[AccessD] Problems with Refreshing Access Report on Intranet

Excellent suggestion.

Jim

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From: "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 7:23:22 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Problems with Refreshing Access Report on Intranet

Shadowcopy  - http://www.runtime.org/shadow-copy.htm

However, that is not the correct solution to your problem.  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.   



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

> Gustav,
> 
> Thanks for the assistance.
> 
> I changed the creation of the PDF to go into a working folder.
> 
> I then added a small step to copy the PDF file from the working folder
> to the folder that the Intranet uses. This step uses a .bat file (Copy
> C:\Staging\Test.PDF C:\Intranet\Test.PDF) 
> 
> When I run this two-step process, I still run into problems if the PDF
> file in the Intranet folder is in use when the second step is
> executed.
> 
> I am wondering if there is any Windows Utility that can copy from
> A.pdf to B.pdf when B.pdf is opened.
> 
> Thanks,
> Brad 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com on behalf of Gustav Brock
> Sent: Wed 11/13/2013 3:30 PM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject:
> Re: [AccessD] Problems with Refreshing Access Report on	Intranet
> 
> Hi Brad
> 
> Right after the creation of the PDF in a working folder, you could
> copy it to the folder users reach.
> 
> /gustav
> 
> >>> 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
> 
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