Sending messages to clients

[Crowley16]

Is it possible to send messages to people who have a front end of a database open?

the front end lives on thier local computers, and the messages should would be any sort of msgbox.

basically I'm wondering if I could initiate a msgbox event on all database front ends which currently is accessing the back end...

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[Di0genes]

Hello,

the only possible solution is a timer event whitch check a entry in a special table on your backend.

A other solution is, to check who is logged in to your backend and send a Msg per "net send".

thats it
Regards

 

[Crowley16]

so, how do I find out who's logged into the back end?

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[Remou]

Hi
Have you see this thread?
VBA code to kick off logged users before maintenance
thread705-79802

 

[rubbernilly]

Besides just using network tools to see who has the file open, there are Access ways.

Look here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/285822/

Also, do a search on this site for programmatically attaching to the LDB to see who is in the database. There was a pretty handy utility linked to in a recent discussion.

 

[Crowley16]

very useful thread remou, cheers...

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