Configure and Distribute Parts

Configure the Parts application

The Parts librarian can easily configure and distribute the Parts Frontend.

Use the Frontend application to create and save the configured application.

Then Zip up and distribute the configured Parts_Frontend to your users.

Zip up the Parts_Frontend file and place the Zipped file in a shared network drive folder.

Instruct users to copy the zip file and extract the Part_Frontend file in a folder on their local C:\ drive.

Notes:

If users have Access 2010 or higher installed on their machine they can run the Parts_Frontend.accde.

If the users do NOT have Access 2010 or higher on their computer they can install the free Microsoft Access runtime and run the Parts Frontend.

Steps for Upgrading to the latest version of the Part Frontend:

Save a copy of your existing Parts Frontend in the event you want to roll back to the older version.

Download and Drop the latest Parts_Frontend in the same folder where your previous version of the Frontend was installed.

Place the Zipped and Configured Parts_Frontend file in a shared network drive folder.

To keep the users on the same version of the Parts Frontend, instruct users to copy and extract the zipped Parts_Frontend file to a folder on their local C:\ drive.

Related Link: Moving and Sharing Parts

That's it !