open a database using HTML link

[Puppet_Sock]

So what I'm trying to do is, have a central location to collect links
to a bunch of company documents and references and stuff, so every
employee can just look there to find where everything is.

And what I thought was, an HTML web page, visible over the LAN, with
links to all the stuff.

One of the things is a MS Access database. And putting a link like
this

<a href="[path][databasename].accdb">link text</a>

works ok. It opens the databse. (Of course [path] and [databasename]
are replaced with the full thing.)

But I want to pass the database file a parameter so that it can
process the parameter and open at the correct record. I can do the
database part. How to get the parameter into the link? Thoughts? I
can't seem to get this to pass anything to the /cmd.

 

[Douglas J Steele]

/cmd must be passed as a parameter to msaccess.exe. You cannot use it simply
with a hyperlink to the .accdb file.

"Puppet_Sock" wrote in message

So what I'm trying to do is, have a central location to collect links
to a bunch of company documents and references and stuff, so every
employee can just look there to find where everything is.

And what I thought was, an HTML web page, visible over the LAN, with
links to all the stuff.

One of the things is a MS Access database. And putting a link like
this

<a href="[path][databasename].accdb">link text</a>

works ok. It opens the databse. (Of course [path] and [databasename]
are replaced with the full thing.)

But I want to pass the database file a parameter so that it can
process the parameter and open at the correct record. I can do the
database part. How to get the parameter into the link? Thoughts? I
can't seem to get this to pass anything to the /cmd.