creating "executable" database

[Marilla]

We are running Access2000. I would like to know, if it possible to create an "executable" version of a access database. I explain better. I know it exists the runtime version of Access. I don't know what should I do in order to let my database being used on a PC where only Access runtime is installed
Is there any documentation on the matter. Which keyword should I use to retrieve information on the web
Thanks in Advanc
Marilla Ferrari

 

[Patrick]

HI MArilla!

NO!
You wont be able to create or simulate and Executable of
your Access 2000 application, onless you have a copy of
Access 2000 Developer on your machine.


Plus,I don't belive that a PC will only have a copy of
Access run time installed on-it at any time.(Correct me if
I'm wrong). Onless you mean that that PC has Access
installed onto-it.???

ELSE,
I see 2 ways of achiving what I think you want:
If you develop an application using Access, For it to work
on any given PC's, you will need one of the 2 following
setups, otherwise it won't work.

1- To have a copy of Access installed on every PC's you
want your application copied to.

Or

2- To create an executable(Access Developer)
which in turn, will allow you to install your copy of your
application on any PC's regardless if they have Access or
not installed on their computer.

The "Access runtime"" only comes with versions of Access
Developer. Its the only way to create an application that
will run on its own.

Hope this is what you needed,
PAtrick

-----Original Message-----
We are running Access2000. I would like to know, if it

possible to create an "executable" version of a access
database. I explain better. I know it exists the runtime
version of Access. I don't know what should I do in order
to let my database being used on a PC where only Access
runtime is installed.

Is there any documentation on the matter. Which keyword

should I use to retrieve information on the web?

 

[TC]

(snip)

Plus,I don't belive that a PC will only have a copy of
Access run time installed on-it at any time.(Correct me if
I'm wrong). Onless you mean that that PC has Access
installed onto-it.???

Access has a so-called "runtime" version (as you clearly know already). It
is quite possible that one PC has a full version of Access, another has just
the runtime version, and a third one does not have any version at all. The
first 2 of those 3 PCs, >do have Access on them<. The third one doesn't.
Either of the first two PCs could probably run the original poster's
database. The third one couldn't.

2- To create an executable(Access Developer)
which in turn, will allow you to install your copy of your
application on any PC's regardless if they have Access or
not installed on their computer.

The developer runtime version >is a version of Access<. If you have the
runtime on your PC, you do have Access on your PC. Again, there is the full
(retail) version of Access, and the runtime (developer) version of Access.
Both of those are versions of Access.

HTH,
TC