Draw a picture on a form

[mikebrewer]

Hey all,

I have a dilemma I've had a bunch of trouble finding an answer to. We use an in-house Microsoft Access database that I designed and created to input a bunch of information. One of the things I'd like my users to be able to do is input a "job sheet" that has information and a drawing for directions.

Right now, they have a Word template that they fill out, print, draw the picture on the bottom (again, this is for directions to our construction areas), scan that back in and then email it. If I could provide them a way to just draw the picture in the first place, I could automate the rest of it for them.

I can not seem to find anything that would allow me to do such a thing. I'd like to have a Microsoft Paint link or object that they could use right in the form but I haven't found anything too friendly yet.

Any suggestions would be great!

Thanks!

 

[Minty]

I'm not aware of anything you can actually draw in with Access, you could create and link a jpg or similar to the job record and then include that in a report pdf file that is then emailed directly from access?

 

[mikebrewer]

I had to think of it a different way. I wanted to bring everything into access and work on things from one spot. What I think I will do is just copy a blank image when the users create a new record and then call paint to open that image so they can edit it and save. Then when they mail the report, it will just call the copied image for the source of the image in the report. Just had to get out of my own way!