OfficeTalk Data Access Toolkit

The OfficeTalk Data Access Toolkit provides access to your OfficeTalk database using programs such as Crystal Reports and Microsoft Access Versions 2 and 7, allowing you to create reports that are unavailable in OfficeTalk itself. In addition, data can be added to the database and existing data manipulated using tools such as Visual Basic. This provides IT Departments and System Integrators with the ability to integrate OfficeTalk more closely with other systems.

The OfficeTalk Data Access Toolkit works by creating a complete set of Data Definition Files (DDFs) for every data file in your OfficeTalk data structure. The DDFs can then be simply used by Crystal Reports to report on your data, or by Access Versions 2 or 7 to create an Access Database which is linked to your data.

In addition to providing access to data already available in OfficeTalk in a different form, the DDFs will also provide accesss to other information not normally available within OfficeTalk, such as Task, Booking and other record creation dates.

The open version of the OfficeTalk Data Access Toolkit available for download creates Definition Files for users' Diary Bookings and Task Lists. These DDFs provide full read/write access to the data tables. As such, we suggest that access to the Toolkit and any DDF's produced is restricted and that the DDFs are used with care. If you wish to generate the complete set of OfficeTalk DDFs, you will need to purchase the full license for the OfficeTalk Data Access Toolkit and obtain a password from Sareen Software.

NO HARM CAN BE CAUSED TO YOUR UNDERLYING OFFICETALK DATA STRUCTURE PROVIDED DDFs ARE USED ONLY TO READ DATA.

The fully licensed version of the OfficeTalk Data Access Toolkit provides complete read/write access to any area of your OfficeTalk data structure. As such, the Toolkit could be used to modify the contents of a table without making the consequent modifications to related tables. This would destroy the referential integrity of your OfficeTalk data structure, rendering OfficeTalk at worst unusable, at best inaccurate or unreliable.

Sareen Software will only issue a password for purchasers of the OfficeTalk Data Access Toolkit if the following criteria are met:

The document Criteria.doc included in the download has been signed by the IT Director or Manager responsible for the OfficeTalk Workgroup, the senior Line Manager responsible for the OfficeTalk Workgroup, the Network Supervisor, the OfficeTalk Supervisor and any Engineer responsible for any addition to or modification of the the data in your OfficeTalk data structure. (We realise that in many circumstances an individual may fulfil more than one of the above functions.)

In the document the organisation undertakes that any piece of software that uses the DDFs to add data to, delete data from or modify data in the OfficeTalk data structure, will be thoroughly tested on a test OfficeTalk data structure before it is used on any live OfficeTalk data structure.

The full version of the OfficeTalk Data Access Toolkit is priced at ú500 ($750) and is available free of charge to organisations that have purchased an OfficeTalk workgroup of at least 50 users.

Download the OfficeTalk Data Access Toolkit V1.0 (approx. 1,835 Kb - Published Date 8/10/96)
OfficeTalk Data Access Toolkit Documentation (approx. 56 Kb - Also included in above Download)

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