Good morning!
No matter what, there will always be at least one feature that you liked
better in another product.
That is clear.
People would look at me funny if I said that I refused to use any MS
Office product because they do not support exporting to a PDF file like
OpenOffice.org has supported for a long time. At least with OOo, you are
able to create an RFE (Request For Enhancement).
I had been thinking about waiting for the next release until the OP brought
the issue up.
I poked around the data types and I could not find anything resembling
what you desire. This sounds like a useful thing to have. It is nothing
more than a text field with special properites. You can probably use a
Pattern Field. What sort of URLs did you want to recognize?
For simplicity, I have photos, word processing docs, etc. (call 'em FILES)
living on one computer's hard drive and the database table on a second
computer's drive. The database table has a series of columns that contain
data about the various files.
I would like to be able to have a field in a database table on the second
computer that contains the path to the FILES on the first computer.
Clicking on the field would "run" the file. That is to say that a jpg file
would open a viewer, a mpg file would open a media player, etc. This strikes
me as being somewhat similar to something people might use at work: a
personnel file, names, addresses, etc and a photo of the individual.
Embedding the files (OLE, I think) under Access really bloated the table
size, and cutting and pasting the path from a text field in the table into a
Explorer bar just seems so painful.
What special behavior does a URL field have in Access? A URL field is NOT
a valid SQL type of which I am aware, so it is nothing more than a special
behavior when used in a form.
I hope that defines my issue a bit (it is somewhat ramblin'...I just woke
up!)
Thanks for listening.
Thanks,
Rob
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