In the Microsoft support document Distribute a report [https://support.office.com/en-us/article/distribute-a-report-561a9066-00ab-41ee-8f07-a0734810a778] is a section: Export a report to a folder or Sharepoint document library.
The description does not match with my MS Access version.
My version is Microsoft Access for Microsoft 365.
Can anybode tell me how to enter the URL of Sharepoint Online in the navigation pane?
Well, the instructions are that you want to put a word file, a pdf file, a text file or whatever into that SharePoint folder.
So, the advice in that example is NOT limited to Access. All they are saying is to run the report, export it as a PDF file. You are THEN free to copy and place that resulting PDF file into that shared folder on SharePoint. So, how you get/place/copy that PDF file into that folder is the same as how you would copy a word file, a excel file or any kind of windows file into that folder.
Quite sure you just type in the URL that points to the folder name, and then you are free to use the up-load files option in the SharePoint site. The other way is to use the "map" folder option from SharePoint, and that will give you a look alike or useable folder from the windows explore. So, how you get the exported Access PDF file (the report that is now a simple PDF) into that folder is no different then how you copy any other file into that SharePoint folder.
If a user can't copy or get a word file, a text file, Excel file, or in this case a simple PDF file into that folder, then all is lost here.
You are being asked to place/copy a pane jane windows file.
So, you run the Access report. In the ribbon (assuming Access 2007 or later) there is a export to PDF option. You thus create the PDF file on your computer, and then place that file on the Shared folder on SharePoint. So the REAL question here is?
I have a file on my computer - how can I place it into a SharePoint folder? How this works for ANY file, including that PDF you created (exported) from Access is 100% the same.
So, users will have to learn how to place a file into that SharePoint folder. Once they learn how to do this, then they can place any file - such as a PDF in this case into that folder.
So, creating that plain jane PDF file from the Access report results in a static PDF file, and then you simply copy that file to the SharePoint folder.
Now, you might want to be able to skip the step after you create the PDF, and it would be more convenient to simply specify the URL WHEN exporting the PDF from Access. As noted, to do this you need to map the SharePoint folder to a windows folder, and then this will work.
The steps are:
Log into https://portal.office.com
Click on your apps menu and choose SharePoint
Browse to a document library > Documents
In the bottom left corner of the browser click the “Return to classic SharePoint”
You have to set trusted locations. The full set of steps for this are here:
https://jasoncoltrin.com/2018/10/25/solved-sharepoint-office365-open-with-explorer-not-working-on-windows-10-internet-explorer-11/
Once that folder can be used/seen in windows, then you can specify that folder when you export the PDF. Only you can decide if all those extra steps are worth the effort, or that users just place the resulting PDF file into that SharePoint folder the SAME WAY that they now place any old windows file into that SharePoint folder.
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I would like to open/select the file from SharePoint location, the file dialogue box(HTML file upload feature) should open with a list of files from the SharePoint directory instead of pointing to the system directory. is it possible?
Currently, the dialogue box opens with the current system directory file location.
Is it feasible with all browsers?
Yes, it is feasible.
However, you might need to custom design the interface.
You would need to perform a rest API call to SharePoint document library to show the list of files. You can use Microsoft Graph API to make the calls and extract the details.
Locally, I have several OneNote notebooks in the OneNote 2007 format. For reasons out of scope it is difficult to convert them to the new format first.
I want to be able to send a copy of the notebook to OneNote Online so that I can read-only it from wherever OneNote Online is accessible.
Programmatically, I have used the OneNote desktop API to export a page as an MHT file. Then I have used further code to convert the MHT to an HTML file. Finally, I then used MS graph explorer (because I haven't written that part of the code yet), to create a new OneNoteAPI page with the HTML that I exported.
I had expected the resulting page in OneNote Online to look like the HTML I had just uploaded.
It .. did not.
a) Where before I had a nice OneNote list with checkboxes I now had them laid out vertically. So checkbox\nitem\ncheckbox\item.
b) The title box that was exported as part of the HTML .. remained in its place and the new page did not absorb it into its title box.
So, how can I programmatically send a page from a desktop OneNote to a OneNote Online folder and have it look the same?
NB: I actually want to send the entire notebook but am trying one page at a time.
NB2: I cannot port all the notebooks to OneNote online once off and then just use that. They need to live in the local network.
NB3: I suppose I could just set up an FTP site with the HTML pages that I just exported - that is plan Z.
Thank you
is it possible to upload video file using access database and vb? i am beginner in programming and our project is all about uploading files. Can anyone help me? I used access database because that is the requirement.
Would the video files be uploaded to a local network server or to a website?
If you are uploading the files to to a local server, you could have access:
1 Open up a file dialog to browse to the file to be uploaded.
2 Copy that file to a specific directory on your network, making sure the filename is unique or possibly creating a file name based on the original file name and date of upload. ie filename_datetime.
See the following answer for steps 1 and 2: storing large numbers of images in ms access
3 Maintain information in a table with fields for: filename, file location, user, upload date, friendly file name and possibly links to other tables such as clientID etc.
If you are uploading the files to a web server, you could do this in access, but you'd probably be better off managing the uploading and listing of files in a website. You could build it yourself or look into what you already have, as many content management systems will have this kind of file management built in.
I am having several rdl files which uses the shared data source, which is defined in the sample.rds file. Now when i try to publish the .rdl files using the rss scipt, i am getting the below error,
The dataset `Sample' refers to the shared data source `Sample', which is not published on the report server. The shared data source `Sample' must be published before this report can run.
It clearly says the 'Sample' data source referred in rdl files is not published.
So before trying to publish the rdl files, i need to publish the sample.rds file. How to do that? How do i publish the .rds files using the rss script?
Thanx in advance
Do you have access to BIDS?
If yes, you can just open your project, right click it and deploy.
All datasources will be deployed to the folder specified on the project configuration
Creating it manually worked for me:
Browse to http://localhost/Reports_SQL2008
Click New Data Source, add Name="Sample", connectionstring="Data Source=.\sql2008; Initial Catalog=yourDB;"
Use Windows credentials
Save
So if I try to take an Access database that currently resides on a network shared drive (or try to create a brand new one for that matter) on a web folder of a "workspace", why won't it work? I have read, write modify permissions on the folder I am trying to add it to, however I can errors, and it won't recognize the file type (.accdb or .mdb gets made .unk).
Could someone just explain the logic to me of why this doesn't work?
EDIT: So I guess I should include that on the shared drive there is a folder that houses the access front end file, and another folder within this folder that houses the BE tables file. I tried to reproduce what it one the shared drive in the web folder. I cannot even get the .mdb portion to work unless it's downloaded locally to my computer.
The easy way arround this problem is to use a ODBC DSN to access the database, (BE) and have the FE (front-end), in your local computer. This happens because MS-Access needs to lock the file while using it.
You should be able to work with the FE using SkyDrive and other services like it, cause they copy the file localy, and when you close the file they syncs it to the web folder.