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Triggering the export macro from a web page?

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_adrian - 12 Sep 2005 17:38 GMT
Is there a way to call to an Access macro from outside the DB? In
particular, I need something that the client can  click on in their web
page, that will force Access to run the export macro...

Thoughts?
Brendan Reynolds - 13 Sep 2005 12:14 GMT
You could automate Access, but that would mean that Access would need to be
installed on the system where the code runs (which might be the user's PC or
the server, depending on whether your web app is using client-side or
server-side code). If server-side, it would mean an instance of Access being
created for each user, which would not be a good idea on a busy web site.
And then there is the question of where is the data - client side or server
side, same location as the code, or not?

In short, it would probably be a much better idea to add the data-transfer
code to the web app itself rather than trying to use the Access macro - it
will not be any more difficult to do that than it would be to write the code
to automate Access.

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> Is there a way to call to an Access macro from outside the DB? In
> particular, I need something that the client can  click on in their web
> page, that will force Access to run the export macro...
>
> Thoughts?
 
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