I've been working on a reservations application for my employer and one of the requirements was for a picture to be provided of a resource and for that picture to show up in the reservation. Now that sounds like a simple enough request but unfortunately it's easier said than done, or so it seems. Now, the normal way to do this is to create a "Computed Text" area with a value containing an tag with the appropriate URL to the image. But, this doesn't really work, you get a red box with an X in it instead of the image. Also, whenever you open the document in edit mode the picture shows up. Also, if you right click the red box and select "Show Images" the picture shows up just fine. So, what's the deal?

I found this post in the Notes 8 forum which explains it quite nicely. It seems you have to include a Computed for Display field on your form named "$DelayedImagesOK" with a value of "OK". Once this field is present the images will show up all of the time without having to edit the document or select "Show Images" from a menu.

But I thought that was pretty cool, plus it kept me from having to figure out how to do it with MIME