Hello and thank you for helping!
I created an Access form that has a few button on it that when clicked format a textbox below the buttons (basically different colors). The idea is for employees to not lose track of important issues to discuss while they are on a phone call with clients. I know Access is typically for database-ing if you will, but I don't need it to track anything or update records as there are none.
This works fine on my computer, however when I try to send it via email or put it on a shared drive, the form appears, but the buttons do not work. I even tried copying the database file along with it to the shared drive, but it still did not work. It seems the VBA code that is connected to the button clicks does not work on a shared drive.
The drive itself is mapped to a letter (Y) on my computer, but may be mapped to Z or another letter on employee computers. Would this be the issue? Or better yet, is there a way to isolate the form so it works like a standalone program on each new machine using it?
I am relatively new to Access, what am I missing?
TL;DR Press button on Access form, textbox turns blue. Send to friends, they try to do the same, nothing happens.
As always, thank you for your time!
EDIT: There are two scenarios that can happen when another user tries to access this form:
1) The form appears perfectly, but when they click the buttons, nothing happens, no text box is formatted.
or
2) It throws this error: 'blah blah drive X' is not a valid path. Make sure that the path name is spelled correctly and that you are connected to the server on which the file resides.
Try the UNC (Universal Naming Convention) instead of the drive letter (Y:)
The format is below.
\servername\sharename\path\filename
The servername and sharename information can be found on "My Computer" for Windows
Finally, this was solved! I changed the Form Record source to be the linked table, and it worked. It was still referencing a table on the computer I created it on. Thank you to everyone who helped!
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I've tried putting one on a form, but when I drag a file onto it, I get the circle-and-slash symbol that says I can't.
I've also tried various other control, including MS Forms textboxes, which are supposed to support drag-and-drop. But in every case I get the symbol.
Can anyone explain why?
I have a GUI for AD user creation. One of the parameters I put in is location where the user shall be created. For now I have it in a text box as a simple text (ou=subcontainer,ou=container,dc=domain,dc=com). But this is not very user friendly and I'd like to add a button there to open a browser (like the left panel if you run dsa.msc) to select the path. I found a specially created browser for that, but it's again made of the text strings, which could be confusing for low-skilled technicians. Some of the people supposed to use this script are just skilled enough to create and modify a user in a GUI, but don't have much deeper knowledge and have no idea what that string means, so I'd like to have the classical gui from active directory users and computers. I tried to search classes under system.directoryservices.activedirectory but didn't find anything that could display the dialog
I found what I needed here: https://gist.github.com/supercheetah/b68023f3254dfc9a6497 - posted in comment by CraftyB
I can't find the solution for my problem. So, in my send-mailmessage html body is field that should be redirected to file which is included as attachment in message. How can I create hyperlink to that file in mail, when client opens it?
I don't know if you get my idea. In other words, in message I have attached file, and then there is field which should be a hyperlink to attached file. When client receives message he/she should press the link and then attached file opens.
I searched almost everything in everwhere but can't find a appropriate solution how to solve this.
This isn't really a PowerShell question, since this issue has nothing to do with the functionality of the Send-MailMessage cmdlet.
In any case, the reason you can't find a solution anywhere is that what you're trying to do is impossible. There is no way that a hyperlink in an e-mail message can point to a file attached to that message. Different mail clients on different operating systems store attachments in different locations. Even if you want to assume that all your recipients are running Outlook on Windows, there are different versions of both. Even if you know for a fact that all recipients are running a specific version of Outlook on a specific version of Windows, you're still out of luck. Outlook stores attachments in a subfolder in the Temporary Internet Files in the user's profile that has a randomly generated name. There's no way to inject code into a hyperlink in an email message, so without knowing the exact local file location, you can't link to it.
I suppose if you're really determined you could have the hyperlink point to a web page that runs some complex javascript code that tries to figure out where the attachment is stored, but that's a major undertaking, and would break if the recipient's default browser has javascript disabled.
Which begs the question, why exactly are you trying to do this? So that recipients can click once instead of having to double-click to open the attachment?
I have found that you can make a hyperlink point to a file share that you know the recipients have access to.
To do so:
Simply make each hyperlink point to the specific file and there you have it.
They have to have permissions to access that file share, or there is a much better way now that I haven't thought of.
Oh well, this works for me, for now.
I want to know if this is doable and get some hints about how to achieve this.
I guess at least it would need a confirmation dialog to run the (possibly evil) macro.
I want to produce an OpenOffice document that will upload itself on save to a hardcoded URL.
Is it possible?
What are the rough steps to achieve this?
My guess is:
bind a macro to the save event
have that macro get the current file binary data
have it post this data to a URL
but before researching about how to do this I need to know if this can be done in the first place.
I don't believe you need a macro to do this, instead depending on your OS you can map a FTP or other type of protocol remotely.
For example in windows you can "Map" a FTP as a drive and this would do exactly the same thing as your describing, you open the file from the FTP and upon saving it will then be written to the remote server. FTP is just an example here, there are other platforms you can use.
If you are at all interested in this method then following the instructions below, otherwise disregard.
Mapping a Network Drive in Windows Vista and 7.
Click on Windows start orb and then click on "computer".
Click on map a network drive.
Map a network drive will then open a new dialog box where you can click "connect to a website"
Simply follow that easy to use wizard and click add a new network location (Choose a custom network location)
Type in your FTP address, including username and password.
Finally name your network location to whatever you want.
Just a suggestion, I really don't think you need any macro unless you plan on distributing these files to other people then yes, but they would need to install that macro/plugin on their open office since there is no way to encode the document itself with such features as far as I know.
Looking for some help here. I do a bit of IT support for an organisation of about 200 people. Most of them use a database program called Filemaker Pro 11. Each user should have their own username that is set under the 'edit' menu -> 'preferences'. The edit menu is on the tool bar at the top of the screen, along with file, view, window etc. like as in MS Word for example.
Each user currently has a default username but the organisation wants everyone changed to a unique username. This means me visiting every machine and manually changing it. I was wondering if it would be possible to write a script to prompt users to make this change the next time they open the system? I'm not new to programming but I've never made a script like this before so wouldn't know where to start. Could anyone point me in the right direction?
There is no way to script that change.
The user name you are referring to is the system (Windows or Mac) user name, and not the FileMaker user account. The default for the system user name is whatever they are logged in to their computer as. So, you could give people unique user names at the system level.
The option that is not default allows the user to change their system name. You can create a script that will open preferences for them, but there is no way to actually change it via a FileMaker script.
What you can do: Use the FileMaker account name instead of system name. The account name is much more reliable, follows the user across computers, is more secure, and best of all is (almost) totally scriptable.
I hope this helps. Sorry that what you want isn't possible inside of FileMaker.