This might not be the right forum but give it a shot. I've created a "Frequently Called Phone List" as an Access DB with Access 97. I'm trying to incorporate it into the company's internal web site but when I place a "link" to the DB on the web site's home page and click on it I get the "Download Diaglog" (Some files may harm your computer, do you want to download or open from current location ....) Is there anyway to bypass this message and open the DB. If you click "Open from Current Location" everything works fine. All of my users have Access 97. Thanks!
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The prompting for the download or open of the database is nothing to do with HTML per se, it is web browser security settings.
It is very likely that you can create an ASP page taking the data directly out of the database held on the server as a web page, and any updates need only be made to the one master copy. With Windows NT/2000 servers it would be IIS and ASP, with Linux servers it would be most likely to be Apache and PHP.
If you can upgrade the machines to run Access 2000 or XP then the same thing can be achieved without server side support by using data access pages.
John
The prompting for the download or open of the database is nothing to do with HTML per se, it is web browser security settings.
It is very likely that you can create an ASP page taking the data directly out of the database held on the server as a web page, and any updates need only be made to the one master copy. With Windows NT/2000 servers it would be IIS and ASP, with Linux servers it would be most likely to be Apache and PHP.
If you can upgrade the machines to run Access 2000 or XP then the same thing can be achieved without server side support by using data access pages.
John
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