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#
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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
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 an Access 2010 form with a subform that is displayed in datasheet view. The users want to be able to select and copy the rows from the subform and when they paste into Excel they want the table header to be the value from the main form. Currently it just uses the name of the subform. Is there a way to set this to something else?
Here is what currently shows up in Excel after I paste the copied grid. What I want to have displayed instead of fsubFYTBSummary is a field from the parent record of the form that invoked the subfrom. Is there a way to set this?
There is no way. The copied name is the name of the source object, not the subform control (that would be changeable).
Actually I'm surprised you see this name in Excel. I only see it when pasting a grid to Word or an Email, where the HTML clipboard format is used. The name is the table caption.
You can use http://freeclipboardviewer.com/ (portable) to see the various formats of clipboard contents.
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'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.