Recent content by bikeman77

I am a MORON! Thanks and sorry to waste your time. I simply did not have [Event Procedure] selected in the property selection of the form. DUH! Thanks again.

Hello all: I have a split, shared database in which the Before and AfterUpdate events on my forms are not working at all. I tried setting a breakpoint to verify this and, sure enough, they are not firing. Does anyone have any clue as to why this may be occurring? Thanks so much for the help...

Thanks a lot for that. That's pretty neat. However, I may still use my little form with the label displaying the shutdown message. I am not sure how to create a timed message box. I would like to have it so that if the user clicks a button on the message box like "Continue", for example, the...

What I finally ended up with was a form with a label stating that the database will shut down in x minutes. This form opens with the IdleTimeDetected(ExpiredMinutes) procedure. The form's Ontimer Event is set to shut the database down in however many seconds I choose. This way the user...

That is great ghudson! That works like a champ. I appreciate your help.

my fault... Thanks for the revelation Gizmo. I didn't even pay any attention to that. I was just so thrilled to have an application like that! Sorry for the trouble over my lack of attention to detail. :o Thanks a lot again.

Oh, sorry. That/those space(s) was/were a typo when I was formatting the color for the board. :o I am using Access 2000. I even copied the database and followed the instructions to the letter to see if it would work. It still shuts the application down regardless of the file name. Thanks...

FE/BE security question I can get security set up properly on the FE no problem. When I start the security wizard on the BE, the wizard wants to overwrite the workgroup file or create a new one. Do I use the workgroup administrator for this? Can I join the BE to the FE workgroup? Related...

Hi All: I have a multi-user database that is split into FE/BE. In order to perform certain tasks in the database, I need to have exclusive access to it. So, I either have to go around and close the DB myself or call the users to ask them to exit. I found this on the Microsoft Knowledge...