Saving from Web to file system

[Guest]

Hello, I am new to Access and have a question. Can I do the following? I want
to allow a user in a browser window to put in information and save this
information as a file (.txt, .pdf whatever) on the file system. Is this
possible in Access?

 

['69 Camaro]

Hi.

I want
to allow a user in a browser window to put in information and save this
information as a file (.txt, .pdf whatever) on the file system. Is this
possible in Access?

Not out of the box. I suppose one could use Data Access Pages for the data
input from the Web Browser (but Data Access Pages have limited functionality
and can only be used on an Intranet, not the Internet), and the Access
database application could run a custom function to export the data to an
external file on the file system. However, the most common method of data
input over the Web to an Access database is with ASP or ASP.Net Web
application. I recommend posting a question in the Web developer newsgroups
on how to build a Web application for a database if you're not familiar with
Web development.

HTH.
Gunny

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