AllowBypassKey in Access project

[Jonathan Attree]

Does anyone know how to prevent users from displaying the DB window by
holding down the Shift key when opening an Access project? I want to stop
users from viewing/editing tables directly from the DB window.

Any help much appreciated.

Jonathan Attree

 

[Granny Spitz via AccessMonster.com]

Does anyone know how to prevent users from displaying the DB window by
holding down the Shift key when opening an Access project? I want to stop
users from viewing/editing tables directly from the DB window.

For an Access project (ADP), you apply security in SQL Server or MSDE to
prevent users from accessing tables directly. For an mdb you apply User-
level security, remove all permissions for tables except from members of the
Admins group, use RWOP (run with owner permissions) queries so users can
*see* data in forms, reports and queries only, and then run this code to
prevent users from holding down the shift key when opening the database (and
changing this setting): http://www.mvps.org/access/general/gen0040.htm. Note
that if you don't apply User-level security, this setting can be reversed by
anyone because the default Admin user in the default workgroup has the
permissions to reverse it.

 

[Jonathan Attree]

Thanks for the reply.
How do I apply security in SQL Server to prevent users editing data directly?
Re AllowBypassKey
Found this which seems to work with Access projects:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826765

Jonathan Attree

 

[Granny Spitz via AccessMonster.com]

How do I apply security in SQL Server to prevent users editing data directly?

It's too much for me to write the book myself in a newsgroup post, but you
can read everything about security in the BOL, which comes with SQL Server.

Found this which seems to work with Access projects:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826765

If you use that you'll be pleasantly surprised when one of your users runs
this line of code on your database:

CurrentProject.Properties.Remove "AllowBypassKey"