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MS Access Front End

 		4/10/2006 9:46:38 AM
ASPRunnerPro General questions
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 chfman author

Is it possible to point AspRunner to a front end Access DB so that the original backend can still be utlized outside of the webpage?
I ask because there are certain features in the original DB that I do not know how to replicate yet with Asprunner for the web version so we were going to try to maintain those functions by keeping the original DB in a place people can access while the web version can also be used.
Any ideas??
Sergey Kornilov admin 4/10/2006

I'm not quite sure what is the point AspRunner to a front end Access DB.
Could you clarify this a bit?
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 		chfman author 4/10/2006

When I run the ASPRunner generator against my database, it makes a complete copy of the database that it uses. The data changes on the webpage then only feed back to the 'copy' of the database that Asprunner made when I generated the asp pages.
I wanted to know if I could point ASPRunner to an access database that contained only 'linked' tables so that changes on the webpage would feed to a backend Access DB off the server that would still be accessible by users without having to use the webpage.
Sergey Kornilov admin 4/10/2006

When you build ASP pages uncheck Server.MapPath option on database connection screen. In this case ASP pages work with your original database file.
In this scenario both MS Acess frontend and web application work with the same data copy.