CHRISTOS TSIOURTOS said:
Hi, Thanks for the try,
I ll try to be more specific,
What i am trying to do is : While working on ArcGIS i want to edit (edit
feature classes, ...points , polygons) on an access database .This access
database is already made . I need a link to make possible the full
functional
communication bettwen GIS and ACCESS .My problem is that i dont know how
to
create THIS LINK.
Well, since I don't know what ArcGIS is at all, and you trying to do
something from that program, I suspect you would have to ask them how to
create this link??? It not clear what kind of link you are creating, but do
you have some programming and development language you are using with
ArcGIS? What development environment des the ArcGIS provide? Does it have a
built in programming language? Does it support com objects (automation?).
Either ArcGIS supports odbc linked tabled to ms-access, or it supports
automation (com). The simple solution would be to ask those developers and
people at ArcGIS how you do this.
the way you modify and use data in a ms-access mdb file is either you
connect to the mdb data file and modify the data in the mdb file, or you
automate the ms-access application, and that application via automaton will
modify the data for you. If you are trying to modify ms-access from ArcGIS,
then you obviously using ArcGIS to do this. Just because an application uses
ms-access data does not mean the actual application is written in ms-access
(for example, the very popular commercial accounting package called Simply
Accounting actually uses the ms-access mdb file format..but, the actually
application is not written in ms-access -- this means you can open simply
accounting files with ms-access. However, you can NOT use Simply Accounting
to open any ms-access file you want).
So, the question is where, and from what development environment are you
creating a link to ms-access? (it not ms-access that creates this link, it
is the particular set of tools you are using to develop your application
with..and that set of application tools links TO ms-access, not the other
way around. So, depending on what features and how ArcGIS works is going
give you this answer.