i would like to distribute an access front end to some people and i want to make sure that they do not edit anything in it; however when i change the extension to ACCDR it makes all the forms and tables disappear. what settings do i have to change in order for them to be able to open forms but not view them in design view or make any changes to the forms?
The accdr extension puts your Access application into the "runtime" mode of Access, meaning the end user does not have the ability to see the built in navigation tools within Access. You would need to provide the navigation mechanism within the application yourself (for example, a startup form with links to the forms \ tables you want the users to be able to interact with).
The accdr extension hides objects from the user, but it does not prevent them from changing the file extension back to accdb and modifying your code \ objects.
To completely "lock down" the application you need to create an accde file instead. This prevents the user from being able to open a form in design view and make changes.
The following two links provide additional information about the file types and ways to deploy your application:
Intro to the Access 2007 file format
Deploy and Access 2007 Application
Related
I'm new to ServiceNow and have been following the Learning Path on the Developers site. I created a Jakarta Instance and have been making my way through the tutorials. However, I have been consistently running into problems where I am missing configuration options when creating application files. I can't properly set up UI Policies, Events, Notifications, etc. because I'm missing specific options like being able to write scripts and more. I have switched to the "Advanced View" in the "Related Links" but to no avail. The account is an Administrator account and has not been modified at all since the creation of the Instance. Is there something I am missing? Other developers following this track with me currently do not have the same problems so I'm wondering if its account specific or something with configurations. I've attached my Notification file; even in Advanced View, it is missing "Send When" and "Advanced Condition" script.
An example of options not loading: Notification Application File Example
Double check that you are under the Advanced view for these sections.
These should be there for you, Send when and Advanced condition are under the When to send tab within the Advanced view.
If you don't see these under the Advanced view, you should be able to manually add the fields using the Form Designer.
Take a look at the documentation at Form design.
In short
Go to your instance and go to Settings Gear > Developer and change Application to Global
Right click the header and go to Configure > Form Design.
Verify you've selected the Advanced view
Drag the missing fields to the form.
Click Save
Change the Application back to the one you are working with
I have a Air/Flex desktop application and I'm trying to create a component within the app that can view files on the web server is is already connected to. It just needs to access one particular folder that will contain PDFs, Images & Word documents. I also want the ability to click on the files and having them open in their default desktop applications.
Is this possible and how would I go about doing this?
It's possible but not with your Flex/AIR app alone. It cannot view files/directories on server by itself but it can communicate with your server via webservices, AMF, or any other back end based service. Typically the back end reads the folder and send this information to your app. Your app can open those files in corresponding app but only if those files are available on disk so your app will have to download them prior to opening them.
Every Application has different needs but I myself usually save anything to a desktop or you can use the App storage container as well. As I use only the desktop I download what is needed OR been asked for, and the visitor has the choice of keeping it or if not needed it gets automatically deleted! this way you can use whatever PDFs, Word, Images etc. use read and write (re-write) as well as creating PDFs on the fly with Images, text etc, and that way a visitor also can print directly at his or her own leisure. regards aktell
I am trying to write a web based application that allows the user to open a document in a browser window and edit it with some sort of editor such as MS Word (any editor will work) and then let the user save the document and have it stored in a database. I can get the document open in the browser window, but I don't know how to save it back to the database. Is this possible? The database is on the server side, not the client side.
Thanks.
This will be pretty tricky to do.
You'd probably need a Word macro or something to detect when the file is saved and then process whatever code on your server would be needed to process it.
My advice would be to use an existing browser-based document editor like Google Documents and hook into its API to do whatever database work you need.
Otherwise this will be tiresomely complex (what editors will you support? can you run arbitrary code against a user's machine? what if they're offline? etc).
Building a workflow that allows a file to be dynamically moved via user input (renames, the whole works). Using the Service Action, a web service will rename and move the file based on user input fields and some other behind the scenes processing. However, once the service runs and the window closes, the file is move but the user experience goes bad. The file keeps refreshing in the preview pane, redirects back to the root, and nothing works right until you navigate away.
The ideal solution would be the for the file to be moved and the user moved to the next file in the folder (or at minimum kept in the folder) as we're looking at a "processing" folder.
Is there any ideal best practice? Do I simply just need to copy the file instead of move and then run a delete routine after-the-fact?
It may be best for you to contact Box via email at API at Box dot com to explain better what your application is trying to accomplish. Generally describing the business case helps us resolve questions like this more quickly.
I have an old Access 2000 app (I don't do much Access dev these days) that a client is trying to run in Access 2007. It runs fine for the most part, except the forms do not behave as-designed when they are called/instantiated, etc: Access 2007 puts every new form inside a "Tab" of sorts, which is causing confusion on the part of the end user (modal forms they can't "tab out of," etc., seems to be the kind of thing they are mentioning).
It was designed as a typical MDI app, and ran fine that way for years. Is there a way to override Access 2007 "taking over" the forms handling?
Yes. Set Document Window Options to Overlapping Windows, then save the database (which should persist it to subsequent runs).
From here:
By default, Microsoft Office Access
2007 databases display as tabbed
documents. To use windowed documents,
click the Microsoft Office Button
Button image, and then click Access
Options. In the Access Options dialog
box, click Current Database and, under
Document Window Options, click
Overlapping Windows.
More information about transitioning to Access 2007 here as well.