Link to Access app from HTML

L

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
 
M

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...).
 
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