I noticed in the 2013 Microsoft Access Desktop Product inventory template (Go to New -> Desktop Product inventory template -> Explore with sample data button -> A Sample User Login -> Purchases Tab -> Click "New" in the ID column
That you will see a pop up when you click this underlined blue "(New)" text in the ID column. It's an embedded macro that fires onclick to bring up a form that was designed.
I'm trying to achieve this same exact behavior in a brand new, blank database, with only 1 table and 1 form. I can't seem to figure out how you get the clickable blue (New) text in an empty table so that it fires an onclick event macro, much less make that macro contain a call to a form.
I figured out how to create a macro. I can create a table. I can create a form. I can't seem to get the default blank table row ID column to populate with a hyperlink/embedded macro (the "(New)" text in the sample inventory database)
In that sample template, we achieve the blue underline hyperlink-type effect by selecting that text box control in the datasheet form (datasheet form here, not table) and selecting "Always" for the "Display As Hyperlink" control property. By default, this control property will be "If Hyperlink." Change that to "Always" and you'll see the text box control change to a blue color and be underlined. You then need to create an embedded macro or VBA code attached to the On Click event of the control.
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I'm working on a DB in Microsoft Access 2016 and created a search form with multiple filters and then a Search button. It works perfectly fine, it shows the results in a query table that opens separately but I would like the results to be shown on the form page right below the button.
I tried:
creating a list box and setting the row source to my query
dragging the query itself on my form page to create a subquery and it only every data in the DB. The query is still functional, it opens in another tab and works, but the subform doesn't change at all
creating a combo box and displaying the results after pressing the button in the said combo box
adding another button in the subform to run the query but it has the same outcome: results displayed in a separate tab.
pic of what I want my form to do
I attached a pic, that's not my actual DB. Basically I want the box to display my results only after clicking the button.
Nothing has worked :( is there anything else I could try? I would gladly post my .accdb file if it's easier to understand what I mean.
Thank you!
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 MS Access form that is bound to a query in the database. I added a textbox and added a row source to a Hyperlink datafield in the query. When I open the form, it won't allow me to drop a file into the textbox.
Here's the deal. When I follow this EXACT same process on a new form, it works perfectly. That is, I open a blank form and I bind the form to some new query, let's say qryNewIdeas. Then on the blank form i add a textbox, let's say Text0. Then, when I select Text0, I go to the data tab - row source and choose the dropdown arrow to select the hyperlink field, lets say NewIdeasAddress. I click SAVE and open the form. It works PERFECTLY.
BUT, when I repeat this on an existing form (the one where I need the thing to actually work), it does nothing. It adds and changes the textbox to a hyperlink box (I note this because of the blue underlined word that appears in the box). But it won't allow me to drop files to this location.
I tried commenting out ALL of my VBA code to try to make sure that something wasn't hindering it (say in an OnLoad event) AND I've checked all of the form and control box properties and they seem to be the same in both the existing form and the test form.
I can't determine why it works on one form and not the other; Solution needed.
If you have access to "the data tab - row source ..", you are in design view.
When you later open the form, you are in form view, a completely different animal which specifically prohibits design changes.
It sounds like you will have to rethink your concept.
I have a table in Access 2010 called Table1. Column NCBI contains hyperlinks to webpages. I would like to display each hyperlink as a button in each cell and the caption for that button to be the field value from the same row one column to the left, the column Gene.
Does anyone know how to accomplish this?
First you must have the table containing the website information. In my example I have a table called Websites. In the table there is two fields: URL which contains the direct URL such as http://google.com and WEBSITE_NAME which is simply the name of the website "Google".
Create the form however you would like it to look using whatever Default View that you would like, however make sure that the Record Source is set to the table containing the website name's and URL's. In my test one I used Datasheet.
On that form make sure at least the WEBSITE_NAME field is showing on form in a textbox, in mine I called it txtWEBSITE_NAME. There is a property that belongs to the txtWEBSITE textbox called Display as Hyperlink set that to "Screen Only".
Then go to the events tab of the txtWEBSITE, go to the On Click event and click the three dots and add this code to the sub procedure:
Private Sub txtWEBSITE_Click()
If Nz(Me.URL, "") <> "" Then
Application.FollowHyperlink Me.URL, , True
End If
End Sub
The Me.URL basically just says to use the URL that corresponds to the Website that was clicked. The Nz() function basically just checks to make sure that there is actually a URL that belongs to the website that was clicked.
You can add in your own error handling or validation checks but this is the barebones system that you can use to do what you were looking for.
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#