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Access, HTML, Microsoft Word, Outlook, all talking to eachother from a web page?

ANTVGM64ANTVGM64 Registered User regular
Howdy friends. I'm trying to create an html document for my job that will let me do a couple of things.

1. I want icons that link to various DB's we use for various tech support issues. I can link to files and have them open externally just fine, but in a perfect world I'd love to get these files to display within the single document.

2. The Main file I want to display is an editable access DB we use for logging calls. In a perfect world I'd like to be able to login to the DB, display it's Data, and have it act as it normally would, from within this HTML document I'm creating.

3. I'd also like to display a secondary DB that contains a variety of import info, either below or beside this document, but baby-steps first I suppose.

4. I'm using HTML from within MS word because it seems fairly easy to use and create Tables / Frames / Text Boxes, etc.

5. So far I've created "frames" and then linked said frame to the DB I want to open. However it comes up with an encoding error and then a bunch of gibberish after the fact.


So, is this possible? basically I want to display a fully functioning access Databse from within an HTML document. If I can't, it's no big deal. Thanks!

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  • AumniAumni Registered User regular
    edited January 2013
    Why not create a form that interacts with all these databases?

    It's been sometime since I've worked in Access. But if you're working with Access databases an Access form would be a simple way to manage and view multiple databases simultaneously.

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  • SeguerSeguer of the Void Sydney, AustraliaRegistered User regular
    Is this for your own use within the company, or will it be accessible to many people?

    As soon as it's more than you, unless you set this up securely, you can run into a huge host of problems.

  • RamiusRamius Joined: July 19, 2000 Administrator, ClubPA admin
    My suggestion - Learn PHP and then move the data from Access to MySql. This could actually be easier than it sounds thanks to the wealth of good tutorials you'll find online as compared to what you will find for approaching the problem the way you currently are...

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