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Link a text field to Database Access

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2008-09-04 08:37:52
crifort
Registered: Sep 3 2008
Posts: 4
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Hi,

I need to Open an Microsoft Access form to a specific occurence by clicking a text Field in a PDF document.
Thanks,

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 7.0, Windows
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2008-09-08 10:08:55
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thomp
Expert
Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
This can be done. Acrobat on Windows can access the ODBC service. It does this through the ADBC object, look it up in the Acrobat JavaScript API Reference. However, this is an Acrobat Professional and Standard only thing. It is not availible in Adobe Reader.

LiveCycle documents have a database access mechanism that does work on Reader, but it requires special Rights Enabling.

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