Nicholson, Karen
cyx5 at cdc.gov
Tue Mar 1 11:21:50 CST 2005
Most clients own a copy of Access, so the .mde is easier to distribute. I have to use the runtime for clients in many countries who do not have Access installed on their system. I have been using the 2003 runtime and am happy with it, my users are not experiencing any problems. I know that when I test the runtime on my workstation, that has three versions of Access, that the next time I go to an app, it opens up in the version of the runtime that I last installed. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark Breen Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 12:09 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: [AccessD] Seeking your Access Runtime Experiences Hello All, As you may have seen, I am currently enjoying being up to my elbows in Access 97, a database with 1000 linked oracle tables and hundreds of forms, reports, queries, pass through queries, dynamically generated SQL etc and of course loads of code, no errorhandling and no comments and no documentation! A question arose a few days ago about migrating it to Access 2003 and using the Runtime version. I have gone online and had a quick read of what is required for runtime, at its simplest level it seems to be to build a complete GUI, which I normally do anyway. The only thing that I usually depend on is the filter by form etc context menu's. Have you guys any comments to make on using the runtime? Rocky, why did you not use the Runtime for EZ-MRP? I am guessing that you evaluated it and found it troublesome. Is that the case? In fact, I get the impression that most of us do not use the runtime, the question I am curious about is why? It is surely handy to lock down an app but is it a heavy handed tool? Thanks all for your advice, Mark Breen Ireland -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com