I have an Access table that has a hyperlink field, with the records being a website link, to look up the UPS Worldship shipment tracking#. My problem is that even though the text has blue colored font, the link doesn’t launch and open the web browser when I click on the field.
originally the hyperlink did work, when I created the table and changed the field properties from “text” to “hyperlink”, but once I ran a delete query and an append query (in order to refresh the data), the link no longer functioned, even though the field has hyperlink properties.
Here is an example of my hyperlink record that I want the browser to launch: http://wwwapps.ups.com/WebTracking/processInputRequest?sort_by=status&tracknums_displayed=1&TypeOfInquiryNumber=T&loc=en_us&InquiryNumber1=1Z1467826772975386&track.x=0&track.y=0
Please advise what I need to do in order to make the hyperlink work, so the user doesn’t have to manually copy and paste the link into a web browser.
Thank you very much in advance
Nathaniel, Access 2003
I don't understand what you mean. I need to create an Access app that would be used throughout the day in order to track UPS packages. Ideally the table would provide a link, so that the user doesnt have to manually copy and paste the tracking number into the UPS website. Please advise if this is feasible without VBA.
I do not like hyperlink fields, they are difficult to edit and somewhat confusing for the user. I prefer to use a click event with FollowHyperlink. However, if you must use hyperlink fields, they have to have this format to work:
Descriptive text#link#
So
Stackoverflow#http://stackoverflow.com#
http://stackoverflow.com#http://stackoverflow.com#
Email#mailto:mail#example.com#
I imagine you have lost the link - that is, the bit between the hash signs.
Try going back to the table with the record and change the data type to short text. Close and reopen the table and switch the data type back to hyperlink. If the text is a valid webpage link it should work without any extra coding.
Good luck!
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There's a web page with loads of contact info that I would like to copy to my clipboard and paste into an excel doc. The problem is that in order to display the info (phone, email, title, company, etc...) you have to click on the contact name and then a little blurb comes up (similar to a business card) that shows all info. Thus, I am unable to select all and copy and would have to do this one by one. There are thousands of contacts, so obviously this would be impractical. The hyperlink does not change when I click the blurb.
I'm wondering if there's a workaround to this - is there a program I can use that can extract the info from all of these small blurb-type pop ups that come from one page?
Any help is appreciated.
There is no systematic way to crawl web pages, as it depends on how it was developped.
But you can try this :
Click on one such pop-up.
With the "dev tools" of your browser, inspect it and find anything you can use to identify this pop-up (for instance it may have a certain class or name).
Then, look for this class (or name) in the source code : all the other pop-ups may be there.
If so, you can do some text parsing to get the info you want.
Finally, you can use something like "search and replace" in a text editor to display the result in an Excel-friendly way.
When users request a password reset, they get an email with a link to generate a password reset code. This link is valid for 24 hours and can be re-used within the 24 hours to generate a new code if the first is lost or forgotten. When users double click the link, two codes are getting generated, leading to user confusion about which to use (the second code invalidates the first code with the way it has been developed).
Since the link in the email is just an html a tag, I'm not sure how I can keep users from double clicking the link.
This sounds like you're facing the XY problem. Your actual issue is that users get confused by visits in a quick succession causing a code that was just generated to be invalid, rather than the fact that the link can be clicked twice.
From a security point of view, these kind of links should really be single-use, and the user should request a new e-mail if they want to perform the action again. Assuming this is something you're forced to do, I believe the best compromise would be to limit code generation to a time frame, so visits within, let's say, 5-10 seconds would result in the same code being shown to the user, based on the server's time.
Implementing any CSS based solution for this that'd work across every e-mail client out there is challenging enough (if at all possible), and I doubt any self-respecting e-mail client is going to let you run any sort of JavaScript to intercept the event.
The following works in a modern browser on an actual web page, but this is not just a bad idea, it's also probably not going to work if you try to use it in an e-mail. I'm providing it here just for the sake of completeness, showing that it's somewhat possible, but please do not rely on this to fix the underlying issue.
<style>a:focus { pointer-events: none }</style>
<p>This is some text, here's a link you can't double click by the way.</p>
I have access a webpage with a list of several hyperlinks, each of which are unique. This is it:
webpage I have access to that lists names from top to bottom. Each name is unique and is a hyperlink. I would like to click on these hyperlinks one by one and extract info from the resulting webpage.
Say I click the first name, say Adam, it then brings me to the following webpage:
alt:this is a page of the user's profile and includes info such as name, email status and more
My goal is to create a program that clicks the name at the top, and then takes the email address and puts it in an excel spreadsheet on my local machine. And then goes back to the original page, clicks on the name directly below the name that was previously clicked on, and then takes this names resulting email and throws it in the spreadsheet.
for those looking at the pictures, i would like to click on 'Adam' and then put his email into a spreadsheet, then go back, and then click on 'Adrian' and then put his email into a spreadsheet, and so on and so forth down the list.
What do I need to do/learn to create a tool that will do this for me?
I know a bit of Java and a tiny bit of html. I've been trying to look for a solution but the most I can get is excel vba to click on the first name, but not much more. Even if I got the vba to click on all the names, it seems I would have to type in an instruction for the vba to find each unique name, and I dont see much point in doing that since its probably faster to just do this manually then.
As i'm not a programmer (but would like to be soon :)) I have had some trouble asking this question since I don't know any technical terms.
Any thoughts/advice on how to do this?
With javascript and a little php you could make this happen. Since it appears this is something running in the browser it would probably be your best bet.
Make your program click links js has the ability to activate links. You could
click on body load
the first link on the page,
then have a counter that counts each time you click a link.
`Find out how many links there are in the document:`
var x = document.links.length;`
`Get the URL of the first link (index 0) in the document:`
`var x = document.links[0].href;`
Click the link you want to click
$(function(){
$('#myLink').trigger('click');
})
now that your on the next page you need to grab the email address that is on this page. If you know the css just grab the string that is in the element. at this point you can use javascript to go back to the previous page.
<button onclick="goBack()">Go Back</button>
Now you are on the original page. Your counter is one number higher. Use the counter to click the next link and your program will repeat the process pushing the new email to your array.
var fruits = ["Banana", "Orange", "Apple", "Mango"];
fruits.push("Kiwi");
once the program runs out of links to click or hits the limit of your counter you will need to create a txt file with javascript. write your array to the file with PHP. You can do this with an ajax call.
make an AJAX call to your php file passing the array. php can then write to the file.
Here is an example of making a text file and writing to it with javascript
Following this logic you can fairly easy make an application that activates the links in order of a page, pushes the email address to an array as a string. Goes back to the previous page and continues the process till you have all the links. At this point your program will write all the data in the array to a file.
I just started working with html, and I am creating balloon description templates for Google Earth. I am creating site logs for gps locations around the world, and these sites get updated every now and then with a new receiver or antenna.
I have a table set up with all the information about the equipment we have at these sites, and I want to be able to change values in the table when the equipment is changed.
Right now the only way to do that is to go into the html code and find the specific value you need to change and then save the new html code. This works, but it would be nice if I could edit the values without having to go into the code. I know you can do contenteditable=true and then have some text you can edit, but when you refresh the page it goes back to the orignal text.
My question is if there is a way to edit the html code permanently without actually going through all the lines of code to find the one thing you want to change. If this cannot be done, or if my question makes no sense let me know. I probably just need to work with this stuff for more than a week.
I want to copy (populated) data, say a "company" name from a form, to another form, and/or web page. This (populated) data field changes, based on what the client enters, however, the resulting data is always a "company".
Is there code I can paste into my HTML document to do this?
To better clarify what I want to do, please see as follows:
("To: ____")
This is on the top half of my web page in a word document contained in a form.
("Bandera") is the company name.
This is on the bottom half of my page in a word document contained in another form.
All I want to do is copy the "company" name (in this case Bandera) to the "To:___" on that form.
I only mentioned the fact that the company name "Bandera" changes, in case this has any affect on the issue.
I am not a programmer and do not know any languages, so I am looking for the easiest way (a code I can paste into my HTML document) to accomplish this.
Thank you,
Michael
This doesn't look like a problem with a simple cut and paste solution. Since you haven't specified what technologies you're using, i'll keep it generic. Two options that I see are:
Have the user submit the form, take the entered value on the server side and set it as a value/default in the resulting (your other) form that you return.
If you're just looking to populate another form on the same page, you can hook the onblur/onchange event of the input control with javascript and populate the value of a second form using something like the dom/javascript function GetElementById or GetElementByName.
Hope this helps point you in a useful direction.
It sounds like you are referring to a data-bound fields?
I am assuming further that the Company is populated from a database as an ID/Name hash/datatable.
If you are using ASP.Net, there a few options of which some are: storing your key for the data-bound field in Session, moving it across to another page using inline variables, or storing the selected Id against a user details table, and retrieving the ID on the other web-page.