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by lessbones 1256 days ago

    I had recently been looking at ToolJet to build an internal app for my printing company-- essentially I'm looking for something to use as a filemaker type system.  I want to make job tickets for print jobs, essentially just searchable text with a thumbnail image preview (or two or three) representative of the contents of the job and then details on media and print settings.  All of this is fairly straightforward except for the image part.  Ideally I'd be able to drag and drop a thumbnail into the "file upload" widget and have it appear in the "image" widget, but this is where I'm getting stuck.  I realize it is possible to store image files in a SQL database, but I'm not sure if this is my best option.

    I'm very much a "no-code" or "low-code" target, as i'm not a programmer, but i know my way around a linux terminal, and I host some docker instances in which i've interacted with sql databases before.  But I feel like if a tool like this is going to catch on with anyone less competent than someone fluent in at least one programming language, I'm a pretty good test case for what that could look like--

    Honestly I wish there were a more traditional forum, I'm really not a fan of the current trend to have all discussion on a slack/discord channel where the information isn't threaded by topic, and is constantly at risk of being lost forever if the slack subscription stops being paid past 10,000 recent posts...
*edit: formatting
1 comments

You don't want to indent your paragraphs here, as that converts it to a fixed width font (that's more for showing a short code snippet)

Just put a line break instead.