[AccessD] Front End Updater

What about Ted Avery's Front end updater?  I use that one quite a lot.  John
Colby has it on his site under Useful Files.

Debbie

-----Original Message-----
From: Arthur Fuller [mailto:artful at rogers.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 1:52 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] Front End Updater


I know that this has been kicked around several times in the past, but 
I'd like to know the current thinking on this subject. Given N users on 
a LAN (and it might be a WAN), we want to place any updates in one 
standard place (probably using a hardcoded reference to the box and dir) 
and then have a mechanism that checks to see if the update is more 
recent than the version locally loaded.

What puzzles me about this is: given Access's habit of re-timestamping 
the ADP/MDB file upon loading, how do you compare versions to see which 
is more recent? A laptop user, for example, currently disconnected but 
going to be connected tomorrow morning, may have a more recent timestamp 
on her file than the one on the net. How do you get around this problem?

TIA,
Arthur

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