Sharing a Database over a network. Shared is turned on however when others open database none of the buttons work. No error comes up it just flashes and nothing happens.
I am looking for my database to be opened and operated by more than one user.
It turns out that the issue was that the pop up of the form after the button was pressed wasn't appearing on the screen as apposed to there being any kind of access issue. Just in case anyone else experiences the same thing.
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I built and successfully split an Access 2013 db. The front end worked fine for months up until I last used it a few months ago. I recently went to open the front end but the Access window was frozen whereby everything (e.g., navigation pane, menus, controls, right click, etc.) was disabled, including the window control buttons to minimize, expand and close. The only way to close the view was to right click the Access icon in the task bar or 'ctrl-alt-delete' to open task manager and force close the application. I was met w/ similar results when attempting to open other versions of the linked front end; however, I can successfully open the back end and other Access db files that don't contain linked tables. When I get the 'frozen' screen I can see my linked tables and other db objects in the navigation pane, but the pop-up login form does not display and the entire window behaves like it is inactive, similar to how it behaves when selecting items behind the active login form.
To confuse matters even worse, I have one user (User 1) who has the same user permissions as me who does not experience any of the problems I described above and can work within the front end as expected; in fact, he and I are the only active users as we are still in the developmental phase of our project. One other layer of complexity, he tried to open the file w/ his network profile from my computer and ran into the same problems. We have one other user who we've since tested this problem with and she experiences the same issues as me on both her laptop and PC.
So, I thought maybe it had to do with the 32-bit version I unknowingly had installed when my OS was re-installed last month since User 1 had the 64-bit version which could explain why he couldn't open from my computer. BUT, I still experienced the same issues after re-installing the 64-bit version on my computer. I'm at a loss on where/how to proceed from here and my IT guys have done all they can to troubleshoot my problem as they are not familiar w/ Access and aren't much help at this point.
Anyone run into this problem before? Thoughts or possible solutions? Any and all help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
So, I disabled the code that prompted the login form and I was able to open the file. Based on User 1's experience, we determined that he hadn't installed updates since I was last able to open the file. As a result, we determined that an update I installed was not compatible w/ the aforementioned code resulting in the problems I described in my original post. I will re-create the code that drives the form's login and keep an uncoded version as back-up in case we experience similar issues in future updates so that we can troubleshoot from within the db rather than be locked out as we were.
I hardly dare bring up this topic because what is happening is so extremely strange - but I'll try anyway.
I have a large Access DB for a customer. One of the forms in the front end has a series of subforms. Until recently, everything was working well.
Now, when a new version of the front end is sent to the customer (I tried Team Drive as well as WeTranser) this results in one of the subforms being changed to a different form. This form is also in the database but is by no means linked to the main form in question.
I have tested this several times: The version on my PC is still working perfectly. The version that the customer sent back to me according to my request has the wrong subform in it.
We are all working on Access 2010 with an Access 2000 format MDB. The reason for this is that the Backend needs replication.
Does anybody have a clue on how or why this could be happening? Thanks in advance.
Found a solution myself after testing together with the customer.
Copied the file via USB stick this time. The copied file was OK on the destination system. Opened file pressing shift button so no programs would run. Everything was still OK. Then opened the file in the usual way. The start form realized that the paths had changed and relinked all the tables. Except for the start form, no other forms are involved in this operation. After that, the subform had changed to a different form.
Solution (rather: Workaround): Changed the name of the subform that replaced the correct subform. After that, everything went well.
The change of the subform only occurred during the relink routine. If the subform was changed to the correct one manually after relinking, it remained correct.
Reasons? Has Microsoft released updates to MS Access recently? We'll probably never know.
Recently, my team's Microsoft Access databases have been migrated from Access 2003 to 2010. Obviously that causes a many problems, but we got most of them figured out. There is one problem, however, that I can't seem to fix.
Many people use this Access application with no issues at all, but about three of my users are experiencing a peculiar problem.
There is a subform within a form and its contents get loaded through a query. There is a box for a picture, a text box, a check box, and a button on this subform. For myself and 99% of the people using the application, the picture loads and everything appears as it should. For the 3 people experiencing the problem, however, the entire subform is completely blank.
The data is stored in OLE Objects and everybody is using the same data.
I can't figure out why it would work for so many people but fail for others. Does anybody have any ideas?
Recently, we have had various MS Access 2012 apps become unresponsive to mouse clicks.
This happens in both in either run or design modes for forms, reports, queries, etc.
Usually, when I put the focus on another program by bringing it up and clicking in it, then go back to the Access app - it is then responsive.
Now it is happening to our Citrix users and the trick doesn't always work.
Anyone have any ideas, fixes, solutions?
I have an issue. I have an Access Project (currently in access 2007), and the project connection properties are set to point to a hosted SQL database on our network. Unfortunately we had to move the databasem and now I have to change the connection properties as well.
However, when I open the adp file, the first thing it does is try to connect to the old database. I never get prompted or anything, the screen just sits there, and the title bar eventually indicates "not responding".
Anyone know how I can get to the connection properties, since Access never gives me a chance to do so?
Have you tried keeping the shift key held down while the database is opening to prevent any start-up forms or macros from running? If that does not help, you can change all the connections from VBScript.