Thanks Alex, I had not planned on getting into macros just yet but maybe this is as good a time as any. I will work on it and see how far I get.
Paddy On 8 July 2014 21:41, Alexander Thurgood <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 06/07/2014 16:36, Pat Brown a écrit : > > Hi Pat, > > > > I do not see anything like this in Base. Is it possible to create such a > > field and could someone please point me to where I could find > instructions > > on how to do so? > > 1) There is no such thing in LO Base as a default clickable URL field > definition option. > > 2) If you want similar functionality to what Access provides with regard > to clickable URLs, you have to program it via macros, and use the > VARCHAR_IGNORECASE field type. > > An example of taking a character string pointing to a file and opening > it with another application (in the case below, a PDF) : > > > https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4778&p=29999#p25810 > > > > > Alex > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
