has anyone ever managed to get an item’s image onto a sales order and/or invoice record? (not an advanced pdf but the form itself)

Inline html field?

@KevinJ of Kansas how come that seems like a bad idea?

To display item images you would want to put it at line level right? Well that would potentially play with how the lines presented.

Gotcha, I was just curious. Not something that would necessarily work for us, but in the event some one brought it up, I wanted to have an reason as to why I said no 🙂

Kevin is right, there's a lot of little things with that solution. I did this almost 5 years ago and with the size of the inventory library we ended up having to build a custom server on the client site to host the images that also standardized the resolution and dpi for each image. But they wanted this for digital catalogs and website use so it was a smarter solution.

@Erica LaBarre We do this and it works pretty well to display the image on the screen in view mode of the transaction, but you don't see the image in edit mode. We have two transaction line fields, one that's text and one is in line HTML. The text field sources from the item's image path, and the HTML field displays that path as an image.

I'd opt to do a sublist based on a saved search before taking that approach in the interest of not harming load times while viewing the transaction

@KevinJ of Kansas interesting, i'll see how much that helps. We use our low res images on the transaction to cut down on load time and I don't have complaints on load times, but I'm sure it is affected by the images. Load time vs an extra click for users will be the debate, but seems worth checking. Thanks Kevin.

for us it was just some visual confirmation that the user has indeed added the correct item to the sales order as we have many similar items all of which are stored with their unique images (all with the same dimensions and compressed pretty well.) i probably don’t expect the image to appear in real time on adding the line item but rather on page save (although I wouldn’t knock real time back!) i actually recall this being demoed at maybe suiteworld 2018 as some sort of addon or specific form layout but can’t recall much else about it.