linking to DB with html

[pungentSapling]

**RESOLVED**linking to DB with html

I want to put a link on a web -page that will open an access database....This is on an intranet environment...and security for the database is not a major concern.

I tried it like this
----HTML-----snippit------------------------
<a href ="z:\myDB.dbl">click</a>
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but it gets a page not found message

this format works with msWord and Powerpt. Doese it not work with access?

any sugestions on what I should do?

I would like to have access start up and run the datbase, rather than exporting the whole thing to HTML......


thanks

 

[charityg]

What is a dbl? Have you tried linking to the mdb?

 

[pungentSapling]

my database is saved as .dbl
I'm not sure why though.....it opens fine when using access.
maybe this is why it wont open from hyperlink....?

 

[charityg]

I think dbl might be a "Database Link"? Click on the properties of the dbl file (right click then properties) and see if there is a target for the dbl file.

 

[pungentSapling]

never mind........ the problem was... I'm an idiot!


I must have saved the data base as Service.dbl.mdb somehow and my file list was not showing "Known Extensions" so ithought it was .dbl Not Thinking.

It works fine


sorry to waste yer Time.
cheers

 

[pungentSapling]

how come I can't change the subject line of my thread on the >General page of this forum....
I would like to change it so it says **RESOLVED**blah,blah ....

 

[charityg]

resolved

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