RE: Event when Access table is accessed through ODBC ?

That is entirely possible. You'll be using a hidden form with code behind its
onTimer() event - along with a value for the Timer property (The Timer
property determine how often the onTimer Event occurs.

"Sverk" wrote:

Another setback -- thanks anyway.
But how about this:
1/ In the Access table I keep a special record for this linking purpose.
2/ IMatch code then writes to (updates) this record & field the record
number (or similar) that it wants Access to show.
3/ Access has a routine that keeps watching this linking record.
4/ When there is a change in there Access updates the form it is showing
with data from the requested record. Done!?
I can see at least one problem: If Access is watching that record for
changes through a loop that reads it all the time it wouldn't be nice, and it
might choke the processor.
Could of course set a timer to make it check only once per second or so.
But the crucial thing is then is whether and how a change in the database
file (through ODBC) is reflected in a form that is showing data from that
table.
Would it require repeating refreshes or what?

So, if you can bear with all this, any comments to this last chance?
--
Sverk


"dch3" skrev:

Access does not support triggers. At the table level, Access has no way of
knowing that anything at all has been done to the records.

Access is a file-based database which means that all data is stored in a
file and its up to the application running on your PC to work with it. A
Client-Server database has two parts - the part on the PC (Client) that makes
the request to the server. Only Client-Server databases, such as SQLServer,
Oracle, etc, support triggers.

"Sverk" wrote:

OK, thanks, I see.
Then I figure I might get my thing done by having IMatch not just making a
Read but also an insignificant Update to the record in the Access table, just
to trigger the code in there.
Thus what you say, "Client-Server based databases allow you set Triggers on a
table (code that executes when a record is INSERTED, UPDATED or DELETED)",
that could be what I need.
Could you please indicate how to set up such a trigger?
Is there a special way for such triggers?
Or would it simply(???) be like if the table is open and showing in a form
there would occur a useful form-event whenever a record in the table is
updated through ODBC?
Would it then also indicate which record was updated?
All help appreciated,
--
Sverk


"dch3" skrev:

Sorry, but there are no table-level events. Its only at the form or report
level. Also, while Client-Server based databases allow you set Triggers on a
table (code that executes when a record is INSERTED, UPDATED or DELETED),
there's nothing to my knowledge that checks when a table is being otherwise
accessed - as in Read. That'd be more of a function of the engine driving the
database.

"Sverk" wrote:

Hi,
I have an Access 2007 table of photo-films and I use IMage for handling of
digitized photos.
I need to link these two applications in certain ways.
From IMage I am able to access the Access table through ODBC, read and
update etc.
Fine, and next thing is to get Access to synchronize with these ODBC calls.
Whenever IMage calls on a record in the Access table, I want Access to
display that record in a form, or something like that.
So here are my questions:
Assuming the Access database is open, what I need is an event that gets
triggered when it is accessed from another application through ODBC.
Is there any? Where do I find it?
And, how do I know in the Access code which record is being accessed?

See what I mean?
Help please,





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