URL Script

[Nickrez]

Hi, I'm quite the beginnner with this. I used MS Access for 2 years, but I wasn't the guy on the job that built it. I have a rough idea of how the software works, but scripts are completely new to me.

I have a database started, and I want to put a button next to a field that displays a companies website address. I want to hit the button and have a script run that tells my computer to open up a browser, and take me to the address that is in the field of that current record I'm viewing.

I'm sure this is juvenile to the forum, but I learn best at seeing how something is done correctly, and I want to compare it to my own script concept which isn't working.

It would also be helpful for me, if anybody could direct me to an area of this forum, or somewhere on the web, where I can look at a script and it's actions for reference.

Thanks so much.

[Nickrez]

Oh, I also am aware that I can hold down open-apple and click on the field and it will execute this action, but like I said, I really would like to see how a script would perform this for learning purposes.

[Wim Decorte]

say that the url is in a field named "theURL".

Make a new script, add one step:

Open URL

click Specify, click Specify again to open the calculation window, pick the "theURL" field as the source.

You're done.

[Nickrez]

Thanks!

[Nickrez]

Nice...it worked...thanks again :