[Zope] updating excel as an odbc datasource

[David Carter-Tod]

On Thursday 15 November 2001 06:22 pm, Meilicke, Scott allegedly wrote:
 > I'm using excel as an odbc datasource, and my customer needs to be able to
 > update the excel spreadsheet.  However, when zope has connected to the
 > database connector, I can not open the file read/write, nor can I replace
 > the file with another.  Read-only is checked on my odbc driver.
 >
 > Any thoughts on how to get around this?

I suspect the problem is that you need to set read-write security 
permissions on the excel file (in the file system).  MS Access can have 
this problem too.

David
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