Database-resident images may be copied into an Image Server Frame, which is imported into the target application or an included application of the target application.

Before a report is run, an Image Server variable must be initialized with the Image Server Frame containing Image Trim required by the report. A global Image Server Variable (G_ImgSvr) of type u_imgsvr is provided in repopen.img (which must be included in any application that runs report procedures). You may declare additional image server variables, but a report procedure always expects to find its images in G_ImgSvr. An Image Server Frame may contain images for any number of reports and mimics the original database-resident mechanism for image storage.

When running a static Reporter-generated procedure from an application, an Image Server is used by default for any image trim originally stored in the design database.

The Procedure Tool provides the means to construct and update an Image Server Frame.