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How to Change SourceDoc for Unbound Object Control in MS Access 2003 Report

Zones: Access Reports, Access Coding/Macros, Microsoft Programming

Tags: Microsoft, Access, 2003, Changing SourceDoc for Unbound Object Control in Report, MS Access VBA, N/A, N/A

I am developing an application in Access 2003. It has a table that lists various information about clients. One of the fields is a text field that has the path to an attachment for that client. It could be a Word document, a Visio drawing, Adobe document, jpg file, etc. None of these attachements are that big and there is only one per client. I want to print the attachment in a report so I have inserted an unbound object frame control in the report. I have tried to change the SourceDoc property of this control with no success. I have read several Experts Exchange question/answers and Googled this but have not been able to change it. When I create the control I need to specify a document and it seems I can't get rid of the original document no matter what I do.

Thank you in advance for your help.

         
           
           
             Private Sub Detail_Format(Cancel As Integer, FormatCount As Integer)
 
Dim filePath as string
Dim drawingCtl As ObjectFrame
Set drawingCtl = Me!OLEUnbound29
 
' I will reference the field contents to get the filePath but for
' now I am just hard coding it in to try to get it to work. 
filePath = "C:\NetworkDiagrams\Diagram08.vsd"
 
drawingCtl.OLETypeAllowed = acOLELinked
drawingCtl.Class = "Visio.Drawing.11"
drawingCtl.SourceDoc = filePath
' This next statement produces an error 
' Without this statement nothing happens at all
drawingCtl.Action = acOLECreateLink
           
         

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Question Asked By: LynnBertrand

Solution Provided By: harfang

Participating Experts: 2

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Comment by LynnBertrand

Thank you to you both. I wish Microsoft would let me do what I originally wanted to!

Comment by boag2000

;-)

Comment by boag2000

LynnBertrand ,

One final note:

Access 2007 has a new "attachment" datatype.
My guess is that this new data type is supposed to address some of the short falls of OLE Fields.
I have 2007 at work but have not tried this out yet.
As Allen Browne states (http://allenbrowne.com/Access2007.html#Mixed) using these fields could easily push you to the 2 gb limit fairly quickly.
One other thing that is unclear is whether or not this new datatype has, or will have, a corresponding datatype in SQL server (or MySql)

I'll play around with it next week to see how these attachments:
-Are activated.
-Display on Forms and Reports.
-Affect overall database performance.

JeffCoachman

Comment by harfang

> I wish Microsoft would let me do what I originally wanted to!

Actually, the idea to combine several types of documents in a single report is more Adobe's Acrobat niche, isn't it? But frankly, I can't see a really good solution to what you are trying to do. What if one document needs three pages, and the next is just a logo? Manually combining and laying out the material will always look much better...

Anyway, success with your project!
(°v°)

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