I am supposed to make our MS Access application work in parallel. Basically we will always at most be 3 people that need concurrent access (so from what I read this should not be too much of a problem traffic-wise).
Mostly we will all need to work on the same table (well, it’s actually 3 tables, but with this access tool you can always open the sub-tables directly by clicking on the +).
I am having a hard time finding information on how to do this, so any pointers to good articles would be welcome.
Also I would like to be able to see who changed what… So implement some sort of logging.
At the moment the database lies somewhere, we download it (write that it is in use), make changes and upload it back. It’s a stone-age solution and I need to change this asap.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
The easiest way is to stick the mdb/accdb file on a network drive, and make people open it from there, rather than copying it locally first. 3 concurrent users probably won’t crash it too often, but make sure you take regular backups.
As for logging, well, it’s easy enough to audit changes made via forms, but not so much with tables. Have a look at this thread http://forums.devarticles.com/microsoft-access-development-49/creating-audit-trail-of-all-edits-to-database-22382.html