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Scraping from a Lotus notes form to an Access table

OK...I'm trying to extract information from a Lotus Notus form and write it into an access database
for storage for reporting.  For example.... I have a lotus notes form called CreditScore  
fields txtloannumber
      txtcustomer
      txtscore
      txtapprover

I would like to have this information written into an access table upon hitting a button on a form within
Access

 Form Name:  FRMCreditscore
 fields  txtloannumber
         txtcustomer
         txtscore
         txtapprover

  button: btnscrape

I'm hoping you could assist me with the coding based on the above information.  Your assistance is greatly
appreciated.  Thanks
         
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I would just use an ODBC driver and then you can kick off an access query that uses the driver.  That would be the easiest solution.  There's also solutions that don't require ODBC:

http://www.advisor.com/Articles.nsf/aid/KOCHD24
http://www.acc-technology.com/ntwiz.htm
Following is some code that might help you:

Let me know if you have any questions,

Melissa
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Uselsx "*LSXODBC"
Sub Click( Source as Button)
Dim workspace as New NotesUIWorkspace
Dim doc as NotesDocument
 
Dim con As New ODBCConnection
Dim qry As New ODBCQuery
Dim result As New ODBCResultSet
     
On Error Goto errorHandler
     

'get a handle to the current document
Set doc = workspace.CurrentDocument

'get a handle to the Access table
Set qry.Connection = con
Set result.Query = qry
     
'replace in quotes the name of the ODBC data source you have set up
con.ConnectTo("AccessDB")

'get a handle to the table you want to write to....replace table with the correct name
qry.SQL = "SELECT * FROM Table"
result.Execute
     
'add a row to the access table
result.AddRow

'add the values to the table    
Call result.SetValue("txtcustomer", doc.txtcustomer(0))
Call result.SetValue("txtscore", doc.txtscore(0))
Call result.SetValue("txtapprover", doc.txtapprover(0))

'update the table
result.UpdateRow

'close the table
result.Close(DB_CLOSE)

'close the ODBC connection
con.Disconnect
Exit Sub

errorHandler:
Messagebox result.GetExtendedErrorMessage,, result.GetErrorMessage
Exit Sub
End Sub
Whoops!

replace the line:
Set document = workspace.CurrentDocument
with
Set document = workspace.CurrentDocument.document

Sorry!

Melissa
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Thanks melbor1....Looks good...however...I need to code in acccess to pull info from Lotus Notes....Any chance you can help me there.  Thanks for your assistance.
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Sorry it has taken longer than expected to get back to you.  Thanks for the help.. The reference book should help me accomplish what I'm trying to do.