Has anyone EVER seen this message?

Im trying to create a form using the design wizard. when i
go to open the form i get this message:

"The Wizard is unable to open your form in Form view or
Datasheet view, possibly because another user has a source
table open in exclusive mode. Your form will be opened in
Design view."

What does this mean?

"Jerry" wrote:

Im trying to create a form using the design wizard. when i
go to open the form i get this message:

"The Wizard is unable to open your form in Form view or
Datasheet view, possibly because another user has a source
table open in exclusive mode. Your form will be opened in
Design view."

What does this mean?

You are sharing the MDB with other users. That works ok, although
prone to corruptions, until you want to change an object such as you
are now attempting to do. Access 2000 and newer won't let multiple
people in the same MDB when objects are being updated.

You want to split the MDB into a front end containing the queries,
forms, reports, macros and modules with just the tables and
relationships. The FE is copied to each network users computer. The
FE MDB is linked to the tables in the back end MDB which resides on a
server. You make updates to the FE MDB and distribute them to the
users, likely as an MDE.

See the "Splitting your app into a front end and back end Tips" page
at http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/splitapp/ for more info. See the
Auto FE Updater downloads page
http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/autofe.htm to make this relatively
painless.. It also supports Terminal Server/Citrix quite nicely.

Tony
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