Ok first I need to say I know pretty much nothing about programming and the only thing I know about is HTML XHTML and Flash stuff that being said, I have a Microsoft Database setup at my school with all the students names, birthdates, social security numbers plus much much more I have a field for each thing [name] [dob] [social] and what im wanting to do is be able to display this databe within a web browser and I have done this with visual web studio or something like that, it creates a .asp document but when I close this program and click on the asp document I cannot view it unless the Visual studio is open as well is there a way to get around this or does anyone know of a databse program for offline use that is fully customizable or better yet does anyone understand what im trying to do?
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Surely this is joke! You plan on publishing to the web, for the world to see, including ID thieves, students names, DOBs and SSNs?
Hope you've got a good lawyer!
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No this is to be an offline database it will not ever see the light of the internet this computer is not ever going to be connected to a network unless it's connected to a .... VPN I think its called but no, no internet connectivityComment
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I suspect that Linq may have confused the web with the internet Chris, but as the two are so often considered synonymous it is sensible when talking of one without the other to be more clear about it.
As to your question, I'm afraid that I doubt there is much here that we Access experts can help with. It seems to be related more to the interface and what is available on that side of things. This is beyond the scope of Access as such (Access has its own internal development environment where we can be a lot more helpful).
If you would like this to be moved to a more appropriate forum please just let us know and we will move it for you happily.
As a general piece of advice, when dealing with such issues, as Linq has already intimated, it is very important that security issues are dealt with robustly. There must be strong control in the logic that restricts access only to those who warrant that level of responsibility.
Good luck and Welcome to Bytes!Comment
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Ok thankyou, and yes if you would like to move this to the rite location please do and just let me know where it is moved to.Comment
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I've moved it to the HTML/CSS forum.
Good luck and Welcome to Bytes!Comment
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Such asp files are served by Windows server software so just clicking on them, as one would do with a standard html file, will not do anything. Is your network served by a Windows server?Comment
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We have a server system set-up with a database of phone numbers and address for all the students it is ran with an access file on the server and it's displayed using an .asp document on all the other computers, the problem I have is this new file with the DOB and SSN will not be on the server it will be local on the actuall computer and will not have and connection to the netComment
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Ok let me try this another way and see, if im using a microsoft excell document or databse document to store information in fields is there a way for all that information to be displayed in an html document and be able to add information to it either through the databse or the html document itself? and maybe make this page searchable without having to press CTRL+F or possibly a standalone program for this, I used a program called fileamigo that worked great but after uploading over 1000 files into it, it slowly stopped working a files started missing?Comment
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nope, without a server (i.e. a server script) you can’t make any changes to a HTML file (javascript wouldn’t require a server, but has no access to the local file system).
if you don’t use a server, you can only use an application, that can manage all that (no HTML used directly)Comment
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Ok what about another way to go I am using a program called Visual Web Develepoer 2008 Express Edition I connected the access database .mdb file to the .asp document ??can you use anything besides access for this purpose?? and if not since I do not have access installed on my computer is there some way to use .wdb works file???Comment
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you’re probably better off asking that in the Windows or Access forum.Comment
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