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Here is an example of dragging files from Windows Explorer to a form in Access<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0032.htm">http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0032.htm</a><br>
It is easier to do in VB since most controls have an OLEdrag property or
method.<br>
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Erwin Craps wrote:<br>
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<div><span class="156460110-22032003"><font face="Arial" size="2">Hi</font></span></div>
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<div><span class="156460110-22032003"><font face="Arial" size="2">I already
have a archive system for archiving outgooing emails and word doucments
from an access database.</font></span></div>
<div><span class="156460110-22032003"><font face="Arial" size="2">But I
need some archiving for Incoming correspondence to.</font></span></div>
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<div><span class="156460110-22032003"><font face="Arial" size="2">I believe
the only way to achief this is to have a sort of drag and drop function.</font></span></div>
<div><span class="156460110-22032003"><font face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></span></div>
<div><span class="156460110-22032003"><font face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></span></div>
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<div><span class="156460110-22032003"><font face="Arial" size="2">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...).</font></span></div>
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<div><span class="156460110-22032003"><font face="Arial" size="2">The document
archiving system I already have, but I never used a drag and drop functionality...</font></span></div>
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<div><span class="156460110-22032003"><font face="Arial" size="2">Thx</font></span></div>
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<div><span class="156460110-22032003"><font face="Arial" size="2">Erwin.</font></span></div>
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