Accessing AutoPlay from Network

[Marina]

Hi Everybody,

We are creating a project where 170 people will watch a flash presentation that occasionally loads .flv video. This will be done from a local intranet and delivered through autoplay, and in the end, they will submit their name and their id number which will be captured with Excel spread sheet. Is that feasible? Could many people simultaneously access that application?

[Ted Sullivan]

Hi Marina,

You shouldn't have any problems with multiple people running your application over a network share. Many people reading the same information isn't problematic.

The only issue would be the way you write information in that environment. As in any multi-user environment, there is the concern that more than one person will want to write to the same file at the same time. You'd need to work out some sort of queing system so that conflicts do not occur. That shouldn't really be much of a problem though, as it sounds like you've got some sort web app or backend that is writing to that excel file.