[AccessD] One Accdr (front end) for each User's PC or Share theAccdr file on the File Server

Here is the snippet of code that does the read / copy bit if you are interested.

' Read the version text files and compare them.
if FS.fileexists(destinationPath & "version.txt") then
	destTxtVersionFile = GetFile(destinationPath & "version.txt")
	sourceTxtVersionFile = GetFile(sourcePath & "version.txt")
	copyTheFile = not (destTxtVersionFile = sourceTxtVersionFile)
else
	copyTheFile = true
end if

if (FS.fileexists(destinationPath & applicationname & ".accde") = false) then copyTheFile = true	

if copyTheFile then
	FS.CopyFile sourcePath & applicationName & ".accde", destinationPath
	FS.CopyFile sourcePath & "version.txt", destinationPath
	FS.CopyFile sourcePath & "Icon.ico", destinationPath
	copyOtherSpecifiedFiles
end if



-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan
Sent: Wednesday, 22 October 2014 9:54 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] One Accdr (front end) for each User's PC or Share theAccdr file on the File Server

Incidentally, you don't actually need to "read" the two files to compare them.

The simplest way is something like:

FC AppVersion.txt \\server\database\AppVersion.txt > nul IF errorlevel 1 COPY....



On 21 Oct 2014 at 22:19, Darryl Collins wrote:

> Hi Arthur,
> 
> I use two text files, one stored locally and one of the server.
> 
> These two text files have nothing in them but the version number
> 
> The launcher script reads the contents of both and if they match it 
> just opens the local FE version of Access normally.
> 
> If the version numbers do not match then the script copies the latest 
> version.txt file and the latest Access FE from the server and replaces 
> the local copies.
> 
> It then open the local (updated) version of the FE.
> 
> Cheers
> Darry.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur 
> Fuller Sent: Tuesday, 21 October 2014 8:00 PM To: Access Developers 
> discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] One Accdr (front
> end) for each User's PC or Share theAccdr file on the File Server
> 
> Darryl,
> 
> That's the approach I was thinking of. How do you check the version 
> numbers? Do you have to open each copy of the FE to find that out, or 
> do you have some other means of storing the version number?
> 
> Arthur
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