Greetings all,
So first post here, but it looks like an active, helpful community, so here goes.
I am working with a client who wants to make his current MS Access 2007 Reports available on demand in his web site. Currently, as I understand it, the managers of the company are being required to actually load MS Access and the active database to run the reports which exposes all of the data and linked tables to people who have no reason to modify them. So my client just wants them to be able to log into the admin section of the company website and request a report which he has already built in Access. I am trying to figure out how to get those reports to an ASP.NET application for the website to consume.
I have already spent a day looking at the Microsoft.Offic e.Interop library, and I don't think that that will cut it because I can actually get the HTML for the Report directly out of the application. All I can find is an option to save it to the hard disk which is inelegant and could easily cause problems with filename changes when I try to then load the document from ASP.
What I would like to see is a solution by which I can load the mdb or accdb file into the ASP application, access the Reports as a container and select the one I want by name, and then run it and collect the output in HTML to then simply echo to the webpage. Is there anything out there that can:
I haven't found such a method yet, and I am okay with the idea that maybe it isn't possible to do it that easily, but, at the end of the day, I need the HTML result of the Report to exist in memory as a String. Any thoughts?
Jason
So first post here, but it looks like an active, helpful community, so here goes.
I am working with a client who wants to make his current MS Access 2007 Reports available on demand in his web site. Currently, as I understand it, the managers of the company are being required to actually load MS Access and the active database to run the reports which exposes all of the data and linked tables to people who have no reason to modify them. So my client just wants them to be able to log into the admin section of the company website and request a report which he has already built in Access. I am trying to figure out how to get those reports to an ASP.NET application for the website to consume.
I have already spent a day looking at the Microsoft.Offic e.Interop library, and I don't think that that will cut it because I can actually get the HTML for the Report directly out of the application. All I can find is an option to save it to the hard disk which is inelegant and could easily cause problems with filename changes when I try to then load the document from ASP.
What I would like to see is a solution by which I can load the mdb or accdb file into the ASP application, access the Reports as a container and select the one I want by name, and then run it and collect the output in HTML to then simply echo to the webpage. Is there anything out there that can:
Code:
// Psuedo-code
Dim AccessFile As MSAccessFileOperator
Dim Reports As List(Of MSAccess.Reports)
Dim htmlResult As String
AccessFile = New MSAccessFileOperator("myDatabase.accdb")
Reports = AccessFile.Reports
htmlResult = Reports("MyReportName").toHTML
Jason
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