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IC_Clearly - 04 Jul 2007 05:00 GMT

I want to have Access pull up a web page and fill out a form on a web page
from certain data in the db. Can someone point me in a direction of how to
do this? Is there a utility that can do this?

Thanks.

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Daniel - 04 Jul 2007 15:00 GMT

I asked that very question about 2 wks ago, sadly from what I've been told it
cannot be done.

If ever you discover a way, please post your solution (I will do the same).

Daniel P

> I want to have Access pull up a web page and fill out a form on a web page
> from certain data in the db. Can someone point me in a direction of how to
> do this? Is there a utility that can do this?
>
> Thanks.

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IC_Clearly - 04 Jul 2007 20:01 GMT

Daniel,

I will post if I find something. I can't believe no one has done this! I
have had discussion with a fairly experienced Access programmer and he says
that he can do it using the send key function. But, if there is a package
that already does it, I would prefer to go that route as opposed to
developing from scratch.

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Douglas J. Steele - 04 Jul 2007 20:22 GMT

I question how experienced that developer is, since SendKey is not a
reliable approach for anything. It's too easy for focus to get shifted while
the code is running, meaning that whatever keystrokes are being sent will
not end up where you want them.

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IC_Clearly - 06 Jul 2007 22:27 GMT

Doug,

What would you recommend as an alternative??

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Douglas J. Steele - 07 Jul 2007 12:08 GMT

In another thread on this topic which Daniel started elsewhere in these
forums, I suggested that it might be possible to use the Browser control to
put the web page on a form, and then use the IE DOM to address the
individual fields on that form (although I admitted that I haven't tried it
myself)

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IC_Clearly - 07 Jul 2007 14:53 GMT

Thanks much. I'll see what I can come up with.

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