[AccessD] Dialog Box for Creating .txt tables

Actually, if you use Access User Level security (another reason to stay
away from Access 2007), you can remove change rights for the Admin
account.  So users using your application log in with an account that
has rights to modify data, but if they want to query the data, the get
read only capability.

I've done that with a few databases around here, where only certain
people should be able to change the data, and everyone should be able to
view it.  Those few people get a login, the rest just open the mdb.

Drew

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Hewson, Jim 
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:13 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Dialog Box for Creating .txt tables

William, your statement below has me intrigued.  
I am working on a proposal for group of researchers that want to be able
to query the data from a questionnaire that students fill out.
You stated below "you have to provide a custom query engine for the
users."
How do you do that?
Thanks,

Jim

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of William
Hindman
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:12 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Dialog Box for Creating .txt tables

...an mde on a full access install only protects your code, not your
data 
...a power user wannabe can use a full install to run queries against
the be 
data that can do immense and sometimes uncorrectable damage simply
because 
they only "thimk" they know what they are doing ...I've walked away from

jobs over that issue ...I grant that's a luxury others may not have.

...on the other side, that means you have to provide a custom query
engine 
for the users to have limited access to find the data they need without
my 
helping hand ...find the data, not modify it in any way that I don't 
control.

William
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