Provider cannot be found . . .

Provider cannot be found, It may not be properly installed

Providers are ODBC Drivers used by Altium to connect to data sources.  Once connected to a data source through an ODBC driver Altium can read and write to the data source.

Data sources can be Excel, Access, MySQL, SQL and numerous other data sources with ODBC compliant drivers.

You can find the ODBC drivers installed on your machine by entering ODBC in the search box in the lower left corner of your desktop on Windows 10 machines.

"There are several reasons this message pops in your application or website. This article tries to clarify each particular situation."  Source - Connection Strings.

The 'Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0' provider is not registered on the local machine

Related Links: 

Using Database Libraries with 32-bit and 64-bit Altium
Jet for Access, Excel and Txt on 64 bit systems

To request technical support use the contact form on the Contact Parts page.

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New Features in Parts for Altium - Step Model Field

The latest release of Parts for Altium includes a Step Model field.



If the Parts_Backend does not have a Step Model field you will see #Name? in the Parts Frontend until field has been added to the Parts Backend.

MySQL Databases for Parts can be edited using MySQL Work bench.

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Parts Supports Multiple Users

Parts is split database solution that supports multiple users. The Parts Access backend (database) file should be placed in a shared folder on a file server to support multiple users.

See Benefits of splitting a database in this link: Microsoft - Share a split database 

The Parts Frontend application can be used to connect to Access or MySQL databases. 

Migrating Parts from MS Access to MySQL is simple using Export and Import tools included in the Parts Frontend.

The Parts Frontend (client) application should be installed on each user's machine only if the user needs to edit records in the database using the Parts Frontend.

Note that users (designers) who are only placing parts in an Altium design from the database library do not need the Parts Frontend application installed on their machines.

To place parts in a design users only need to install the *.DBlib Library in Altium.

The Parts Frontend is not required to use the free Parts database. The Parts Frontend is a tool that empowers librarians and designers to efficiently build and maintain the Parts database.

Download Parts and see for yourself how the Parts database library can dramatically increase your design team's productivity.

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