[WEB4LIB] RE: MS Access data page

[Ross Singer]

Although it might be outside the scope of this particular project,
but this seems like exact sort of project "Ruby on Rails" was
designed for:
http://www.rubyonrails.org/

But, like I said, that might be off-base here.

-Ross.

On Sat, April 16, 2005 7:21 pm, J Crockett said:
> Liz,
>
> If the publicly accessible Web server, where the file resides, has
> FrontPage
> extensions and you have Microsoft FrontPage installed on your
> computer,
> there are wizards in FrontPage that will create the database
> results ASP
> Pages for you.
>
> Your database file must be in a "fpdb" directory on the Web
> server.  Open a
> new page in your FrontPage, click "Insert" - "Database" -
> "Results", and the
> wizard will open to create a connection to the database.  That
> will walk you
> through creating the query you want, or you can paste the SQL code
> for the
> query from MSAcccess as a custom query in the wizard.  More
> customization is
> possible than is apparent.  Play around with it and you'll find
> other
> solutions.  In the process, you could learn some ASP from
> examining the page
> source.
>
> Joleen
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]
> On Behalf Of LizPerlman.7901733 at bloglines.com
> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 10:47 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] MS Access data page
>
>
> I'm probably going about this all wrong, but this is the only
> option I have
> right now.  We have an MS Access database which we'd like to be
> able to
> query (but not update) via the Web.  I've been able to build a
> data access
> page in Access, but it insists on keeping the path what I
> originally gave it
> (a mapped drive), and will not accept a URL.  However, most people
> in the
> college do not have this drive mapped, nor do they have access to
> the
> server.  However, the file resides on a publicly accessible Web
> server.  I
> feel like I'm so close to making it work, but am not quite there.
> I do not
> know ASP so that's not an option right now.  Does anyone have a
> suggestion?
>
> Liz Perlman, MSLIS
>
> Systems Librarian
> Specker Memorial Library
> Calumet College of St. Joseph
>
> 2400 New York Avenue
> Whiting, IN  46394
> 219-473-4374 (office)
> 219-473-4259
> (fax)
> eperlman at ccsj.edu
>
>
>
>
>



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