Thanks Alex, I had not planned on getting into macros just yet but maybe this is as good a time as any. I will work on it and see how far I get. Paddy On 8 July 2014 21:41, Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com> wrote:
Le 06/07/2014 16:36, Pat Brown a écrit : Hi Pat,I do not see anything like this in Base. Is it possible to create such a field and could someone please point me to where I could findinstructionson how to do so?1) There is no such thing in LO Base as a default clickable URL field definition option. 2) If you want similar functionality to what Access provides with regard to clickable URLs, you have to program it via macros, and use the VARCHAR_IGNORECASE field type. An example of taking a character string pointing to a file and opening it with another application (in the case below, a PDF) : https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4778&p=29999#p25810 Alex -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
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