I am a novice really - I can create a table and design a form in access but thats about it - how would i integrate this into the database? Thank you so much!
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Browse All TopicsI am going to build a simple access 2007 contact database with basic name, address and telephone number fields. This is to be used by some temps to contact the people by phone. I am going to use Skype for the phone calls and want to know if there is a way to have a button on the datbase that the temp woudl press and it would automatically call the telephone number for the displayed record using Skype?
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<<I am a novice really - I can create a table and design a form in access but thats about it - how would i integrate this into the database? Thank you so much!>>
No coding experience then? While not exactly simple, it's not all that difficult either, but there is nothing built-in to do what you want, so it means developing and coding a solution.
Time is a little short over here at the moment or I'd take some and code up a sample for this, which you could more or less drop in, but it still means you'd need to do some coding to get it to work.
Let's wait just a bit and see if someone else jumps in. Everyone on the assistance request list got pinged to look at this, so there will be quite a few eyes on this.
Do you have a time frame on this or is it something that is going to be just a "nice to have" at some point? I'm thinking if no one else responds in a couple of days, I might be able to free up some time to do the sample.
JimD.
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by: JDettmanPosted on 2009-07-14 at 04:48:34ID: 24848305
Interesting question. I haven't done this myself, but a quick check of the Skype web site shows that it has a developer portal:
https://developer.s kype.com
On the download page (https://developer.skype.c om/Downloa d), you'd want the COM wrapper, which you could then add into Access as a reference.
There are VB programming examples here:
https://developer.sky pe.com/Doc s/Examples #head-d8c9 553367e685 dfa81a1076 ecddab67c6 864f8d
and in the online examples, I found this VB example (see attached code). That should work fine in VBA.
So it certainly looks quite doable. You didn't indicate your level of expertise, so I'm going to stop here for the moment. If you need more, let me know.
JimD.
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