Can Access progarm be downloaded and used with machine with no Acc

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I have an Access program that people can use to fill out a form, enter their
payroll, print their monthly report and mail it in.

Can this Access program be downloaded from my website and used by people
without Access on their machine?

Or can a person view my Access program on the internet, fill in the form and
mail it back without having Access on their machine? The person will open my
form on my website, select their category and enter their payroll for the
month. My program will calculate their monthly premium in report format which
will need to be printed out and mailed in with their check. There will be
multiple clients using this each month. The clients are not changing anything
on my database. They will be only using my form for the automatic calculation
of their monthly premium displayed as a report.

The client will be charged annually for this service. I would like to have
the program set to expire in 12 months. Is there an internal setting that can
be placed in the program that will have a pop up notification warning the
client that the program will expire in 7 days? Then they would have to go on
line and purchase it again.
Thanks for your help.
 
mpjr said:
I have an Access program that people can use to fill out a form, enter
their
payroll, print their monthly report and mail it in.

Can this Access program be downloaded from my website and used by people
without Access on their machine?

Or can a person view my Access program on the internet, fill in the form
and
mail it back without having Access on their machine? The person will open
my
form on my website, select their category and enter their payroll for the
month. My program will calculate their monthly premium in report format
which
will need to be printed out and mailed in with their check. There will be
multiple clients using this each month. The clients are not changing
anything
on my database. They will be only using my form for the automatic
calculation
of their monthly premium displayed as a report.

The client will be charged annually for this service. I would like to have
the program set to expire in 12 months. Is there an internal setting that
can
be placed in the program that will have a pop up notification warning the
client that the program will expire in 7 days? Then they would have to go
on
line and purchase it again.
Thanks for your help.
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I have done a few applications of this nature and I'd advise you strongly to
look into using Microsoft Terminal Server to accomplish this. Access runs
only on your server, taking input from the client's keyboard and mouse and
sending only screen changes back to the client (a la Citrix). The client
doesn't need to have Access installed, there are no problems with clients
running different Access versions and you can expire their account without
resorting to 'clever' security measures (just revoke their server login, or
change their password). No need for email; the data can be stored either in
a table (preferred) or in a file on the server.
 
Can this Access program be downloaded from my website and used by people
without Access on their machine?
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No. access is required. You can purchase a license to distrubute he Access
Runtime (now free for 2007)
Or can a person view my Access program on the internet,
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No. You could create a web page (data access page or ASP) front end that
can be used.
The client will be charged annually for this service. I would like to have
the program set to expire in 12 months. Is there an internal setting that can
be placed in the program that will have a pop up notification warning the
client that the program will expire in 7 days? Then they would have to go on
line and purchase it again.
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If you make it web based where he have to log in you could easily do that.


You could use terminal services or citrix. The problem would be if they need
top print something back top there local print. The current Access database
can be used.

Doing it web based with be the most hands off approach. It will require more
programming efforts but you will not have a printing issue.
 
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You could use terminal services or citrix. The problem would be if they
need
top print something back top there local print. The current Access
database
can be used.

Doing it web based with be the most hands off approach. It will require
more
programming efforts but you will not have a printing issue.
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No problem with printing. You simply instruct the Terminal Services client
software to print locally. So long as the report contains no
printer-specific features and is set to print to the default printer, this
works seamlessly (or it always has done for me).
 
Thanks for the input. I need to do more digging as I am not familier with
Microsoft Terminal Server or Citrix.
 
Thanks for your response. I need to do more research to become more familar
with the specifics you referred to.
 
I have a website where I sell downloaded programs: word and excel. I am
developing a MS Access program that I would like for people to use on the
internet since most do not have Access on their machine. They would open the
program, fill in the form and print out the report with all calculations.
When I asked my web service if they supported "Terminal Services" or "Citrix"
their reply was as follows:

Sorry, but for security purposes we do not support any application-level
scripting such as ASP, PHP or personal Databases.

The functionality for most implementations is already built in to your
website, so if you're unsure, just describe what it is you are trying to do
to our Support team, and we'll be happy to help find an alternative solution.

For your reference, our list of unsupported technologies includes (but is
not limited to):

CGI scipts
Perl scripts
ASP
PHP
CGI-BIN
Java
JSP
UNIX and Linux items
mySQL (database)
Any personal database

We do provide support for you to use your own HTML and JavaScript. Please see:

How do I add HTML or JavaScript to my web page?
http://www.shoppingcartsplus.com/hp/kb.htm?id=8

My question is does this mean I have need to develop another website and use
a service that supports "Terminal Services"?

Thanks for your professional input.

Miles
 
mpjr said:
When I asked my web service if they supported "Terminal Services" or "Citrix"
their reply was as follows:
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They clearly didn't have a clue what you meant by Terminal Services or
Citrix. And thus are very likely running Linux as a server. So not
possible with your current hosting service.

Tony
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