[mso] Re: Access 2002: Relative Table Links?
- From: Cathy.Evans@xxxxxxxxx
- To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 09:42:55 -0400
Thanks, I have seen some things on writing to the custom properties of the
word doc, I haven't really had much success with adapting any of the
samples, though I have not been able to spend the time needed these past
few weeks on getting this right. Ideally I want to have several options
once a user has completed basic vendor/purchase data for them to be able to
open up a purchase or contract form with that basic data completed. I'm
almost leaning towards converting the word docs to access forms, I
converted one and it works pretty well.
Are you saying you want the data source to be automatically linked when a
new user/system opens one of the merge templates? I don't think I had a
good understanding when I first replied. Is your mail merge doc connected
directly to the access database or via ODBC? Here is a fascinating
discussion of ODBC/dsn_less connections, with sample database and many good
links including the 2nd below:
http://www.utteraccess.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=402012&page
=&view=&sb=5&o=&fpart=all&vc=1
http://www.able-consulting.com/MDAC/ADO/Connection/ODBC_DSNLess.htm#ODBCDriverForMySQL
We also purchased several licenses and are testing ActiveDocs (
http://www.keylogix.com/), it has a data manager that handles the data
sources. They also have a set up where you can put your forms on your web
server or theirs and the users access the forms through the web. They are
linked to your main data source, and the user goes through the queries to
gather their data, then once they finish the merge, it opens a word
document.
hth, Cathy
"Ray Blake"
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Thanks, Cathy, I'm running similar code now.
There are 2 easy ways to move data from the form to the doc - one way
for up to a dozen or so fields and another for more. First, for a small
number of fields, I would use code behind the form to write values to
custom properties of the Word doc, which would contain fields which
disply the appropriate custom properties in the appropriate places.
With more fields than that, I'd normally do a mail merge. I'd use a
maketable query, using a criterion to restrict it to the current record
selected on the form ('ID=frmMain!ID') and I'd have the DOT file linked
to the output table of this query as the merge recordsource. And here is
my issue, because I'd like to be able to automate that linking from the
Word end. It's easy to do from the Access end a number of ways - I put
the DOTs in the user's default template path, for example, and that's
where my Access code looks for them. But I still find myslef manually
linking the templates whenever I install a system with this
architecture, and I'd like a reliable way of getting Word to do this
itself, or getting Access to manipulate the DOTs appropriately.
Ray
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