5.2.5  Images across DS-Access

If you've listened to what has not been said in the discussion of manipulating data in Synopsis, Browse, List and Datasheet Views, you heard that there is no method for working with images as a group, over the course of all the records; we only offered you the option of seeing all the records for one manuscript at a time via the List Images button in the Synopsis View.  What to do if you need to work with the images overall?    The answer seems simple:  you'd build a query.

But the downside of a compiled version, such as the present DS-Access, is the restriction on your freedom to construct your own queries and to manipulate your own data.  You can't do it here.  Escape lies in the word "here"; elsewhere you can make your own queries and run them.  So on that top title bar, look three headings over to "Maintenance."  Choose Backup Data; do that little chore, and then manipulate the backup version of your data.  Never play around with the real database, never.  A Best Practices principle.

In the specific instance of a Digital Object ID in hand and ignorance of the manuscript from which it ultimately descends, you could use the Upstream Query which is laid out in the Appendix. Mutatis mutandis, the example of how to build the one query can serve many other purposes.