[AccessD] Access Application - RSS Feeds - "The Rest of the Story"

[Arthur Fuller]

I concur with the replies that deem RSS feeds dodgy at best. I ween that
you need to return to the client and ask/demand the requirements, shorn
from their potential implementations. This IMO is critical to a solution.
IOW, "Don't fence me in." Don't tell me which technologies I should use to
solve your problem. State your problem, and let me come to my conclusions
regarding the best solution. (This said to your client, not you.) The old
cliche applies here, in spades: DO NOT TELL ME WHAT TO DO TO SOLVE YOUR
PROBLEM.

Arthur

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Brad Marks <bradm at blackforestltd.com>
wrote:

> Darryl and Stuart,
>
> Thanks for the advice.
>
> I should have explained the rest of the story.
>
> I work for a small firm (50 employees) which manufactures and sells
> employee recognition products.
>
> Recently, one of our sales reps landed a very large new account.  This new
> customer has 20,000 employees.
>
> In the contract with this new account, there are a number of technical
> details spelled out.  These details include the exchange of information via
> RSS feeds.
>
> Because of the size of this new account, there is some thought that we
> will need to play by their rules or risk losing their business.
>
> Therefore, I need to get up to speed with RSS feeds as soon as possible.
>
> Brad
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
> Darryl Collins
> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 6:57 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access Application - RSS Feeds
>
> "It doesn't really make a lot of sense to just stipulate a methodology
> rather than a use case."
>
> Stuart has a great point here.  This is often the case of "Have Hammer,
> ergo - problem must be a nail."  Would certainly be worth asking what it is
> they are trying to achieve and why they think an RSS feed is the best way
> to achieve that.  It might be so, but there may also be a much easier and
> better option available as well that they are not aware of (or haven't
> considered).
>
> Cheers
> Darryl
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
> Stuart McLachlan
> Sent: Tuesday, 29 September 2015 9:03 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access Application - RSS Feeds
>
> It's a web technology which supplies XML formatted text files usually to
> a user's browser at
> predetermined intervals when they have the browser open.   However, since
> it is an
> on-demand XML file, you can access it in a variety of ways. There are
> previous threads here where Darren Dick and I have done this directly in
> Access.  So you could add something to the application to periodically poll
> a server and get new data.
>
>
> You will need a web server and a way to get the appropriate data into XML
> format on the server (Your can use VBA to export data as XML).
>
> Don't know about the customer sending data via RSS - they would need to
> upload the data to their own RSS enabled web server which you would then
> need to poll periodically and parse the returned XML.
>
> Do you know why/how  the customer wants to use the RSS feeds?  It doesn't
> really make a lot of sense to just stipulate a methodology rather than a
> use case.
>
> --
> Stuart
>
> On 28 Sep 2015 at 21:44, Brad Marks wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > We have a key application that was built with Access 2007.
> >
> > Recently, a large customer has asked us to both send and receive
> > information via RSS feeds.
> >
> > I have very little experience in this realm.
> >
> > I am curious if others have used RSS feeds in Access applications.
> >
> > Is anyone aware of good information on the web on how to use RSS feeds
> > with Access?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brad
> >
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Arthur