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    Cool Access Tool

    Hello all,



    Is there any software out there that allows me to view the users in my database, and see which records they are in (if they are editing data or AFK in a record).

    I guess a transaction log of some sort with live updates constantly?

    Any thing out there like this?


    Thanks

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    None that I know of.

    I use a login/logout procedure.

    Identifying which records are in active edit sounds complicated.
    How to attach file: http://www.accessforums.net/showthread.php?t=70301 To provide db: copy, remove confidential data, run compact & repair, zip w/Windows Compression.

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    Gotcha,

    Thanks June7

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    nothing specific - I have used something similar for tracking use activity which is displayed so the user can go back to a previous action if required. Basic log is along these lines

    tblLog
    LogPK autonumber
    UserName text 'who
    ObjectName text 'form/report opened
    Key number long 'id of record working on (0 means a selection)
    Action text 'view, new, updated, appended - but also print/export/email etc
    TStamp date 'default=now()

    the log is always appended in the open event of all forms and reports and again in the before update event if triggered.

    Updated actions can trigger an entry in an audit log to indicate what has been changed

    Printing/Exporting/etc actions can trigger an entry in another audit log with the parameters used such as startdate/enddate etc

    Note I don't specify the table (it can get too complicated with subforms, multitable recordsources etc) and since this is primarily for the users benefit they don't have a view on tables anyway. However it would be possible to extend it to include tables if you wanted to - you would just need a mapping table of some sort to map tables to forms

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    There are any number of ldb viewers out there, such as:

    http://access.mvps.org/access/modules/mdl0055.htm

    I haven't used any, but it would surprise me if they showed the record being viewed/edited.
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    Notepad++ can view content of ldb/lccdb file. It can even edit it. I had a db where the lccdb would not go away, even though there were no users with the db open. Could not delete the lccdb. Opening and closing the db did not help. The lccdb showed same 3 users. I used Notepad++ to delete the lccdb content and then I was able to delete the lccdb file. Db runs as normal.
    How to attach file: http://www.accessforums.net/showthread.php?t=70301 To provide db: copy, remove confidential data, run compact & repair, zip w/Windows Compression.

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    Hey paul, is there any way I can modify this for Access 2013? I was able to edit the code and add .accdb to select options, but once I choose my database it throws me an error.

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    How about this (I'm just Googling, have never needed myself):

    http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/o...c-fb5825f48539
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    EDIT:
    I just tried the code from pbaldy's link above and works pretty well. You can't see what Records/Tables they're accessing, but it does seem to provide a close to real-time list of users in the database.

    If you want to use it with an ACCDB database though, you need to change the provider to Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0

    ORIGINAL POST:
    Quote Originally Posted by pbaldy View Post
    There are any number of ldb viewers out there....
    An LDB viewer won't be very useful as information can only be added to an LDB, not removed (as long as there is a user logged into the database). If there is always at least someone in the database all day, then users/computers will never be removed from the LDB even if they have logged out.

    For example: Alice logs into the database from ComputerA. Bob then logs in from ComputerB just before Alice logs out.

    If you look at the LDB file, it will still show Alice/ComputerA as being logged in. This is because Bob/ComputerB was logged in before Alice/ComputerA logged out, preventing Access from removing her information from the LDB file.

    I've run into situations where the LDB here at work will show one person as being logged in 2-3 times because of this. It also routinely shows people as being logged in when they haven't been using the database for several hours.

    The best way to see what users are logged in is to use a setup like June7 and Ajax described that manually tracks logins and logouts.

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    Hmm after changing the provider to Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0 I'm still getting error:

    Invalid Outside procedure

    It then highlights Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0 in code

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    Here's the (slightly modified) code I'm using:

    In Access 2010, the Reference I needed to add was the Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects 2.1 Library

    Code:
    Sub ShowUserRosterMultipleUsers()
        Dim cn As New ADODB.Connection
        Dim cn2 As New ADODB.Connection
        Dim rs As New ADODB.Recordset
    
        Dim i As Long
        Dim j As Long
        Dim strDatabase As String
    
        strDatabase = "C:\Northwind.accdb"
    
        cn.Provider = "Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0"
        cn.Open "Data Source=" & strDatabase
    
        cn2.Provider = "Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0"
        cn2.Open "Data Source=" & strDatabase
    
        ' The user roster is exposed as a provider-specific schema rowset
        ' in the Jet 4 OLE DB provider.  You have to use a GUID to
        ' reference the schema, as provider-specific schemas are not
        ' listed in ADO's type library for schema rowsets
        Set rs = cn.OpenSchema(adSchemaProviderSpecific, , "{947bb102-5d43-11d1-bdbf-00c04fb92675}")
    
        'Output the list of all users in the current database.
        Debug.Print rs.Fields(0).Name, "", rs.Fields(1).Name, "", rs.Fields(2).Name, rs.Fields(3).Name
    
        Do While Not rs.EOF
            Debug.Print rs.Fields(0), rs.Fields(1), rs.Fields(2), rs.Fields(3)
            rs.MoveNext
        Loop
    End Sub
    Edit: I think the cn2 ADODB Connection is just to make sure there's another "user" logged in when you run the Sub. It doesn't look like it's actually used anywhere.

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