[AccessD] Adding Attachments

Mike and Doris Manning mikedorism at ntelos.net
Tue Mar 11 10:23:00 CST 2003


Virginia,
 
Whenever I am looking for information on a particular topic, I have actually
found it more useful to do a generic internet search using Google
(www.google.com) than to limit myself to the MS KB.
 
Doris Manning
Database Administrator
Hargrove Inc.
www.hargroveinc.com

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Hollis,Virginia
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 10:56 AM
To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com'
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Adding Attachments


Can you direct me to where I can find information on how to use the Common
Dialog control? I searched help & MS knowledge base, but I could not find
anything that tells how to make it work. I have never used any of the
ActiveX items under More Controls, for that reason - never know what to do
with them.
 
Virginia

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike and Doris Manning [mailto:mikedorism at ntelos.net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 9:25 AM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Adding Attachments


Virginia,
 
What I did was use the Common Dialog control (you can also use File Dialog
but it won't work in a runtime app) to allow the user to pick the current
location of the file.  Then I move a copy of it into a designated folder
path and store the full pathname (path and file name) in a database string
field.
 

Doris Manning
Database Administrator
Hargrove Inc.
www.hargroveinc.com

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Hollis,Virginia
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 10:12 AM
To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com'
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Adding Attachments



Do you know if there is a way to default the hyperlink to use "relative path
to hyperlink"? 
 
It always wants to use http:\\ for the hyperlink instead of the path. I set
the Base to the directory and folder. I set a field to Hyperlink, I was
hoping that all the customer would have to do is type the name of the
document into the field (Test Attach.doc) and it would open the hyperlink to
the document. Is this correct? What am I missing?
 
************
The archives only show the past 3 months, how do you get to the previous
messages?
 
Virginia
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Wortz, Charles [mailto:CWortz at tea.state.tx.us]
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 8:23 AM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Adding Attachments


Virginia,
 
Since you are storing the files externally to Access and only storing a link
(path name) to the files in Access, it makes no difference to Access what
types of files they are.  Linking to external files is a frequent subject on
this list so you should be able to find a lot of hints in the archives.
Some non-obvious search terms that may help are "Image files" and "bloat."
 

Charles Wortz 
Software Development Division 
Texas Education Agency 
1701 N. Congress Ave 
Austin, TX 78701-1494 
512-463-9493 
CWortz at tea.state.tx.us 

-----Original Message-----
From: Hollis,Virginia [mailto:HollisVJ at pgdp.usec.com] 
Sent: Tuesday 2003 Mar 11 08:13
To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com'
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Adding Attachments


I really do not know what I am after :-) I am open for any ideas because I
sure can't think of any...
 
Make a folder to store the attachments and they would place them in the
directory? Would it matter if they were .pdf or .doc or any type of file?
 
Virginia

-----Original Message-----
From: Wortz, Charles [mailto:CWortz at tea.state.tx.us]
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 7:59 AM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Adding Attachments


Virginia,
 
You can have a hyperlink field in a table in which the link to the external
document is placed.  Is this what you are after?

Charles Wortz 


-----Original Message-----
From: Hollis,Virginia [mailto:HollisVJ at pgdp.usec.com] 
Sent: Tuesday 2003 Mar 11 07:51
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [AccessD] Adding Attachments


Is there a way to add a document as an attachment to a database? 
 
The database is used to request services. The data is entered by a customer
and sometimes the customer needs to add additional documentation to support
their request. The attachment might be a sketch or Word file.
 
Does anyone have any idea how this might be done?
 
Virginia

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