If you wish to perform operations on Plug-in data stored in an Area during the operation of a Trigger, you must create an offscreen area inside the trigger and copy the data from the Picture or BLOB field into the offscreen area. For example, to copy the text of a 4D Write external area into another field inside a trigger use code such as:

Copy and paste the following code into your 4D project:
` Trigger for [MyTable]
C_LONGINT($0)
$0:=0 ` Assume the database request will be granted
Case of
: (Database event=On Saving New Record Event )
` Perform appropriates action for the saving of a newly created record
tempAreaID:=WR New offscreen area
WR BLOB TO AREA (tempAreaID;[MyTable]myWR_BLOB_)
[MyTable]MyTextField:=WR Get text (tempAreaID;0;32000)
WR DELETE OFFSCREEN AREA (tempAreaID)
: (Database event=On Saving Existing Record Event )
` Perform appropriates actions for the saving of an already existing record
tempAreaID:=WR New offscreen area
WR BLOB TO AREA (tempAreaID;[MyTable]myWR_BLOB_)
[MyTable]MyTextField:=WR Get text (myWR_BLOB;0;32000)
WR DELETE OFFSCREEN AREA (tempAreaID)
: (Database event=On Deleting Record Event )
` Perform appropriates actions for the deletion of a record
: (Database event=On Loading Record Event )
` Perform appropriates actions for the loading into memory of a record
End case