[AccessD] MS Access Web Apps Javascript(?) Add-Ins - Was:Re[2]: Access and source control

[Salakhetdinov Shamil]

 Hi Jim --

But for Office 2016 Office Add-Ins technology has got more new features aimed at developers I suppose.
I have just posted a link on my reply to Gustav that with Office Add-ins (VS 2015 Update1) you can do "pretty much anything" -  http://tinyurl.com/h4a8yuf  . 

Here is a note which doesn't mention MS Access Web Apps:

"... at the recent Build 2015 conference, Microsoft revealed that it's making the Office suite into a platform, allowing developers to integrate their apps and services directly into Office 2016. In other words, you won't have to leave Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook to use third-party apps that will include the likes of SAP, Salesforce, Uber and DocuSign.
For example, the Uber add-on will allow Outlook users to set a reminder to call a car in order to get them to their next appointment, and the SAP add-on will let Excel users connect to the on-premise SAP server and import data directly into a spreadsheet." ( http://tinyurl.com/hzoxlfm ) but AFAIU you can develop similar content- and task- Office Add-Ins to be used from within MS Access Web apps.

Thank you.

-- Shamil

>Monday, January 25, 2016 8:51 AM -05:00 from "Jim Dettman" <jimdettman at verizon.net>:
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> I might be living in a cave<g>, but Office Add-Ins have been around for a
>while already and at least in the Access world, no one has done anything
>with them (I haven't seen them anywhere else either).
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> Access web apps landed with a tremendous thud.
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> Consider that we are now almost four years since introduction, and I have
>not seen a single app outside of the HR app written by Julian on the App
>store, and none anywhere else.  On Experts-Exchange, I think we've answered
>a couple dozen questions at most on web apps. In the MVP community, I
>believe there are only two MVP's that have done a web app besides Julian and
>they more or less gave up on them.
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> I'd rather not be so overly negative on them, but they are so limited, you
>just cannot do anything meaningful with them expect in a very limited scope.
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>  Check out this page:
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>https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj250134.aspx
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> Which just about fully describes what you have available to you. For a
>developer, there's not a lot there to work with.  They have added some newer
>features in 2016, such as e-mailing (only within your own domain though),
>downloading of data into Excel, and some linking to Power BI, but still your
>limited fundamentally by what you can do in the web app.
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> Microsoft is simply aiming for the power users and nothing else.
>
>Jim.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
>Salakhetdinov Shamil
>Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2016 02:18 PM
>To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>Subject: Re: [AccessD] MS Access Web Apps Javascript(?) Add-Ins - Was:Re[2]:
>Access and source control
>
> Hi Jim --
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>They are great for throwing together a basic app that does CRUD operations
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>Yes, that was my impression too.
>But recently released Office Add-Ins together with Office UI Fabric and
>other related technologies seems to be the "game changers" as they are
>HTML/CSS/JavaScript -based/-driven and only "the skies are limits" in this
>case...
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>Thank you
>
>-- Shamil
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