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Remote Database and Office Database
Hello,
My boss would like to have several of his field employees (9) have an Access application on there laptop/netbook device so when they visit customers, they can input data into the database. They will not have access to the internet or any type of Remote connection. This will be a stand-alone Access application on their laptop. ( Field person will meet with 10 customer a day.) My two questions have to do with when the field employees come back into the office. What will be the best way to a) get data from their version of the database on their laptop into the Office database? a) Should I user Replication Manager or b) would it be easier in the long run to write (vba) code to move the data between the laptop database and the Office database? If this is the route to take, how would I connect (using vba code) from the Field version of the database to the Office version? or c) export the appropriate data to a separate file? For some reason, I'm thinking if I can steer clear of the Replication Manager, I'll have fewer headaches. Is this true? And my second question would have to do with any changes that I would need to make to the data structure. How do I update the Field databases? Again, would it be better to write the vba code to modify the data sturctures instead of using Replication Manager? I envision very few changes to the database sturcture. But I can see forms, reports, queries... being added or updated. Thank you, Timothy |
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