[AccessD] New Approach

jack drawbridge jackandpat.d at gmail.com
Tue Mar 5 19:30:12 CST 2013


Doug,
I think it would be helpful if you would post your list. It seems to be a
topic of some interest, and we are all wondering where Access is heading
(whether we are saying it out loud or not).

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Doug Murphy <dw-murphy at cox.net> wrote:

> There is a lot on this on the web. Rogers Access blog has quite a bit. MS
> has volumes. Look at
>
> http://rogersaccessblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/access-2010-web-databases-how-c
> an-i-put.html for a start. This has to do with web databases but the
> process
> is similar. I played with using SP lists on Office365 as a backend for a
> client. In Access 2010 the design tools were not intuitive for an Access
> user. As with ribbons the function is there, you just have to find it.
>
> I have an extensive list of web sites with this stuff if anyone is
> interested. I decided a cheap hosting account with SQL server met our needs
> much better.
>
> Doug
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 4:37 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] New Approach
>
> I know absolutely nothing about SharePoint. So perhaps it's not surprising
> that your comments leave me somewhat mystified. Let's start with a simple
> case, an Access app in classic style that consists of an FE and a BE. In
> terms of complexity, it's trivial, about 25 tables and about twice that
> many
> forms and queries. So how does this app get into SharePoint? Do we just
> copy
> the BE into SP? And then what about the FE? Do I have to rebuild the FE in
> SP? That's the part I don't understand.
>
> The client in question has about 100+ users and also has a license for SP.
> The users are in several offices and apparently they all hit a central
> server that runs SP. From the little I have seen, their primary focus is on
> document storage. I don't understand how database apps fit into this
> picture.
>
> Would you please enlighten me? I wrote an Access app for them, but if there
> is some way to get this app into SP then their lives would be a lot
> simpler,
> and I guess so would mine. So any wisdom you would care to share about how
> this is done would be most welcome. I've heard of SP lists, and even seen
> that on the Access ribbon, but I have no idea what it means.
>
> Hoping that you can clear up some of the fog.
>
> Arthur
>
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