Linking TXT files

[obaluba]

I know its possible to give a link to an image and it being displayed in a table, what i would like to do is give a link to a .txt file and link that so it is displayed in the table?

thanks in advance

 

[KenReay]

Hi

You can link to a txt file and treat it as a (non updatable) table.

You can make a hyperlink to it so that it opens in notepad when you click it

If it is less that 64kb, you could import it into a memo field of a table

You can read a text file directly in Access Regards

Ken Reay
Freelance Solutions Developer
Boldon Information Systems Ltd
Website needs upgrading, but for now -

http://www.kenneth.reay.btinternet.co.uk

UK

 

[TheRealDeal]

I believe that I have had your same issue at one time. I was needing to display a BMP for each record in my table. These BMPs were unique logos being printed for all 1200 an some odd customers. Sorry for being long winded; the easiest thing I found was to create a Text field representing the Directory and another the FileName. Next thing I did was in a Form I dropped a Image control and set the Picture to the !Dir & !FileName; the Picture Type to Linked then refreshed with each record movement.

By following this methodology, I was able to place the image on reports as well.