[AccessD] AXP Question

Terri,

Based on experience I can recommend a free utility (Auto FE Updater) which
can be downloaded from this web site.

http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/autofe.htm

You can use this to both initially distribute a FE to user's PCs, and to
update each FE after you have made changes to the FE.  The updating
operation is mostly transparent to the user, and they don't need to take any
action.

For the initial loading of the FE at user's PCs, send all the users an email
with the shortcut (described in the documentation) as an attachment.
Instruct the user in the email to copy the attachment to their PC, then
double-click the shortcut.  From that point on, the users double-click the
same shortcut to open the current FE or to download an updated FE. 

Good Luck!
Dan Waters



-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Terri Jarus
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 6:27 AM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [AccessD] AXP Question


I have upgraded a FE database from A97 to AXP successfully,  however, a
major difference that is annoying me is the fact that in a multiuser
environment, I am unable to make changes to the design unless I open
exclusively.

I never had this problem in A97 and now that my users are all getting
upgraded to the AXP FE, I am running across a few areas that need to be
tweaked and can't do it until everyone is out of the db.  This is a shared
network FE.

I should probably give everyone their own copy on their desktop, however,
this database has evolved greatly over the past 3 years and has required
many changes.  I have always been able to make these changes while the db
was being used by others with no problem.  There are about 20 users - so
upgrading everyone's FE would be very tedious.

I know there are some automated programs to do the updating, but one I had
tried took too long and was cumbersome to the user.

Any suggestions or ideas - is there a setting I'm missing that would allow
design changes while in use???

Thanks for any help.
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