"Need" is always a relative term.
In my experience, as a general rule, developer-created internal security
systems are not as secure as Access's own security.
Which is not to tout Access Security -
a simple Google search will find you several low-cost options to crack
even that.
I've contended for some time that if you have an internal application, and
employees who are clearly circumventing the established rules about who can
do what in that application, you have an HR problem more than an IT problem.
As for the help files -
I'm not connected with Microsoft, other than as a user, but I see Help
file development like this:
You can't write an effective help file until the product is finished,
because what you document could change.
Once the product is finished, there's tremendous pressure to release it -
nobody wants to wait for the help files to be finished.
You can still find scattered references in the Help files to using
Access on McIntosh machines - something which has never, to my knowledge,
gotten past the drawing boards.
It's also been my experience that the quality of Access Help files has
declined with each release. (I still sometimes go back to Access 97 help,
because it's so much easier to find things there. But I can remember when
that first came out, how much I missed the printed Access 2.0 help.)
Nevertheless, Access Help is the first place I go to answer my Access
questions, and it's rare for me to have to go further than that. It's a
good product, but not perfect - doesn't excuse us from doing our own
thinking. But then, that's what we programmers do, isn't it?
"Paul V" <pr*******@shaw.ca> wrote in message news:42**********@127.0.0.1...
I have setup my own internal security to limit users to specific
activities so it sounds to me like I do not need to use the Access
Security.
On another note, I put my current project backend to an mde because
somewhere in the help file I read that both files must be mde to work
although an older project I worked on I did exactly as you said...My
frontend is a mde and the backend is an mdb. I wonder why the help file
says that won't work.
Thanks for your input(s),
Paul .V.
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