Pasting images into rich text fields
Hello. If I use Firefox, I can open an image that's been saved to my desktop, right-click copy it, then paste it into a rich text field within a QB form (note: I'm aware of the record size implication...
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Quick Base only allows the ability to paste in an image reference into a rich text field. Are you sure this is happening in Firefox and not just an image reference to a place on the web? The challenge with a rich text field is that if you paste it in, we don't actually know where you want to store it. So we currently support an image reference via URL only.
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Harrison Hersch
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Harrison Hersch
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Absolutely sure it's happening. You ought to be able to try it yourself in Firefox. My users find the ability quite necessary.
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Patrick Dunn
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Patrick Dunn
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- I believe what's happening is that in FF the image is embedded in the HTML via conversion to a string in base64.
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Patrick Dunn
------------------------------- Yep.
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Harrison Hersch
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- I am in trying in Firefox Quantum 69.0.2 and can't make it happen. The only thing that we can think of is that your browser may be converting the image into base64 representation and then we would wind up storing it as data. If that happened, I don't quite think we would consider it a bug, but it certainly could cause performance issues since we would be storing pretty large blobs of text.
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Harrison Hersch
------------------------------- Yes. You are correct regarding the performance matter. My users insist on being able to copy/paste this way. Using the image reference route, there are too many extra steps for them. Consequently, I've had to devise a means of regularly archiving this content (migrating it from the field to an attachment associated with the record).
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Patrick Dunn
------------------------------- Definitely make sure you get this on UserVoice and/or vote. This sort of thing is very real in the near future as far as things we could enhance.
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Harrison Hersch
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