jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu Feb 3 13:40:52 CST 2011
>I usually just open another instance of Access and then.. Yea. These are end users so... batch file it is. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com On 2/3/2011 2:13 PM, Heenan, Lambert wrote: > Don't know why but I see the same thing happening. I usually just open another instance of Access and then have it open the second instance of the MDB file via the File menu. > > Lambert > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby > Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 2:05 PM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: [AccessD] Opening an Access application multiple times > > I am trying to open an access application more than once - two instances open at the same time. > When I double click the FE (in explorer) it opens. When I go back to explorer and double click it again, it just switches me back to the open instance. Shouldn't it open the application a second time? > > When, from a batch file, I so something like "SomePath\Access.exe" SomeAccessFe.mdb it in fact opens the application a second time. > > I can live with having to open it from a batch file but I am just wondering why this is happening. > > -- > John W. Colby > www.ColbyConsulting.com > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >