Darren
darren at activebilling.com.au
Wed Nov 13 16:32:25 CST 2013
Hi Brad, I would recommend something similar to Gustav's approach. Don't have users click on the actual result PDF file. Have them open a copy of the result PDF file. That way the build and PDF creation process is not interrupted or interfered with. Then have a copy routine running in the back ground copying the live result PDF file to a copy location. So basically, point users to that copied location via your intranet page. You could even use a simple batch file to do the copying and output the results of the batch file copy to a logfile. Many thanks Darren -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Brad Marks Sent: Thursday, 14 November 2013 6:25 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: [AccessD] Problems with Refreshing Access Report on Intranet 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 -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com