[mapguide-users] Opening a URL from a layer

[jamesdudden]

Thankyou for the advice but I need to open Access really. The site I am
building will be used by say 20 people all of which will have Access
installed already. Is this possible? How? Best way to do this?

Regards

James Dudden



James Card wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:18:25 -0700, jamesdudden  
> <jamesdudden at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Is there a way to click on the individual line to open Access and make  
>> the whole record available? The thought then being to use a script in  
>> Access to go straight to that record.
> 
> What you probably should do is join that Access table to your MapGuide  
> feature source and just let the MapGuide interface display the records  
>  from the Access table directly. It would be very messy and difficult to  
> try to script a link directly back to the .MDB file, and would only work  
> for someone who has Access installed on their local machine.
> 
> In the MapGuide Studio help files look at these sections:
> 
> "Connecting to an ODBC Database"
> "Using Feature Joins"
> "Specifying the Properties to Display in the Viewer"
> 
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