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Re: URL Type

From
"K Parker"
Date:
> My interpretation would be that if the
> consumer of the data wants to display
> it as a hyperlink, fine, but that that
> is the job of the application not the
> database

But MS Access is _both_, remember?  The question
came up when migrating from Access talking to
its own local Jet database to Access talking
to pgsql via odbc.  I'm not sure there is a
way to tell Access to consider a particular
text field in a remote ODBC data source to
be a hyperlink...
>


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Re: Re: URL Type

From
Date:
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, K Parker wrote:

> But MS Access is _both_, remember?  The question
> came up when migrating from Access talking to
> its own local Jet database to Access talking
> to pgsql via odbc.  I'm not sure there is a
> way to tell Access to consider a particular
> text field in a remote ODBC data source to
> be a hyperlink...

I don't think there is... unless you create a saved query and have a
calculated field that takes the ODBC data and typecasts it to the
hypertext datatype, if such a thing is possible.

Brett W. McCoy
                                              http://www.chapelperilous.net
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Re: Re: URL Type

From
"Adam Lang"
Date:
*sigh*... I guess I have to break open some of the dusty Access Developer
books... Ya never stop reading in this job, do ya? :) Oh well, if ya did...
it would get way to predictable. :)

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
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From: <bmccoy@chapelperilous.net>
To: "K Parker" <kparker@eudoramail.com>
Cc: <pgsql-general@hub.org>
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 8:15 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Re: URL Type


> On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, K Parker wrote:
>
> > But MS Access is _both_, remember?  The question
> > came up when migrating from Access talking to
> > its own local Jet database to Access talking
> > to pgsql via odbc.  I'm not sure there is a
> > way to tell Access to consider a particular
> > text field in a remote ODBC data source to
> > be a hyperlink...
>
> I don't think there is... unless you create a saved query and have a
> calculated field that takes the ODBC data and typecasts it to the
> hypertext datatype, if such a thing is possible.
>
> Brett W. McCoy
>
http://www.chapelperilous.net
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> Men aren't attracted to me by my mind.  They're attracted by what I
> don't mind...
> -- Gypsy Rose Lee
>