Poking troubles

[Poltzky]

Hi!

Can anyone help me regarding the poking of password into peachtree 7? I am using visual basic 6 to poke and access data from peachtree but the company password prevents me in doing so.

When I send a "PASSWORD" linkitem together with the actual password, DDE responds with "OK". But when I try to request or poke data it responds with the very frustrating "You are not allowed access to that data". After failing a number of times, I ran the XL97DDE.xls that came along with the installation but still got the same message. Is there something wrong with this feature? I have no problem if password is disabled.

Please help!!! Thanks.

[dringstrom]

Are you sending both a User ID and password over at the same time, e.g. USERID\PASSWORD? These are case sensitive. I always establish a user ID of DDE and password of DDE, which only has rights to use DDE, so that I can just send over DDE\DDE. If someone tries to log into Peachtree with the DDE\DDE combination, all functionality within the program is disabled.

You can find additional info on using DDE with Peachtree on my web site at www.accountingadvisors.com/dde.

Good luck!