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

"No matter how "dumbed down" you try to make the process, there will always
be a dumber user." Seth

...Programming 101 :(((((

William Hindman
"All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." Edmund
Burke


----- Original Message -----
From: "Seth Galitzer" <sgsax at ksu.edu>
To: "accessd" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 5:44 PM
Subject: RE: [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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> >
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> Seth Galitzer sgsax at ksu.edu
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> Dept. of Plant Pathology
> Kansas State University
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