Caller ID in MS Access?

[panoss]

I 'm planning to make an application that will read the caller id and display the related information from a db.
How could I do this?
With a modem connected to my pc?


And an .ocx that will be the 'connector' of MS Access and the modem?

Or some other way?

[rpeare]

Your approach depends on your source.

For instance the phone system I work with generates a log in a text file format, I parse that to get the caller ID information I want. All I need in that case is an appropriately shared drive on a local network. Nothing crazy is needed (filesystemobject commands used to parse the text file). If your phone system does not generate or is not capable of generating a call log in a text file format you would then have to start looking into more technical solutions.

[redbull]

Your approach depends on your source.

For instance the phone system I work with generates a log in a text file format, I parse that to get the caller ID information I want. All I need in that case is an appropriately shared drive on a local network. Nothing crazy is needed (filesystemobject commands used to parse the text file). If your phone system does not generate or is not capable of generating a call log in a text file format you would then have to start looking into more technical solutions.

What phone system is that? I'd like to remember that so I can suggest it when the conversation comes up. Automating a help desk work flow would be REALLY quick if I could just read a text file.