using access as html pages over intranet

I would like to make my access program into html pages and allow them to be accessed through the intranet in my work. This is in order that users would be able to work with my program without having to install access on their computers. Does anyone have any tips or any reading material about this???
Thanks.

There are many different ways to go about doing what I believew you are trying to do. I would need to know alittle more about your program first though. One way would be to use access as your backend database and use Front Page or Dreamweaver or some other web design tool that lets you access databases to design a front end to your Access DB.

You could also use some of the MS Visual Tools for front end design to your Access DB.

Another thought would be, depending on what this project is for and the number of users who will access the DB, to use a MySQL or other free relational DB (I mention MySQL because it is free and work in Windows and *nix environemnts) as you backend and use the methoisds I mentioned above for the front end design.

Good Luck

Hey there,
I have a question connected to your thread. I want to post Access database over intranet using IIS (Internet Information Services). Does anyone have an answer to this question?
Thanks!
Codruta Crisan

Here is something I put together about ASP that hopefully might help somehow.

You and others can have access to a database hosted on the Web from any location that has a browser with an Internet connection.

The Web database concept makes sense if you and your people want to do work in various locations in or outside the office and still be "plugged" in.

For example you could have employees enter timesheets or have sales reps log their contacts. Or perhaps you'd like customers to be able to check the status of their orders online without having to call the company.

If you want a Web database, typically what would happen is that a database such as Access or MySQL (basically just consisting of tables) would be put on the Web.

Then "dynamic" Web pages (actually ASP pages which include VBScript, HTML, and/or JavaScript) would be created acting like the old desktop database's queries, forms, and reports to access the database - all hosted on a Web Server.

Dynamic Web pages are similar in many ways to regular HTML pages. But they are "live" because the user can read from and write to information in the database. An example where you can login and add, edit, or view fictional customers and invoices is at http://www.bullschmidt.com/login.asp

Not all Web hosts will handle dynamic Web pages but many do. The Web hosts that can handle ASP pages usually have a Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 operating system running an IIS Web server.

Here are a few good ASP sites:
o ASP101 Samples - http://www.asp101.com/samples
o W3Schools ASP Tutorial - http://www.w3schools.com/asp
o Microsoft VBScript Language Reference - http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting...vbscripttoc.htm

And the following newsgroup is good:
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general

Or for a "quick and dirty" generic ASP open source solution to putting databases on the Web that just requires setting up a configuration page for each table or query and uploading the database to the Web as long as there is an autonumber field in each table (and you'll probably also separately want to create login capabilities), perhaps try something like this:
GenericDB by Eli Robillard
http://www.genericdb.com and then click on the Tips link to see an example