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Printing clip art on a name tag project using Microsoft Access 200
I am currently working on a project using Microsoft Access 2003 to print
"name tag" type labels for a holiday dinner dance. I wanted to use clip art images (jpeg or bmp?) to reflect a variety of dinner entrees for each row in the Access database table, i.e., each guest. Each guest will have his or her dinner entree selection printed on his name tag in the form of a clip art image to visually show the banquet wait staff which of 3 possible entrees to serve to each person sitting at any given table in the ballroom. We have tried the technique of storing the selected clip art images previously downloaded from the Internet in a folder within the Shared Documents of our hard disk. We then used an Access Update Query to conditionally preload the variable file name of the respective stored clip art image (hyperlink?) into a database field name for each row in our Access database. We used the design grid for the "name tag label" report to reference the database field name earlier preloaded with what we thought was the path or link to the Update Query preloaded clip art hard disk location. When we ran the report the hyperlink/file name appears but we did not see the expected clip art image. When we double click on the respective clip art file name stored in the Shared Documents folder on our hard disk we do get immediate retrieval of the clip art image on the computer screen. Do these symptoms indicate that (1) we do not have the Access database field name preloaded with the proper information to accomodate linking/pathing to the hard disk stored clip art image location or (2) are we using an improper file type for Microsoft Access 2003 to display clip art hyperlinks properly? The report control object for the database field name to display the clip art image refects "Unbounded" which may also be the potential source of our problem? Thanks in advance for any input to solve this this frustrating problem. |
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Store the clip art in a table that has an ID number associated with each OLE object (clip art.)
Add an entree number in the guest table. Write a similar query to this one: SELECT Guest.Number, Guest.Name, Guest.[clipart#], Entree.Clipartpict FROM Guest LEFT JOIN Entree ON Guest.[clipart#] = Entree.[clipart#]; Base your card report on this query. Quote:
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