[AccessD] Svar: What to do? (was: Just Another Old Boys Club)

I haven't had a chance to play with it yet, but apparently if you used
linked tables in an Access front end to Sharepoint lists (tables), you
can run them disconnected, then when you get hooked back up to the
Sharepoint server, the data is synced back to the Sharepoint list.  I
could see this being pretty useful when you have more than one person
out in the field or just want a way to automatically backup your data,
and if the Surface tablet works out you aren't lugging around a laptop
anymore but have the same capability.

Then there's the ability to show that data on a Sharepoint site on the
web.  Assign customer logins to that site, and allow them to see their
data, export it to Excel, etc...  Lots of possibilities here.

Pretty cool stuff, IMO.

Rusty


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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 10:20 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Svar: What to do? (was: Just Another Old Boys
Club)

I have one client that would die for this technology. He's been a client
on and off for about 5 years. He's what is called a Safety Assessment
Engineer, which means that he visits factories and looks at the machines
(drills, presses, robots, etc.) and takes measurements to ensure their
compliance with provincial standards. Currently he records these
measurements by lugging his laptop from workstation to workstation. Then
when he gets back to the home/office, he prints reports to PDF format
(these IMO are very slick; they're not Access reports but Word documents
into which large amounts of data and photos of the workstations are
plonked).

I won't suggest that he buy a Surface until it's been demonstrated that
an Access app will run on such a baby, but he would die for that
ability. And he might just give me a justification to purchase one for
myself, too.

A.

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi Gustav:
>
> Maybe at your end of the country the businesses are a little more 
> progressive but here these guys are ultra conservative. Most have not 
> even moved off XP (sad), some that have are using Win7 but only in 
> specific places and even if Win8 was another XP clone it would take at

> least five years for management to take the package seriously. Some 
> managers have moved to an Apple product; like owning BMW. 
> Unfortunately, Apple stations are priced out of the market and there 
> still are very few people who can fix them.
>
> The one thing that Win8 has going for it is that its new price-point 
> looks very good...it is about time, as Linux is poised to scoop the 
> desktop market...but what sort of hardware will be the realist
minimum?
>
> Jim
>
>
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