Help-Hyperlink to Access Data Base Won't Work

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When I click on the Access Data Base link on a web page I created, I am asked
if I want to save this document. How can I click on this link and just have
the data base open so that it may be viewed? Please help. Thanks.
 
You can't. You can do one of two things 1) zip the file and let people
download it from your site or 2) create some ASP pages so folks can query
your database.

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When I click on the Access Data Base link on a web page I created, I am
asked
if I want to save this document. How can I click on this link and just
have
the data base open so that it may be viewed? Please help. Thanks.
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Bluebayou,
If someone doesn't have an answer off the top of their heads your going to
have to post a URL so we can see exactly how you coded this.

Normally "the link to the database" is to a website page that includes
something called an "html form" which in turn calls the application/connects
to the database....
 
You can't merely link to a Access database; you need to create ASP pages to
enable a browser to open the file and display the data.

If you do want it as a download, compress (zip) the file, and link to the
*.zip. However, the user would need Access (or another utility) to view
the *.mdb file. (not everyone would have it).
 
bluebayou said:
When I click on the Access Data Base link on a web page I created, I am
asked
if I want to save this document. How can I click on this link and just
have
the data base open so that it may be viewed? Please help. Thanks.
Click to expand...
 
bluebayou said:
When I click on the Access Data Base link on a web page I created, I am
asked
if I want to save this document. How can I click on this link and just
have
the data base open so that it may be viewed? Please help. Thanks.
Click to expand...
 
Unfortunately it is not as simple as linking to the file for Access
databases for viewing them; you would need to create active server pages
(ASP) to allow a browser to display the data/query the database.

Frontpage allows you to do this. (See help for "Database Results" and/or
"Database Interface Wizard").

It doesn't work in the same way as you can view a MS Word file or MS Excel
file from the web (either through the parent application or the word/excel
viewers).
 
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