I have quite a simple issue that is baffling me.
I'm building a product database, simple enough, but I'm having issues with automatically pulling in the product images.
All images reside on a server with a standard naming convention. [SKU#]_Main.jpg, [SKU#]_AV.jpg, [SKU#]_AV1.jpg, etc.
They all reside in one of two folders: w:\Photos\02 Gear\High Res\ or W:\Photos\01 Apparel\High Res\
These paths are used to populate data sheets for upload to our online retailers.
Wanting to make product data entry for all these image paths automatic I created the following:
FilePath list box with the two path choices.
Textboxes: Main, AV, AV1 etc. that are automatically populated with this expression: =[FilePath] & [SKU] & "_AV.jpg" ( the "_AV" changing for each variant.
Then, image boxes look to the textboxes for the filepath and displays the image.
If the filepath is just typed into the Main, AV, etc fields the image box populates. If I use the expression it doesn't, even though the text in the Main, AV, etc fields are identical.
In the image the first 3 lines are typed in. The image boxes populate. The next lines have the expression. By all outward appearances the file path 'looks' the same. But it won't pull the image.
So what obvious piece am I missing? I know I'm going to feel like an idiot once one of you kind folk answer :)
You are probably fighting with the hyperlink syntax and may have to use HyperlinkPart:
CleanUrl = HyperlinkPart(SavedUrl, acAddress)
I wrote an article dealing with this (and more):
Show pictures directly from URLs in Access forms and reports
A working demo is for download at that page.
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I am trying to automate a workflow for automatically creating HTML newsletters based on information stored in a spreadsheet.
Currently, I am using a newsletter drag and drop tool, in which several pre-programmed blocks are available (e.g. full column block, 2 column block etc). When creating a newsletter, I drag and drop a block and fill in my content (e.g. uploading an image, inserting a url). This is all well and good, however, since I have to create the same newsletter in 10 different languages, this process is quiet time consuming and prone to human error. While all newsletters are the same in terms of layout, the images and urls differ.
To solve this issue, I would like to get rid of the drag and drop process, and instead automate the workflow in some other way.
One idea that I have already tried, but that doesn't seem like the perfect option to me, is to dynamically create the needed HTMLs in Excel. Basically, the idea is to take the existing block template structure, and put it into Excel with some formulas.
I could then copy and paste the links to the images (in a simple format, such as EN1.jpg, ES1.jpg, etc.), as well as to urls (url.com, url.es).
This is some example block:
<img alt="" align="center" width="700" style="max-width:700px;" class="resetWidth" border="0" src="IMAGE" />
My final expected result is something like this:
I define the layout in a very quick manner (e.g. writing fullcolumn, half column, fullcolumn). The corresponding code is taken from the template. I then provide the attributes (image url, link url) in the form of a list or so. The end result should then be 10 html files that I simply have to upload to the newsletter software.
I would appreciate it very much if anyone had any ideas on this.
Another option for translating the page is to do something like this https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_google_translate.asp
it adds a selection for languages to translate into.
As for automating the images, you could set up folders for each langauge and reuse the name of images based on where you want them so they would be placed in the correct location.
All you'll have to do it replace the images with the same file names and swap the default language on the Google Translator.
So something like this that the html will stay the same with regards to the image names
For the link variables you may be able to write some JS or another language to take advantage of the
<html lang="">
and based on which lang is set, insert a set of links to the file.
I'm making a form letter in SSRS 2012 that will be delivered by email. I had it working fine but now the powers that be have requested a much more dynamic aspect to it based on the individual recipient... Different paragraphs now need to be included/excluded based on the target.
With that, I pulled the body of the email out of SSRS and am now assembling it in SQL Server and passing it over to SSRS as a parameter (so that I don't wind up making a dozen SSRS reports to handle the need).
I have that part working too now, but hit a snag... There were a few bullet points as well as URL's that could look nicer. I'd like to force an indention before the bullet points and replace www.mysite.com with something prettier like "Click Here". On the SSRS side of the fence, I currently just have a single text box (and ideally would keep it that way) which contains an expression that references my "EmailBody" parameter.
So far, I have not found the right combination of words to send to Google to see if this is possible, so I figured I'd go straight to the pros here. I did try formatting the output in a similar manner to what an expression would look like ( ="This is the body of my email" ) and it just passed that straight on through to the final output.
Any ideas would be appreciated!
Jason
In case it helps anyone else, I figured out the secret.
Change your text box in SSRS to expect HTML by right-clicking on the placeholder (<< EXP >>) inside the text box, selecting Placeholder Properties, and change the Markup Type to "HTML - Interpret HTML tags as styles".
After that, go back to the SQL Server side of the fence and change the text you are sending as a parameter to HTML with whatever styling properties you desire.
Sounds like you're on the right track with the HTML markup. I also wanted to suggest that you can use a data-driven subscription. Have the query generate the HTML you want. Then have that populate the body of the email. That way there's no need for any attachments. This has come in handy when I wanted to display a small table of data for viewing on a mobile device rather than having to open an Excel attachment.
I'd like to know how you would try to solve the following problem:
I have an excel-spreadsheet containing "linked information" (like a matrix-type) of business processes which need to be transformed to HTML websites.
Only certain parts of the spreadsheet should be exported.
The needed data consists of a hierarchical representations of certain categories that hold different components.
So for example category 1 consists of component A which has sub-components A1, A2 and so on.
The goal is to represent that single excel spreadsheet with html websites where the main-categories lead to pages with subcategories (always listing which subcategories they hold) and so on. Kind of like a process or business flow-chart.
Whenever something gets changed, added, removed within the spreadsheet I'd like to reflect this new information with the webpages accordingly.
The important part would be not having to edit several webpages but have everything rebuild at once - with the right structure.
My first thoughts were to define one XSD file to extract and transform the data with XSL and there create the final web structure. I'm not quite sure how time-intensive this would be and if I could actually have a satisfying outcome.
Maybe you have a better solution for me or you can point me to some link where something similar is accomplished.
I hope I could get my problem across.
Thanks for your time.
UPDATE
I made a simple version of my spreadsheet.
|*Sub*|*Description*|*Key*|
|SubName|some text| 11|
|SubName|some text| 11|
|SubName|some text| 21|
|SubName|some text| 22|
Here the "key"-column is needed to structure the final html layout where 11 and 12 belong to an even higher category 10 which later needs to be added to the result set. What also needs to be added is a "title-category" with the highest level of 1, 2 etc.
I want to reach a point where I can create an html webpage with the title categories being listed (just like headlines) and (on the same page) in some sort of rectangle frame one can see the next level of categories (here 10 and 20) which work as a link and take one to another webpage displaying category 10 and 20 now as headlines and have the sub-categories listed and clickable to reach the final, detailed table listing. So basically it's a top-to-bottom drill down of information.
I have three excel files with these title categories (for example: customers, orders, services)
Returning these three spreadsheets in one html webpage would be the goal. And from there one could click through to the detail pages. For now I'd be happy just to get one spreadsheet in order.
Has anyone got a good idea how I can:
a) write a schema-file to receive a proper xml file,
b) and of course turn the xml file to an html file.
if you can point me to some examples with a similar problem, I'd be happy as well.
thanks for your support.
I have a website in which I have many categories, many sub-categories within each one and many products within each of those. Since the URLs are very user-unfriendly (they contain a GUID!!!), I would like to use a method which I think is called URL Masking. For example instead of going to catalogue.aspx?ItemID=12343435323434243534, they would go to notpads.htm. This would display the same as going to catalogue.aspx?ItemID=12343435323434243534 would display, somehow.
I know I could do this by creating a file for each category / sub-category (individual products cannot be accessed individually as it is a wholesale site - customers cannot purchase directly from the site). This would be a lot of work as the server would have to update each relevant file whenever a category / sub-category / product visibility changes, or a description changes, a name changes... you get the idea...
I have tried using server-side includes but that doesn't like it when a .aspx file is specified in an html file.
I have also tried using an iframe set to 100% width / height and absolutely positioned left 0 and top 0. This works quite well, but I know there are reasons you should not use this method such as some search engines not coping with it well. I also notice that the title of the "parent" page (notepads.htm) is not the title set in the iframe (logically this is correct - but another issue I need to solve if I go ahead and use this method).
Can anyone suggest another way I could do this, or tell me whether I am going along the right lines by using iframes? Thanks.
Regards,
Richard
PS If this is the wrong name for what I am trying to do then please let me know what it actually is so I can rename / retag it.
Look into URL Rewrites. You can create a regular expression and map it to your true url. For example
http://mysite.com?product=banana
could map to
http://mysite.com?guid=lakjdsflkajkfj3lj3l4923892&asfd=9234983920894893
I believe you mean URL Rewriting.
IIS 7+ has a rewrite module built in that you can use for this kind of thing.
URL Rewriters solve the problem you are describing - When someone requests page A, display page B - in a general way.
But yours is not a general requirement. You seem to have a finite uuid-to-shortname mapping requirement. This is the kind of thing you could or should set up in your app, yourself, rather than inserting a new piece of machinery into your system.
Within a default .aspx page, You'd simply do a lookup on the shortname from the url in a persistent table stored somewhere, and then call Server.Transfer() to the uuid-named page associated to that shortname.
It should be easy to prototype this.
I've got an MS-Access app (1/10th MS-Acccess, 9/10ths MS-SQL) that needs to display photographs of some assets along with their specifications. Currently the images are stored in an MS-Access table as an OLE Object (and copy-n-pasted into the field by the users).
For various reasons, I would like to do is store the original .jpgs in a folder on the network drive, and reference them from the application portion. I have considered moving into MS-SQL's image data type (and its replacement varbinary), but I think my user population will more easily grasp the concept of the network folder.
How can I get MS Access to display the contents of a .jpg?
Another option is to put an image control on your form. There is a property of that control (Picture) that is simply the path to the image. Here is a short example in VBA of how you might use it.
txtPhoto would be a text box bound to the database field with the path to the image
imgPicture is the image control
The example is a click event for a button that would advance to the next record.
Private Sub cmdNextClick()
DoCmd.GoToRecord , , acNext
txtPhoto.SetFocus
imgPicture.Picture = txtPhoto.Text
Exit Sub
End Sub
Have you looked at Stephen Lebans' solutions? Here's one:
Image Class Module for Access
Check out the list of other great code along the left-hand side of that web page. You may find something that fully matches what you need.
I found that this article by Microsoft with full VBA worked very well for me.
How to display images from a folder in a form, a report, or a data access page
The easiest way is probably to plop an Internet Explorer onto one of your forms. Check out this site: http://www.acky.net/tutorials/vb/wbrowser/
Since you can reference that object in Access, you will only need to point the webbrowser control to the path of the .jpg (NavigateTo() if I remember correctly).
EDIT: The above link was just googled and picked from the results (first one that opened quickly). I do not think it is a very good tutorial, it just has all the pointers you need... Check out msdn etc. if you need more information!
You can try an ActiveX control called AccessImagine, makes adding images to database more convenient - you can load from file, scan, paste from buffer or drag-n-drop. You can crop image right inside the database and resample it automatically. It handles external image storage automatically if you need it.
Note that in Access 2010 (and later) this is dead simple to do because the Image control can be bound to a field in the table that contains the path to the image file (.jpg, .png, ...). No VBA required.
For more details see my other answer here.
Do you mean something like this?
Display images in MS-Access Form tabular view.
Here's the original post from microsoft:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/access/display-images-using-custom-function
You just need to modify something in the form events:
Modify this part of the form code
Image Control
Name: ImageFrame
Picture: "C:\Windows\Zapotec.bmp"
Control Source: txtImageName
Note that the Control Source named "txtImageName" is the field name in your table which has the name and path of your images.
Everything get's fine after you modify that part.