F. Scott Barker’s Microsoft Access 2002 Power Programming

Chapter 12. Working with Data Access Pages

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Why Data Access Pages? 356

• Saving Time with the Data Access Page Wizards 364

• Creating and Enhancing Simple Data Access Pages 369

• Grouping Data Access Pages: Reports for the Web 379

• Finding Additional Resources 384

Probably one of the most new exciting and powerful features in Access 2000—and one of the most confusing—were Data Access Pages (DAPs). Data Access Pages are Microsoft’s closest attempt yet at melding Access with the Web. DAPs are HTML documents that you create through Access by using Jet or SQL Server for the data source.

Note

You will see the terms Data Access Page, DAP, data page, and page used for the same item throughout this chapter.

DAPs can be used

• From within Access, mixed with ...