Question : Drag and drop files in ms access form to be stored sepratly

Hi guys,

I have a ms access database that were I i want to store several files. if and or when a customer calls I commonly make a smal report of the call. When the cutomer is connected to the callcenter I recieve an email with a report of the call made. I oftenly recieve emails. in msg, pdf or excell and would like to store these files by simply selecting the customer in my database then select the file and drag it to a place on my form. The file schould then be stored in a folder using the customer ID as the foldername. so I would like to make a explorer view in my access form that is directed to the foldername of that specific customer. Does anyone have some code or example mdb file ?

Answer : Drag and drop files in ms access form to be stored sepratly

Access doesn't support drag and drop natively ... you can add controls to Access which may support drag and drop, but you cannot, for example, drag an Email onto an Access form and have it recognize this event.

That said, you can drop some things into a Table field, if it's a memo or text field, but you'll only get portions of the drop ... for example, if I drop my most recent spam email about Oprah's Superfood, I get this:

From      Subject      Received      Size      Categories      
offers      [SPAM-LOW] Oprahs Superfood of the year!      Thu 2:50 PM      7 KB      

Which is, basically, the header you see in preview mode in Outlook. If I show the email in preview mode, select All and then drag/drop directly to a Memo field I get the basic text of the email, but no header information.

I was NOT, however, able to drag a "file" into my table ... for example, if I select an Excel file and try to drag/drop it directly into a Memo field, Windows wouldn't allow me to do that.

FWIW, I have this functionality built into one of may apps, and I had to use 3rd party controls to do this. I used these:

http://www.ssware.com/

These controls support drag/drop and I was able to allow users the ability to do exactly what they needed, and also build a neat Explorer-like interface with them. there are other controls out there which do this, just make sure they are supported in the Access environment.