[AccessD] Scanning documents as attachment

We're on a shared drive that's gainormous. I'm not worried about space. The
only reason she'd change a document would be if you chose the wrong one in
the first place. Each animal comes in with one or two -- they don't change.
She wants to know when she receives them and then link to them so she can
review them quickly instead of physically finding them in a file cabinet
somewhere.

Guys, the new Attachment field is delightful. You double-click it and it
opens a dialog to let you find and select the file. Once there's a file,
you just click it to open it. I had to do absolutely nothing to get it to
work. For our purposes, that's good enough for me. :) The ease has got me
leaning toward a 10 easy things you didn't know you could do in Access
without a little sweat article or something like that. :)

Susan H.

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 2:49 AM, Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
wrote:

> The main problems with storing any sort of BLOBs in the database are
>
> 1.  Massive bloat if you are changing the data.
> 2.  Even if you aren't changing it, you can still quickly hit the 2GB
> limit on the database size.
>
>
> --
> Stuart
>
> On 26 Sep 2014 at 2:33, Bill Benson wrote:
>
> > How about ADO streams in a memo field (I guess it is something else in
> > AC2013) in lieu of attachments? Reading them in and exporting takes
> > some coding skill, but not that complicated. On Sep 25, 2014 6:04 PM,
> > "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> wrote:
> >
> > > I'll say it again.
> > >
> > > Attachment data types, like Hyperlinks and multivalue fields are the
> > > spawn of the devil :-)
> > >
> > > (I'm sending you a stripped down application with a form that does
> > > what you want using conventional data types).
> > >
> > > --
> > > Stuart
> > >
> > >
> > > On 25 Sep 2014 at 15:09, Susan Harkins wrote:
> > >
> > > > The new Attachment data type makes this so easy that I'm
> > > > embarrassed I brought it up...
> > > >
> > > > Susan H.
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 1:05 PM, James Button
> > > > <jamesbutton at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > More considerations:
> > > > >
> > > > > Maybe a commentary field where the user can indicate the source
> > > > > of the file -
> > > > >
> > > > > Frequently documents have codes and signatures, and even the
> > > > > originating facility, but do not include the indication of who
> > > > > sent it on to you, or even if it is an 'authorised', or
> > > > > 'certified' copy.
> > > > >
> > > > > And
> > > > >
> > > > > Where is the original filed, what reference/folder/storage
> > > > > facility and under who's responsibility, as there will be times
> > > > > when electronic copies will not be acceptable.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > That starts on a whole new table - for the documents received,
> > > > > placed in the store, passed on, copied to,  and destroyed etc.
> > > > > along with who did the action, and who logged the entry.
> > > > >
> > > > > Ah! - a whole new administration workload -
> > > > > Empire building yea!
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > JimB
> > > > >
> > > > >
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