest way to print picture dynamically is to use filelink

Here is an example

 

PS I understand you struggle, the report documentation is not comprehensive enough 

PS I understand you struggle, the report documentation is not comprehensive enough 

Thank you for the trick !

It's just so this(FastReport) is complex without example it's even more difficult to comprehend what can be done.

Thank you again for posting answer

Peter.Jonson wrote:

The easiest way to print picture dynamically is to use filelink
 

We were able to use the logo variable to dynamically insert the files. Once we roll this properly across, I will make a video to showcase this.

FILELINK works only in pictures file or at other areas also ? if yes examples if any

FILELINK works only in pictures file or at other areas also ? if yes examples if any

What are other areas?