[AccessD] Problems with Refreshing Access Report on Intranet

Stuart,

I followed your advice (11/13/2013) and established up a proper web
server.

I downloaded and installed WAMP (Windows - Apache - Microsoft SQL Server
- PHP) on both a stand-alone PC (XP) and on a server (Windows Server
2003).

With a small amount of work, I was able to put together a little PHP
program that can read data from an Access Database.  This program works
nicely on both the stand-alone PC and on the Server.

My next step is to make this PHP application available to about 10
people on our little Intranet.  I have not been able to figure out how
to make things on the Apache web server available to people on our
internal network.  

I don't understand how to build the connection between the PCs on the
network and the Apache web server which is running on one of our
servers.

I have checked out 4 books from our local library and I have looks at
dozens of sites on the internet, but I have not been able to find the
missing piece.

I thought that perhaps you or someone here on AccessD could point me in
the right direction.

Thanks,
Brad  

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-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart
McLachlan
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 9:23 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Problems with Refreshing Access Report on
Intranet


Your problem is the way the Intranet is set up.  

Are you using a prpoer web server, or are you just using URLs to a
shared folder on your network. It looks like the latter.

If you use a web server to serve the PDF, it will not be locked by a
user viewing it.   


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On 13 Nov 2013 at 19:39, Brad Marks wrote:

> 
> >>> BradM at blackforestltd.com 13-11-13 20:25 >>>
> All,
> 
> We use Access 2007 to create a large number of reports from data that 
> is stored in a purchased package system.  This works very nicely.
> 
> Recently, we have built a new report that shows "production schedule 
> information".  Our users really like this new report, the catch is 
> that it takes about 2-3 minutes to generate it.
> 
> Because of this long generation time, I have set up a scheduled task 
> to run every 15 minutes to generate this new report.  The output is 
> exported as a PDF file.  One of the pages on our Intranet has a link 
> to this PDF file.  This approach has worked nicely.
> 
> Our users really like being able to obtain this report instantly via 
> the Intranet rather than waiting 2-3 minutes when they generate it via

> the Access application.
> 
> There is one problem, however.  If any user is viewing the PDF file 
> when the "refresh job" is running, the refresh is not able to place 
> the new PDF file in the Intranet's folder.
> 
> I am curious if anyone else has run into this problem and has ideas on

> how to work around it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Brad
> 
>