Gee, thanks again, Sheri! I will take a peek. Maybe that would be less complicated.
--- In [email protected], "Sheri" <sheri...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "brother.gabriel" <brgabriel@> wrote: > > > > I was actually looking at those. I am trying to get information > > out of a M$ Access database so I can use it. So far I have been > > exporting one of the forms which I created in the database and > > then regexing it with NoteTab to create an initial ini file that > > I could work with using PP. Then I ran into the problem where I > > need to access the data from two years at once, so it messed up > > my ini scheme. I don't know anything about xml, really, except > > that one can use "categories" and "subcategories". I have thought > > about using an ini file for each year, which is nice, but I don't > > have any way to specify the year automatically when I export it > > from Acess. The most efficient thing to do would be to simply > > access the database itself using PP, but I don't think PP's > > database plugins will do that - don't they only use OBDC? Is this > > something I could do with the COM plugin? > > If the data is in Access, might be best to read it from Access. > > Do you have the VBA reference (chm help file) for your version of MS Access? > For example the one for Access 2003 is here: > <http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0447c5a0-5e58-4e69-b90e-c42ec7dbf887&displaylang=en> > > There are similar downloads for Word and Excel. I've been able to extrapolate > info from those help files to access Word and Excel data in Powerpro scripts. > I have been using the soon-to-be-released version .72 of the com plugin. > > Regards, > Sheri >
