Can I put a jpg image file in a database field in Pan X?
Image source is iPhoto on my computer.
Mac OSX El Capitan 10.11.6
MacBook Pro (Retina mid 2012)
No, you cannot put the image itself into a database field. However, you can put the name and path of the image into a database field, and display the image in a form from that. See Creating a Database Image Catalog on this help page:
I don’t know why you’d want to do it; but in principle couldn’t you put the image itself into a binary type field? I don’t think PanX has any code to let you display or edit a putative image so stored. To me it would just be a waste of RAM space. But if someone could dream up a useful reason it could be done.
I thought about mentioning that, but as you point out there would be no way to display it, other than saving it back to a file (which you could do). I figured that mentioning that technicality might be confusing, but John, you are correct.
I just dislike saying “you can’t do that in Panorama.” 
And once you finish Server such statements will be even rarer!
For virtually all practical purposes, ‘no’ is the answer here, just store the image’s file or path name in a text field or variable and work from that. But Panorama users have dreamt up some amazing tricks from the seemingly impractical fine print and I wouldn’t want to discourage their creativity.