I´m creating a form that displays the info of all of the employees, including their photo.
When in design view, I've tried using an image control and defining in its control source.
However, when I change to form view and navigate the employees records, their photo isn´t shown.
I've tried changing the field (where the photos are stored) data type to text, instead of hyperlink (as shown in this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5ZOOMrDjtU ) but the photos still do not appear.
The photos are stored as hyperlinks, that show the file path, and if i'm in datasheet view of the table, I can click on the employees photo hyperlink and it opens their photo.
Also, in access options, I have this picture property storage format selected: and the images are jpg files.
Does someone know how I can solve this issue? What could I have done wrong?
Thank you.
A true hyperlink in Access is made of 3 parts separated by # character.
display text # file name # any reference within the file
More info http://allenbrowne.com/casu-09.html
The hyperlink structure won't work in Image control ControlSource property and can't simply convert the hyperlink field to a text type as the resulting string will not be a valid file path. Either manually enter correct image file path or use string manipulation code to extract file path part from the hyperlink field and save to a text field (x represents fieldname):
Mid(Left(x,InStrRev(x,"#")-1),Instr(x,"#")+1)
On second thought, that expression could be in the ControlSource property so the hyperlink field could be retained as is and a text field not needed.
More info on expressions in ControlSource property: Access Form: `abc.Picture="xyz.jpg"` makes listbox & textboxes "blink" once
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I have taken over an MS Access database that was created by an employee that has moved on. It appears that he has created a form in the database by importing a paper form that is used within our company. What makes me believe that he imported a paper form is the exactness of Access form in relation to the paper form.
I am not sure how to ask query this using Google nor Bing. Can someone point me in the right direction on how to do this, please? I need to do the same thing with another paper form.
Yes, June7 is right, this is a handy technique.
Scan your paper document as JPG or PNG
Create a blank Access Form, and from the Design ribbon menu, choose "Insert Image" and select your newly created JPG or PNG scan
For the image object, check the properties window and make sure the "Sizing Mode" is set to Clip (and not Stretch or Zoom)
Now re-size the Image on your form so you can see everything correctly.
Now add Text boxes on top of the image, to create fillable text fields, exactly over the same place as the ones in the scanned image behind your text boxes.
You can then make a Table with the same field names, and update the Form to use this Table as it's Data Source on the Data Tab of the Form properties.
Once you have the form working perfectly nicely,
a handy time-staving step is File -> Save Object As -> change the Form dropdown to Report
Now you have created a Report that is printable using the same data table you created earlier (and write macro or VBA code make sure you print only one record at a time if that is the normal behaviour you expect)
I have a list of projects that results from a query in source of my form.
Depending on the state of a field, I change the appearance of an image (validated or Unvalidated icon) via the controlsource of the control image. It works very well.
In a second time, on image click, I need to get the ID of the record of chosen line (DP_ID). And that's where I can not do it. Whatever line you choose, it's always the first ID I get.
PS: This function works with buttons, but the control Butoon has no ControlSource and I can not load the image of it.
Do you know a solution?
I have a html file with some images in a directory. I would simply want to open a report and show the html file (including the images) inside the report. Is there a way to achieve this? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
I've found this : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd207057.aspx. Tell me if it's useful? ;oP
To add HTML from a field in your dataset into a text box
1.On the Insert tab, click List. Click the design surface, and then drag to create a box that is the size you want.
The Dataset Properties dialog box opens. You can use a shared dataset or a dataset embedded in your report. For more information, click Dataset Properties Dialog Box, Query (Report Builder) or Dataset Properties Dialog Box, Query.
2.On the Insert tab, click Text Box. Click in the list, and then drag to create a box that is the size you want.
3.Drag an HTML field from your dataset into the text box. A placeholder is created for your field.
4.Right-click the placeholder, and then click Placeholder Properties.
5.On the General tab, verify that the Value box contains an expression that evaluates to the field you dropped in step 3.
6.Click HTML - Interpret HTML tags as styles. This causes the field to be evaluated as HTML.
7.Click OK.
Alright, this is what resolved the issue. I am converting the html to a image using CutyCapt and storing the image in the database as a blob. In the report I have a image control which refers to the image and this works fine.
Hope this helps.
Thanks everyone.
I've created a hyperlink control on a form page in an Access 2013 App hosted in SharePoint 2013, and want the text to display the same text ("Print Timesheet") while the actual link itself varies based on the value of a field in the record. This is so that I can link to a separate application using a query string with the individual record ID, which gets the data directly from the azure database and formats it in order to be printed out.
I've tried a macro expression to create the link address that runs "on current" and sets the value of the hyperlink, and also tried a computed column in the table to create the link which I pass to the hyperlink control value. I've set the "Default Display Text" on the hyperlink control to "Print Timesheet" in both cases.
The problem I have is that whichever way I try it, changing the value on the fly like this overrides the default display text of the hyperlink so that it displays the address itself rather than the text I want to display.
Is there any way round this?
Thanks,
Duncan
I am not sure if you got your answers. I was randomly looking on internet and found your query.
I thought the thread Troubles with Hyperlink control in Access Web App forms may have your answer.
LILizEidsness replied on August 21, 2014See post history
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If you have to build a url field dynamically, the basic syntax is
displaytext#url#
so, in my dynamic field....
=Concat("Click here#/relative/path/on/my/sharepointsite/allitems.aspx&ID=",[ID],"#")
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You could use a label on the form to represent the link. Have the Label.Caption property set to "Print Timesheet" and use the On Current event to set the Label.HyperlinkAddress property to whatever the address from the recordsource is.
I have an Access form in which I am unsuccessful in formatting the record to be in hyperlink format.
The form is in datasheet-view format, which contains records with a link to a website. The form’s datasource is a select-query. The hyperlink is created with the following expression, which concantenates text and data, in order create a web link :
"#http://www.ups.com/WebTracking/processInputRequest?sort_by=status&tracknums_displayed=1&TypeOfInquiryNumber=T&loc=en_us&InquiryNumber1=" & [T].[tracking_number] & "&track.x=0&track.y=0#"
I tried setting the property-sheet format field to “hyperlink” , but it automatically changes to “hy"perli"n\k”, in both the query-design view, and form-design-view.
please advise what I need to do in order to have the form output the records in hyperlink format, so I can just click on the website link and it will open up in a web browser
thanks very much in advance,
Nathaniel, Access 2007
You can use the IsHyperlink property for the textbox (format tab) , once again, these are a nuisance to edit. If you create a form based on a table with a hyperlink field, the control created for the hyperlink field will be set up as a link.
More on IsHyperlink: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa196153(office.11).aspx
Paste something like this into the textbox to see it working:
clickme#http://www.ups.com/WebTracking/processInputRequest?sort_by=status&tracknums_displayed=1&TypeOfInquiryNumber=T&loc=en_us&InquiryNumber1=123456&track.x=0&track.y=0#