ms access orgcharts

[dshafique]

Hi, im fairly new to ms access, and im working with org charts for this project. I wanted to know if there is a way to extract the data from an org chart and store it into a database or vice versa? I saw some ways using visio, unfortunately i dont have access to that. any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Micron]

If not a Word, Excel or Visio file, the only other application I'm aware of that could work is Adobe PDF writer (not Acrobat, the pdf reader). Based on other forum threads I've read, it seems pdf form fields can be read by or written to by Access.

 

[dshafique]

oh ok, thanks yeah it seems the org chart is a pdf file, but i believe was made in visio. is there maybe a way to export the chart to excel, and then to visio?

 

[Micron]

oh ok, thanks yeah it seems the org chart is a pdf file, but i believe was made in visio.

Then it is highly likely that the chart is an image. Don't confuse pdf that you view in Acrobat Reader with a pdf form. To create a pdf document that can interact with other applications, you need Adobe (or whatever the pdf creator app is called) not Acrobat Reader. It's easy to move what you seem to have (an image of the chart in a pdf read only file) to any other app but it would behave like any other image you dumped into those apps.