I am currently on a mission and I’m facing a problem that I have never had to deal with before:
A classic Access 2003 database contains several tables that have to be updated by people located at different places in the company. What is the best way to enable different people to enter data in the tables ? Here are the few I have though of:
- the worse: each personn will modify the ONLY database file that will be sent to each people that want to update it
- the database is located on a server and people will connect to it, using forms to enter the data
- each time a person will have to enter data in the database, we will extract the table to Excel and then the person will modify it before it will be reimported to Excel
I guess (and hope) that the best solution is not among the three above, I need your advices, thank you !
The usual solution is to split the database into front and back-ends. The front end is placed on each user’s desktop and contains forms and reports. The tables are linked frrom the back-end, which is on a shared directory on your server.
More info: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa167840(v=office.11).aspx