Hi ERMes Users,
I’m Jen Holman and I work with Galadriel and William at UW-La Crosse. I know just enough about web-enabling Access databases to be dangerous, but somewhat helpful. We use ERMes data as a backup when our A-to-Z list (currently powered by LibData from the University of Minnesota) goes down. Over the summer, I updated the existing ASP code to ASP.net. The code is now much simpler and ASP.net should be less taxing to your web server (which must be running at least ASP.Net 2.x).
Our page looks like this:
http://www.uwlax.edu/murphylibrary/research/databaselist.aspx
The data come from just three tables within ERMes:
To simplify matters, I created a new database (which lives on the web server) and pulled in just those three tables. This database is in Access 2003 format with an .mdb extension. To update the data, I just import the tables again.
The code is very simple as well:
I use SharePoint to load the database and ASP.net page to our web server. I am not sure what problems you may encounter loading this code, but please let me know.
I also have some questions for the ERMes community. I wonder if any other campuses are using the older code? Will you use the new code? Is there additional functionality you would like to see in an a-to-z list? Would anyone want to help develop new functionality, like paging?
Please respond in the comments.
A zip file containing the code and a sample database are available for download from the ERMes web site.