Access vs Maximizer

[SilviBeOS]

Greetings to all,

At the office, one of my colleagues is running an old version of
Maximizer (97). Recently, we have been debating the feasibility of
exporting the data to an Access database.

So my question is to all the knowledgeable and seasonned members of
this newsgroup: what would your
suggestions/recommendations/pointers/whatever be? Any experience is
such a venture you'd like to share?

Thanks to all

Sylvie

 

[StCyrM]

Hi Sylvie

You should not have any problems as long as Maximizer allows you to export the
data into a format that is readable by Access, i.e. .XLS, .DBF. TXT, .CVS,
etc,etc

Once this is done, then simply import the data into your new MS Access database

Personnally, I've done this hundreds on time without any problems.

Best regards

Maurice

 

[Albert D. Kallal]

Well, you can certainly export the data to Maixiamer.

in fact, I have written quotation systems in ms-access that plucks/grabs
from the Contact names in Maximizer. Maximizer does have ODBC drivers, and
they do work with ms-access. Thus, you can write applications in ms-access
that integrate, and use the Maximoswer data/system. In fact, with the
developers extension to Maximier, your ms-access applications can even make
new appointments appear in Maiximer via what is called automation (Maximizer
is a windows com object, and thus can be manipulated programalliy from
products like Word, and yes, even ms-access)..

However, simply grabbing data from Maximiser is not a big deal.

If you talking about replacing the functionality of Maximzier, then I am
afraid you are talking about a totally different question here! Lets be VERY
clear on you question!

You can take the data out of Maximier and put it into Excel, but then now
you just have a nice looking grid of data. A grid of data is NOT anything
remotely close to an application like maximzier, which would requite a lot
of develpment work on your part.