Where to start?

I have no experience publishing anything on the web.
I have written several semi-sophisticated apps using the Access (Jet)
database.
I don't see any possibility of using anything but Jet (e.g., can't use
whatever SQL db's one can access with ADO, unless there's a free one
embedded in MS Office somewhere?)

1 - Is there any hope of my publishing an Access application on the web?
One that allows updates?

If there's hope, could someone suggest where I should start my reading?
Should I learn to publish simpler things on the web first? Or does Access
take care of that?

TIA
Laurel

Laurel wrote:
> I have no experience publishing anything on the web.
> I have written several semi-sophisticated apps using the Access (Jet)
> database.
> I don't see any possibility of using anything but Jet (e.g., can't use
> whatever SQL db's one can access with ADO, unless there's a free one
> embedded in MS Office somewhere?)
>
> 1 - Is there any hope of my publishing an Access application on the
> web? One that allows updates?
>
> If there's hope, could someone suggest where I should start my
> reading? Should I learn to publish simpler things on the web first?
> Or does Access take care of that?

The first thing you need to know is how to create web applications because
you can only use Ascess/Jet for the data. You will need to use another set
of tools to create the entire application that you have in Access over again
only using web technologies like ASP.

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A few of the methods for web use of a Jet database:

(1) Data Access Pages -- these are the Pages in an .mdb ACCESS file. They
use ADO and VBScript, and have some severe limitations compared to
forms/reports. However, they use standard web browser features and can be
useful for many applications.

(2) ASP -- can be done via Front Page (MS). Many shopping cart programs (as
well as many other web applications) use them for database applications. I
believe they use ADO and VBScript as well, but I am less familiar with ASP.

You should obtain a book or two on web publishing methods, and take a look
at some of the newsgroups related to these. Good luck.
--

Ken Snell
<MS ACCESS MVP>



"Laurel" <FakeMail@Hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have no experience publishing anything on the web.
> I have written several semi-sophisticated apps using the Access (Jet)
> database.
> I don't see any possibility of using anything but Jet (e.g., can't use
> whatever SQL db's one can access with ADO, unless there's a free one
> embedded in MS Office somewhere?)
>
> 1 - Is there any hope of my publishing an Access application on the web?
> One that allows updates?
>
> If there's hope, could someone suggest where I should start my reading?
> Should I learn to publish simpler things on the web first? Or does Access
> take care of that?
>
> TIA
> Laurel
>
>