Spice Up Your Pages with Image Fields
Jan 8, 2006With the Winter ’06 release, formula fields allow you to incorporate images into standard and custom tabs, list views, and reports. Because people recognize images more quickly than they can read words, adding images to Salesforce can enable users to find the data they’re looking for more quickly. For example,
• Photos for product catalogs or employee directories
• Graphical representations of status, priority, or
rating
• Clickable Buttons
• Online Presence Indicator
As an example, you can add green, yellow, or red flag images to the Cases tab to provide a quick visual indication of case priority.
Formula Return
Type:
Text
Formula:
IMAGE(
CASE( {!Priority},
"Low", "/img/samples/flag_green.gif",
"Medium", "/img/samples/flag_yellow.gif",
"High", "/img/samples/flag_red.gif",
"/s.gif"),
"priority flag")
For tips & techniques and many more samples, be sure to check out Getting Started with Image Fields on the Image Fields home page on successforce.com.
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Is it possible to make WIL's into clickable images?
Posted by: Krishnan | January 08, 2006 at 11:04 PM
No, you can't make WIL's into clickable images, but you can make hyperlink formula fields into clickable images.
You should be able to replace your WIL with a formula field of return type Text, and then use a combination of HYPERLINK & IMAGE functions to do this.
Posted by: Eric Bezar | January 09, 2006 at 09:40 AM
Where do you get the *.gifs for the images?
Posted by: | January 09, 2006 at 11:42 AM
Look on the last page of the "Getting Started with Images" document for a list of sample images that are available on the salesforce site. You can reference them exactly as in the image formula samples (using relative file references).
You can also load images in your Documents tab and reference them using document IDs. This is described in "Getting Started with Images".
Posted by: Eric Bezar | January 09, 2006 at 10:09 PM
Is it possible to make the stoplights bigger?
Posted by: Is it possible to make the stoplights bigger? | January 10, 2006 at 01:55 PM
How can I use an image formula field that references something in a Related List. Specifically I'd like a visual indicator in Accounts and Contacts that tells our service reps at a glance that the customer has an active contract.
Posted by: Larry Click | January 11, 2006 at 03:37 PM
Image fields are part of the formula language, and there isn't currently a way to reference information in a related list from a formula that is part of the parent record.
We are planning to provide this capability in the future.
Posted by: Eric Bezar | January 11, 2006 at 06:05 PM