Ive done a fair amount of searching on this, but ive struggled to find the answer.
At present I have an access program that sits on a remote windows 2008 server and users can log into it through a remote app. In the local version of my program, users can hit a button and email through outlook, but obviously if your accessing it remotely it tries to open outlook remotely.
So here's the question: Is there any functionality that will allow me to open Outlook locally whilst using the remote app?
Ive read about scriptable virtual channels but i would like someone to confirm if this is possible (or call me a moron for even contemplating the idea).
Thanks in advance.
Split the database. Your client will then open Outlook locally.
Here is some info that might be helpful if you do not know how to split the database and what the benefits are: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/access-help/split-an-access-database-HA010342026.aspx
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I am currently in the process of creating a website, and I am now in the phase of trying to create a registration database. Currently, I have the databse running through localhost, using phpmyadmin and mySQL. But, when I publish the website itself, I want for each person, when they register, for their information to go to a database. I am quite new to database design and development, so I was wondering about how I should go about doing this? At the current moment, given its setup, I am sure that there will be an error caused if someone else tries to submit their information into the registration page because their computer is not holding the server. How may I resolve this? I hope that my question was clear...
I already have php code that sends the registration info to the database, but I know that it will only work on my computer.
The browser runs on the user's computer
The HTTP server runs on a hosting computer
The database server runs on a hosting computer
These can all be the same computer (and in the development environment you've described: they are).
When you deploy it to a production environment, the HTTP server will be public facing. The user's browser can connect to it from anywhere* on the Internet.
Since the HTTP server runs the PHP which talks to the database server, it doesn't matter that the database isn't stored on the end user's computer.
* Issues such as the great firewall of china aside
As of your comment, D_A, I would say that your registration system should work fine.
PHP code may contain "localhost" But you are sending request from "Form" submit or JS. Which makes request in URL. For example:
http://example.com/register?name=x
I'm fairly new at building Electron apps and I've seen a lot of examples where Electron app connects directly to a remote database (MySQL in my case) so I started wondering what the problems might be with doing it that way. My first thought was to have a remote API (built on top of Express) which would communicate with the database and Electron app (React) would just utilize that API.
Any advice? Thoughts?
Thanks.
A problem with directly connecting to the database is you have to embed the database credentials in the electron app which makes them available to anyone who wants to snoop through the code. In addition, once the credentials are exposed, you lose control over what anyone can do to your database.
This is why you would usually give the user their own credentials, have the user authenticate to a web server and then have the web server be the only one who can directly talk to the remote database. You can then completely control what happens to the database since your web server is the intermediary and the only one that actually talks to the database.
This doesn't mean that there aren't some circumstances where you might want the client to talk directly to the database as it really depends upon what you're doing, what the data is and what the risk exposure is for allowing untrusted code to directly manipulate the data in the database.
Remember, you cannot protect credentials embedded in a client. They can be discovered by the client and used for other things.
i may be going about this the wrong way and would appreciate guidance on how it should be done. :)
I have a windows 7 computer on which i have installed thinVNC (Remote desktop application)
i liked it because its cross platform and does not need the clients to install anything on their devices to connect to the computer.They simply use a HTML 5 enabled browser to connect.
The purpose of this is so that they can get to a Microsoft access database on the computer, log in to it and perform some transactions.
Now, when one person logs in they see the desktop and interact with it and thats fine. However, when another person connects to the computer, they basically watch as the first user goes about using the database. Which i think is the purpose of this kind of software!
So i guess what i want is that each user gets their own fresh "session" if you like, like having the file on a network drive. So users connect to the computer,don't see others using the system and there's a folder where i have granted access to external users and placed the database in it. They will then doubleclick the file icon and be able to login etc.
So what is the best way to achieve this? ideally i don't want the user to have to install any software to be able to connect, but if its unavoidable then so be it.
thanks
Why not use Microsoft's built in remote desktop? There's a version for most (if not all) devices now and it would let you just setup multiple accounts on the Win 7 pc and get each user to log into them individually.
I have created a folder that all users have full control over. In this folder is my backend, while the frontend resides on the local hard drive. I can open the database on my development computer, even over the network. On all other computers, the system simply loads the access welcome screen, or access opens and closes automatically.
Can there be virus protection or a firewall blocking this? I have enabled network connections, and allowed all vba projects, etc.
Can there be a reference issue? If I have a reference for an Outlook library, and have compiled the file into accde format, would this prevent any error messages and simply cause the database to fail? I can open the backend tables on all computers, it is just the frontend that will not open.
Any suggestions will be helpful. I am not at the site, so I will take all suggestions and try them when I return.
A few things come to mind:
Have a look in the Windows Event Log.
Another issue could be happening if the locations where the front-end is located has not been added to the list of Trusted Locations in MS Access.
If you put the accdb front-end on the user's machine, can it be opened? Do you get any error?
As you mentioned, there could be a reference issue. Try to remove the reference and convert your early-binding with late binding instead (use CreateObject).
Add some sort of logging to your application and log as much as possible to a text file from the startup sequence of your application. This may let you know if there is some of your startup code that fails.
For my websites I use Dreamhost. Dreamhost requires you to create a hostname (ex: mysql.mclindigital.com) that the database will reside on. For me it's simple, if I want to access phpMyAdmin, I simply navigate to mysql.mclindigital.com, and it enters into phpMyAdmin automatically.
Apparently Dreamhost is in the minority using this method, because most people seem to use "localhost". So, how do I access phpMyAdmin for these websites? Will I need to get their Web Panel login info to browse around for this info?
As an example, I had a past client and I had to go here: http://216.120.237.104:2082/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin/index.php to get into their phpMyAdmin. I never really understood what I was doing, but it just worked. Now I am in the same situation, but this time the client isn't as tech-savvy and is unable to give me the URL I need to go to.
Also, I should point out I am not 100% certain that they have phpMyAdmin installed. I do know they have a database however, because they are running a Wordpress Blog.
There is nothing magic or special about phpMyAdmin. It is just
a bunch of php scripts.
Some webhosts(Such as dreamhost) may install it as standard
similary to formmail and a bunch of other tools they may install.
Your problem is most likely that you client don't have
phpMyAdmin installed, and the easy solution(If you have ftp access)
is to go to http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php download
phpMyAdmin, configure it and then just upload it to their ftp server
your self. Then you can acces it similary to any other php script.