Is ASP The Answer?

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Hi,

I have a general query about ASP and Access and hope that someone can kindly help me with some information.

I have an Access 2000 Db which mainly tracks work order jobs given to 3rd party contractors to complete.

I need to provide a facility for contractors to view their jobs over the internet. The idea is that they logon to a site using a password and user ID. On logon the website will display their allocated work jobs based on their user ID.

It will then provide a facility for them to select a particular job and update its status from a specified list of values in a drop down list. At the same time the date of update would be captured and added to the record.

I am looking for the simplest method of implementing this facility and I was wondering if using ASP is the best way to go.

Does ASP come with any limitations? For instance must a contractor have any particular software/drivers installed on their PC to be able to access and use the site or do they just need a browser?

Sorry if this question is not appropriate to this forum - please redirect me if so.

Any information or help gratefully accepted.

Regards,

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[BigRed1212]

A contractor visiting an ASP Web page designed to capture project status using an HTML form and a connection to a database would not need anything special outside of a browser.

This is the classic ASP forum, however, and many would consider classic ASP old technology, suggesting you develop your application in ASP.NET or something new and slick.

The answer to your question is yes ASP could be AN answer, maybe not THE answer.

 

[PaulBricker]

I use ASP and Access for almost the same thing you are talking about and it works very well.


Paul

 

[DotNetBlocks]

Yes, Asp and Access will work, but I would personally use ASP.net. Asp.net is much more powerful compared to classic asp, in my opinion.

Babloome