Re: URL Type

Started by K Parkerover 25 years ago3 messagesgeneral
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#1K Parker
kparker@eudoramail.com

My interpretation would be that if the
consumer of the data wants to display
it as a hyperlink, fine, but that that
is the job of the application not the
database

But MS Access is _both_, remember? The question
came up when migrating from Access talking to
its own local Jet database to Access talking
to pgsql via odbc. I'm not sure there is a
way to tell Access to consider a particular
text field in a remote ODBC data source to
be a hyperlink...

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#2Brett W. McCoy
bmccoy@chapelperilous.net
In reply to: K Parker (#1)
Re: Re: URL Type

On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, K Parker wrote:

But MS Access is _both_, remember? The question
came up when migrating from Access talking to
its own local Jet database to Access talking
to pgsql via odbc. I'm not sure there is a
way to tell Access to consider a particular
text field in a remote ODBC data source to
be a hyperlink...

I don't think there is... unless you create a saved query and have a
calculated field that takes the ODBC data and typecasts it to the
hypertext datatype, if such a thing is possible.

Brett W. McCoy
http://www.chapelperilous.net
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#3Adam Lang
aalang@rutgersinsurance.com
In reply to: Brett W. McCoy (#2)
Re: Re: URL Type

*sigh*... I guess I have to break open some of the dusty Access Developer
books... Ya never stop reading in this job, do ya? :) Oh well, if ya did...
it would get way to predictable. :)

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
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From: <bmccoy@chapelperilous.net>
To: "K Parker" <kparker@eudoramail.com>
Cc: <pgsql-general@hub.org>
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 8:15 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Re: URL Type

On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, K Parker wrote:

But MS Access is _both_, remember? The question
came up when migrating from Access talking to
its own local Jet database to Access talking
to pgsql via odbc. I'm not sure there is a
way to tell Access to consider a particular
text field in a remote ODBC data source to
be a hyperlink...

I don't think there is... unless you create a saved query and have a
calculated field that takes the ODBC data and typecasts it to the
hypertext datatype, if such a thing is possible.

Brett W. McCoy

http://www.chapelperilous.net

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