[AccessD] Drag and drop files and Emails on form for archive purpose.

Drew,

You don't know users very well. :)  They don't want to have to think
about it, they just want to do it.  No matter how "dumbed down" you try 
to make the process, there will always be a dumber user.  Saying, "copy
the file to a folder," makes sense to you or me, but you can guarantee
Joe User will give you a glazed look as soon as you try to explain why. 
Of course, Joe User may not understand "drag the file onto the
application" either.  Really, you can't win, but you can die trying.  :)

Seth

On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 16:28, Drew Wutka wrote:
> Just a thought.  Why not have the users create a folder within their inbox.
> Have them drag emails they want 'recoreded' into that folder.  Then create a
> service/routine that just runs through that folder, importing the data into
> access?
>  
> Drew
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erwin Craps [mailto:Erwin.Craps at ithelps.be]
> Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 4:10 AM
> To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com'
> Subject: [AccessD] Drag and drop files and Emails on form for archive
> purpose.
> 
> 
> Hi
>  
> I already have a archive system for archiving outgooing emails and word
> doucments from an access database.
> But I need some archiving for Incoming correspondence to.
>  
> I believe the only way to achief this is to have a sort of drag and drop
> function.
> The user should be able to drag a document from the explorer or from inside
> an email but also an e-mail itself to a form in access where a specific
> customer is already selected.
> This when dropping the object o this customer, access will save the object
> (file/email) in the same format (.DOC, .XLS, .MSG) and creating a customer
> related record with the filename into the archive table.
>  
> What I'm basicly asking for is some easy or advanced code to see how the
> drag and drop works between Outlook/Explorer and Access and how I need to
> save the object to disk in its original format (.DOC, .MSG, .XLS, etc...).
>  
> The document archiving system I already have, but I never used a drag and
> drop functionality...
>  
> Thx
>  
> Erwin.
> 
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Seth Galitzer			sgsax at ksu.edu
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Dept. of Plant Pathology
Kansas State University