title: Relative paths for images in MS Access 2003 or 2010?
body: <p>Is it possible to use relative path for images in MS Access 2003 or 2010?</p>
  
  <p>As far as I found out it is not.</p>
  
  <p>You could just play around with generating path during the runtime and make it look like it is a relative path</p>
  
  <pre><code>image1.Picture = &lt;ProgramPath&gt; &amp; "\" &amp; &lt;RelativePath&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but doing it that way, I dont have the ability to take a look at the picture during design time. and i do really need that option!</p>
  
  <p>and here is the usecase. if you know a solution, that would be great:</p>
  
  <p>folderDevelopment &lt; only accessable for developers and for playing around with new stuff
  folderDevelopment\myProgram\myProgramDevelopment.mdb / accdb &lt; testprogram
  folderDevelopment\myProgram\Images &lt; imagefolder </p>
  
  <p>folderProduction &lt; accessable for normal user<br>
  folderProduction\myProgram\Images &lt; imagefolder for the normal user<br>
  folderProduction\myProgram\myProgramProduction.mdb / accdb &lt; program for regular user</p>
  
  <p>at some time i need to copy myProgramDevelopment.mdb, rename it to myProgramProduction.mdb
  and move it to the other folder.</p>
  
  <p>if i use absolute path, my links dont break but the normal user have no right to read in the folderDevelopment. so images break.</p>
  
  <p>if i use pseudo relative path, the links during runtime are always perfect, but i dont have an image during design time, so its not very nice for development. </p>
  
  <p>only solution I see at the moment is to use absolute paths and change them every time I make the switch (manually or with a macro), which is an option but not very nice.</p>
  
  <p>why access 2003 and even 2010 dont support relative paths? that is so lame :/ </p>