Confused Newbie!!

[Jeff]

Hello. I was thinking about using the data access page
feature, but could not find anything saying if the person
accessing the web page needs Access installed on their
computer. I know the data access page is in html, but I
am confused about whether the end-user needs access to
view that page and add new records. Thanks for any input.

Confused,
Jeff

 

[Ken Snell [MVP]]

The person does not need ACCESS installed, but must have the Office Web
Components installed. They can be downloaded from Microsoft's web site for
free, I believe.

 

[Alex Ivanov]

All that the end user needs is the web borwser.

 

[Jeff]

Thanks for the quick reply Ken. I was hoping that would
be the answer.

 

[DBS]

The short answer is that this can be useful on a company's
internal intranet, but I wouldn't even attempt to put this
out over the internet. Most webmasters would have a
conniption fit even thinking about opening up their server
to run this. Keeping it strictly internal is another
matter, though.

At minimum, you'll need to deploy the backend database on
a machine running IIS.

You may want to read up on doing this, as it can be pretty
complex. There's a good article on MSDN:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?
url=/library/en-us/dnacc2k2/html/deploydap.asp


DBS