[AccessD] Leave a bound form in a library.

John --

I see. But then why rebinding form in Open or Load event to a query, which
uses IN '' clause, is considered as not so efficient workaround there?

-- Shamil

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 > Did that client have two FEs stored in the same folder?

Yes.  Of course I can work around the issue but I prefer to have it "just
work".  Of course having 
the tables in the Fe itself introduces issues as well.  There is no free
lunch.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Shamil Salakhetdinov wrote:
> John --
> 
> Yes, I "mean linking the tables from the FE back into the lib".
> Why not "clone" library database for every FE?
> Did that client have two FEs stored in the same folder?
> 
> -- Shamil
> 
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> 
> Shamil,
> 
> I take it you mean linking the tables from the FE back into the lib so
that
> the form opens seeing 
> the security info for the FE.
> 
> I did something like this but ended up with problems when the client
wanted
> to use the library for 
> two different FEs which needed different security info.
> 
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
> 
> 
> Shamil Salakhetdinov wrote:
>> Hi John --
>>
>> What about linked tables?
>> I used them in library MS Access databases and that worked well for me
and
>> for my customers in many projects.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> -- Shamil
>>
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>> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 5:38 AM
>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>> Subject: [AccessD] Leave a bound form in a library.
>>
>> One of the challenges of using an "addin" library is placing forms in the
>> add-in but having them 
>> load records from the FE.  For example if I make a bound form to load the
>> users table but I leave 
>> that form in the library (add-in), then when the form opens it tries to
> load
>> the data from the table 
>> in the library.  IOW a form tries to pull its data from whatever
container
>> it is placed in.
>>
>> One way around that is to use the "in 'MyFePath\MyDbName.mdb' syntax that
> is
>> valid in access.  As an 
>> example SQL to pull the records from the FE might look as follows:
>>
>> SELECT * FROM usystblPLSObjFrm in 'C:\Dev\C2DbPLS\C2DbPLS.mda' ORDER BY
>> PLSF_Name;
>>
>> This would obviously pull all fields from the table usystblPLSObjFrm
>> physically located in 
>> C:\Dev\C2DbPLS\C2DbPLS.mda.
>>
>> This is a PITA and requires jumping through hoops but that is the only
>> solution that I know of.
>>
>> If any of you know of another solution please let me know since I do have
> to
>> get adept at hoop 
>> jumping to do it my way.
>>
>> Thanks,
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