February 2006 - Posts
Sorry for the extra time since the last post, I got run over with some other work when I got back and am just getting through that. Last time, we talked about modifying the issues tracking app . This time, we'll look at starting from scratch, but again
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I'll be out of town over the next week with intermittent net connections, so there will be no new posts in the next week. I’ll have new posts when I get back, and will try to respond to comments between now and then. Thanks, Erik
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Last time, we looked at the Issues tracking application that will ship with Access 12 and provide a simple place for users to get started with Access. This time, we'll look at some of the new tools available to modify that application. Each of these toolsets
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The Issues tracking application is a great example of the set of tracking apps mentioned last time. It is quite simple - only 2 primary tables (for Issues and Contacts), a few forms, and several reports. One of the goals for the tracking apps was to make
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Access 12 and Windows SharePoint Services v.3 will enable out of the box “tracking applications” that can span the client and server or can run standalone on the client. A “tracking app” is a small data application that adds database functionality to
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The first thing Access 12 users will see is a completely new getting started screen. Before Access 12, users are confronted with database concepts as soon as they boot the application - they need to understand object types immediately, and data types
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Its been a long, long time since my last post, and I'm truly sorry to have fallen off the earth like I did. I'm re-launching the Access blog today, with a new look and a new commitment to keep the flow up. I'm finally at a point where I can dedicate most
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