MartyConnelly
martyconnelly at shaw.ca
Tue Feb 22 22:32:18 CST 2005
Should be some useful code here ALink21 <http://www.colbyconsulting.com/UsefulFiles/ALink21.zip> Carl Tribble's Back End Relinker code at http://www.colbyconsulting.com/ under menu item useful files David Emerson wrote: > I have an Access XP application which links to Visual Foxpro tables. > > There could be several versions of the data in separate folders (but > each folder contains copies all the required tables). > > I would like to be able to ask the user for the folder name for the > tables, then change all the linked tables so that they are pointing to > the new folder. > > Can anyone give me directions for doing this in code. My guess is > looping through the current linked tables and replacing the table path > with the new path. > > The description string for one of the tables is: > > ODBC;DSN=Visual FoxPro > Tables;SourceDB=d:\PMS\Data\20050215;SourceType=DBF;Exclusive=No;BackgroundFetch=Yes;Collate=Machine;Null=Yes;Deleted=Yes;;TABLE=rs2YTD > > > > Regards > > David Emerson > Dalyn Software Ltd > 25 Cunliffe St, Churton Park > Wellington, New Zealand > Ph/Fax (04) 478-7456 > Mobile 027-280-9348 -- Marty Connelly Victoria, B.C. Canada