runtime share db?

[nmorin]

I'm having a few problems with the packaging wizard.
After I use the packaging wizard created app and install it
on a system, the runtime starts but I don't see the db. The runtime
is displayed but there is no db. The db has just a simple test db with 1 table.
Is there a way to point access to another db? ...change the command line invocation?
Is it possible to point the runtime to another db on a share?

 

[no db visible in runtime, solved]

hello
I discovered that I needed a switchboard to alloe me to access the db
....I'm learning
Will the runtime allow me to use another db on a share if I invoke acces
with the name of the db on the share? "msaccess sharedrive:\db.mdb"???

 

[Tony Toews]

"no db visible in runtime, solved"

I discovered that I needed a switchboard to alloe me to access the db.
...I'm learning.

There are also some other things you need to be concerned with.

Microsoft Access (Office) Developer Edition FAQ
http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/developereditionfaq.htm

Will the runtime allow me to use another db on a share if I invoke access
with the name of the db on the share? "msaccess sharedrive:\db.mdb"???

Yes, but each user should have their own copy of the FE linking to the
shared BE.

You want to split the MDB into a front end containing the queries,
forms, reports, macros and modules with just the tables and
relationships. The FE is copied to each network users computer. The
FE MDB is linked to the tables in the back end MDB which resides on a
server. You make updates to the FE MDB and distribute them to the
users, likely as an MDE.

See the "Splitting your app into a front end and back end Tips" page
at http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/splitapp/ for more info. See the
Auto FE Updater downloads page
http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/autofe.htm to make this relatively
painless.. It also supports Terminal Server/Citrix quite nicely.

Tony
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