Re: email hyperlinks in a form

Am 12.03.2011 05:37, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
>
> Received an interesting request from a user that stores contact
> information in a Base document. When stored in a Write or Calc document,
> OOo recognizes things such as an email address and converts it to a
> link. You can then click on the link to automatically open say your
> email software.
>
> Now, if I store an email address as a field in Base, is there anyway
> that I can cause this to be treated as a link in a form (or similar).
>
> In a pinch, I will write a macro that is called as an event handler for
> a button activation that will read the email field for the current
> record and invoke the default email software. I would prefer to not
> write a macro, however.
>
>

Have a look at very simplistic approach: 
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4778&p=25810&hilit=file+hyperlink+url#p25810 
(no error handling)

Hope this helps,
Andreas

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