Hyperlinks in ArcGIS 10

[gallspaw]

Prior to installing ArcGIS 10, I had perfectly good VBA scripting in place to use hyperlinks to add raster datasets to ArcMap and place them in a particular group layer. With version 10, I am apparently blocked from using VBA with hyperlinks, other than using the small, crappy script editor on the Hyperlink Script dialog. I am not having any luck inserting and/or adapting my existing VBA scripts for this editor.

The following code is a slight modification of the default VBScript code for the Hyperlink Script dialog. I have inserted the correct field that contains my paths that are needed for hyperlink.

Function OpenLink ( [URL] )
Dim path
Dim objShell
path = [URL]
Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
objShell.ShellExecute path, "", "", "open", 1
End Function

This code works without error, but it does not do what I need. It opens my raster image in Windows Photo Viewer. What I actually need to do is add the raster image to the map and place it as the top item in a group layer named "FIRM".

Can someone please help me write the correct code?

Thanks.

Greg Allspaw

[PatrickG25]

Bump!

I'm having the same problem.

[PatrickG25]

Bump! I'm still working on this.

[Rwiseman]

Same problem here. All I need is the script to add the image to my map document instead of opening in a new window.

[johndm]

I use nearly the same vbs and it works fine in ArcMap, but does not carry over into ArcReader, by design...not sure why it's not working in ArcMap.

[Hay]

Same problem anyone fix this
VERY annoyingworked fine in 9.3.1
i am same as Rwiseman i need it to add the raster data to the current map, i used it to add lidar tiles
i can open the file but it opens in new window in a text editor !!!!

Would be good if ESRI responded to this as they caused the issue

[milesloretta]

Bump.

ESRI has been no help at all. Even when they said they would.

[dkwiens]

Rather than bumping this thread in a forum where not everyone knows VBA, why not try posting this in the ArcObjects forum. This sounds like something easily accomplished in ArcObjects.

[raphael.foscarini]

i want this script too...
it'll work like in mapinfo..