latest version of db

[swami1912]

if the users download a database and they have not been using the latest version, is there way to check the db with its back end and make sure ,users are warned with a message- saying "please open the most current one"?

 

[John W. Vinson]

if the users download a database and they have not been using the latest version, is there way to check the db with its back end and make sure ,users are warned with a message- saying "please open the most current one"?

Not automatically; you must make a provision to do this check yourself. One
way would be to have a table in the backend containing the version number of
your latest version, and another table in the frontend containing that
frontend's own version number; in the Open event of the frontend's startup
form you can compare the one against the other.

But no, there is nothing built in to Access to do this for you.
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[Access Developer]

If I understand your question, you may find the article at
http://accdevel.tripod.com/versioning.htm of some help.

As John Vinson has stated in an earlier response, you'll have to write code
for this because Access does not automate that functionality for you.