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Referencing local images in app?

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I wan to build a simple price-book app with 30 or so products. Each product has a single image. Rather than have the images be downloaded every time the page is loaded, I'd like to put the images in the app, itself. Since the app will be used in the field with LTE connections, I'd like to conserve bandwidth where possible.

The problem is: how can I map the "Products" in the remote database with their local images in the app? Could I do something as simple as putting the name of the image in the database in a field called "local_image_name" or something?

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NickMerrick 419 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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if you worried about load times etc, use an ID number, label the images with the Product ID, as numbers filter much faster than string matching.
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Would the difference be noticeable if there are, say, 2 dozen images in the app?
NickMerrick 419 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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I haven't seen a noticeable difference on the scale your talking about, but when you start to pass the thousands it becomes a noticeable decrease in speed if your doing a text based lookup vs a indexed number look up. Its more a good practice step than anything else. Text or Number lookups will work. As for just adding image name to sharepoint, like I said, I would name the image something unique to the product record, so if it has an ID number, or a unique name, name the image that.