Link to Access app from HTML

[Lee Schipper]

I have a conventional (non-web) Access 2000 application sitting on a public
share on my corporate network.

People have asked me to put a link to that application on the company's
intranet home page.

Is that possible?

As a brute-force test, I tried simply creating a link to the .MDB file to
see what would happen. When I click on the link, IE tries to download the
file instead of opening it ... no surprise.

Seems like opening a program from an HTML page is a big security hole, but I
am hoping that since this is all within the intranet that there would be a
way.

Thanks for any ideas!

Lee Schipper

 

[RC-]

The way we do it on our Intranet is to create a shortcut to the database
file. Then use the .lnk as the target for the html page. Example:
\\SomeServer\SomeFolder\SomeOtherFolder\MyAccessDataBase.mdb.lnk.

Access will open and you will be able to look at/modify the DB

HTH

 

[Mark Andrews]

You could use our software to let users run your Access reports through your
Intranet
site. To make a web version of the user interface usually you rewrite it
using a technology
like active server pages or asp.net.

However you could pretty easily make the reports available with some small
amount
of asp work and our software opening your access reports on the server.

HTH,
Mark Andrews
RPT Software
http://www.rptsoftware.com

PS: Otherwise look into the best way to have users run your application over
the network
(wasn't sure if users have the right version of Access etc...).

 

[Guest]

RC,

Thank god you put this on here. I have been trying to get round this problem
all day. I was having the problem descibed in;
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;208797
Using this technique gets round that too.

Thanks

Jared
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