How to have a button open a hyperlink?

[Chris24]

I have a form with a Combo box and a button.
I want the user to be able to choose an option in the combo box, click the button, and a related .pdf is opened.

The Combo box has a control source in a table. Within the same record as the control source, a 2nd column contains a hyperlink with a file path to a related .pdf.

What I am struggling with is the code associated with the clicking of the button.
How do I command Access/VBA to go to the record chosen, find the related .pdf, and open the .pdf with a click of a button?

[TheSmileyCoder]

Hi Chris and welcome to Bytes.
This can easily be done, but it would be alot easier to give a precise and useful answer for you if you could provide:
Name of your combobox, its Controlsource value, and Row Source value.
Name of your document table, and fields like the example provided:

tbl_Documents
  Key_Document, Autonumber
  tx_DocTitle, Text
  tx_DocFullPath, Text

I can allready say that once you have the correct path, its a simple matter of:

Application.FollowHyperlink strFullPath

where strFullPath is the full path to your document. If you provide the required information im sure one of us can help with the rest.

[Chris24]

On the form
ComboBox: CompanyName
Controlsource value: CompanyName
Row Source value: SELECT CompanyInfo.Fil eID, CompanyInfo.Com panyName FROM CompanyInfo ORDER BY CompanyInfo.Com panyName;

On the table:
Autonumber: FileID
Text Column: CompanyName
Hyperlink Column: InfoPDF

[TheSmileyCoder]

Okay, first its a good idea if you use comboboxes in code (as we are about to) to rename them so they do not have the same name as the field in the table. So we rename the CompanyName Combobox to cmb_CompanyName .

We then add a button, btn_GoTo, and if you look at its properties, select events, and then on Click, you select the 3 ... on the righthand side. Click them and choose Event Procedure.

Then you will be taken to the Visual basic editing window where some code we be written allready:

Private Sub btn_GoTo_Click()

End Sub

Modify this to:

Private Sub btn_GoTo_Click()
  dim strPath as string
  'Error check
  If isNull(Me.cmb_CompanyName) Then
    Msgbox "No document selected",vbokonly
    Exit Sub
  End If

  'Get path
  strPath=Dlookup("InfoPDF","tbl_Doc","FileID=" & Me.cmb_CompanyName)
  application.FollowHyperlink strPath
End Sub

[Chris24]

Thank you very much TheSmileyOne.

I am having further issues because not every record in my table has a hyperlink path.

I have been working with a If statement, but i cannot get it to work. I am unsure what I am commanding the if statement to do, but I receive the Msgbox everytime (I changed "tbl_doc" to my table name):

If strPath = DLookup("InfoPD F", "CompanyInf o", "FileID=" & Me.cmb_CompanyN ame) Then
Application.Fol lowHyperlink strPath
Else
MsgBox "No supporting document submitted", vbExclamation
End If

[TheSmileyCoder]

In the code you posted you don't show where you got strPath from. If you want to check whether or not anything is returned you can do:

strPath = nz(DLookup("InfoPDF", "CompanyInfo", "FileID=" & Me.cmb_CompanyName),"")

if strPath & ""<>"" Then
Application.FollowHyperlink strPath
Else
MsgBox "No supporting document submitted", vbExclamation
End If

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[Chris24]

Answer Complete!!

Thank you so much!!