Deployment question

[loneranger27]

Hi,

Does anyone have any experience with the sage key product.
Does it require any other products to be able to use it.

What products do you like or not like?

And if I use a different deployment software do I still have to go through the added code that I have to add to my app to make it run on its own.

Any insight is appreciated.
Thanks

 

[Laois]

I would highly reccomend Sagekey. However it dose require Wise or InstallShield installation system. I would reccomend Wise, it's very easy to use. I have had about 4000 installations using Wise and Sagekey and have had no Access related products. Sagekey lets you install your Access application regardless of whether they have Access or not or if they do have Access it dosn't matter what version. So if your application is built in Access 2000 and your customer has Access 97, your application will use the runtime version of Access 2000 and your customer can continue to use Access 97 without any problems.

The other nice thing about Sagekey is that it combines the installation of the Access runtime and your application into one process. It does not use the Microsoft Runtime Installer so your customer won't even know it's an Access application.

Wise and Sagekey will run you close to $1000 so it's not cheap but then neither is dealing with customer support issues.

What ever you do, DO NOT use the Package & Deployment Wizard that comes with Access. It is beyond useless and if you have it install the Access Runtime which is a different from the version of Access already on the computer it will break the other version and cause all kinds of headaches.

Well that's my opinion.

Dermot

 

[loneranger27]

Thanks for your reply,

I have created the my database, and I have an .mde file which works fine. I have not created any special code for a runtime version. (Do I have to if I use the Wise Deployment) It seems that I have to add a lot of vba code to use the deployment wizard that is apart of the microsoft office. I guess I need some help. If I need to explain further please tell me.

Your response is appreciated.
thanks

 

[Laois]

You do not need to add any VBA code to your progam to use Wise or Sagkey. Sagekey takes care of it all. Sagekey is just a bunch of Wise scripts that will install your application along with the Access runtime and setup your application to run in runtime mode. This includes creating special shortcuts, registry entries, setting the title and the icon for your application. The instructions that come with Sagkey tell you what parts of the scripts you need to edit for your application. It's not diificult.

Dermot