Re: Help! Need web page updates without CGI access to database

Access 97 will export directly to HTML using reports, tables, etc. (File | Save as HTML) You can even set up an HTML template to preformat your page. This sounds like a good solution until your programmers are available.

David Brady

sitc wrote:
>
> I have successfully used Access Database reports facility to write files
> direct form the database into HTML. It is simple just place the tags in
> the header an footer of the report design window.
>
> The pags http://www.skyejet.demon.co.uk/abcgener.htm
> and http://www.skyejet.demon.co.uk/reggener.htm
> are produced in this way (although some minor adjustments are necessary
> to tidy up the HTML).
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Neil
>
> In article <01bc9bd2$54b75630$652e5fcf_at_tonytong>, TalentSoft
> <info_at_TalentSoft.com> writes
> >Check out TalentSoft's WebPlus web application development tool for NT and
> >Unix at http://www.TalentSoft.com . You can easily develop web-based data
> >access applications using WebPlus.
> >
> >
> >Mike Lane <mlane_at_suffolk.lib.ny.us> wrote in article
> ><33d0d67e.911134_at_news.li.net>...
> >> Hello:
> >>
> >> I work for a college in NY and we are attempting to improve the
> >> ability of students to access our updated schedules. Obviously the
> >> best way to do this would be to provide CGI access through a web page
> >> to the schedule database in real time. Unfortunately this is not an
> >> option right now as the programmers are tied up on other projects for
> >> the foreseeable future.
> >>
> >> Here is what I can (and do) get right now:
> >>
> >> 1) A periodic download of the schedule in ascii text format
> >>
> >> 2) Access to the directory on the Risc that holds the schedule.
> >>
> >>
> >> What I have done is basically take the raw ascii output and manually
> >> reformat it and manually insert all the tags and links. What I want
> >> to do is figure out a way to automate this process so that I may take
> >> the ascii download and have a process that almost totally automates
> >> the process of reformatting, inserting tags and links, and posting to
> >> the web page. It also important that I be able to use a program that
> >> will do something like recognize the word Accounting in a certain
> >> context and auto insert a link to the page describing the accounting
> >> program.
> >>
> >> Once I have automated this as much as possible I can at least up the
> >> frequency of updates to once daily. I am willing to buy any software
> >> I need and have maybe 50 hours to work with (5 hours a week, ten
> >> weeks). If anyone has done anything similar to this (maybe with
> >> Access or Oracle) or has any ideas as to the best way to proceed I
> >> would sure appreciate your input. Please email me.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
>
> --
> Neil Gerrard
> Skye International Teleservice Centre
> Dunvegan Road
> Portree
> Isle of Skye
> IV51 8HJ
>
> Publishers of the 'Islander' magazine
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  Received on Sat Aug 02 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT