Using Visio (HTML) to Hyperlink to an Access Database

[manix]

HI All,

I have scoured the net and these forums looking for the answer but cannot find a good solution.

I am producing flow charts in Visio, and then saving them as HTML documents for use on our Intranet. Within the Visio flow diagrams I am using Hyperlinks on various shapes and text, to enable the viewer to open various other documents in various other applications. This seems to work fine in my web browser for normal office documents, like word and excel, but I need to be able to do it for MS Access databases too! Because the web browser tries to open it in the browser itself, the database won't open and I just get the normal "Web Page Could not be found" screen.

Another useful feature would be to be able to open to a number of different specific forms from a database, depending on which hyperlink is clicked. I assume this is not possible as you only seem to be able to define on page to be displayed upon opening the DB. Am I correct?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

There are "viewers" for Word and Excel documents available through web links. I do not recall that such a product exists for Access. That is why Access won't open. No viewer. I have no solution. Other forum members might know of a 3rd-party product. But if the DB in question wants to impose security in order to open it, that's another "gotcha" to trip over.

 

[manix]

There are "viewers" for Word and Excel documents available through web links. I do not recall that such a product exists for Access. That is why Access won't open. No viewer. I have no solution. Other forum members might know of a 3rd-party product. But if the DB in question wants to impose security in order to open it, that's another "gotcha" to trip over.

Thanks Doc Man, I did think that there would be a problem with IE (or any other browser for that matter) having issues with viewers. The only other answer would be to implement any forms that I want linked in Infopath. This would allow me to obtain any data that a user inputs into a form and automatically upload it into a database. Other than that it would be abandon the Intranet idea and have my charts just in a netwroked folderwith links to files on the same network drive.

I will continue my quest and ensure I let you all know how I eventually figure it out!