Chapter 19

Developing Applications with Access

WHAT’S IN THIS CHAPTER?

  • Learning about Access Services 2013’s new approach to web applications
  • Automating business logic with macros
  • Building a fully functional Access Services 2013 web application
  • Delivering familiar Access reporting capabilities on top of new web application interfaces

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Microsoft Access is the premier integrated desktop developer tool, currently in its tenth release as Microsoft Access 2013. Access 2013 is ready to speed business users through complex data management and reporting tasks with a number of packaged database templates and a wide array of organizational and data access capabilities. Databases and data access concepts are certainly not new concepts, especially considering that this chapter immediately follows the PerformancePoint chapter, at the end of a book focused on Microsoft SharePoint 2013. Nevertheless, Microsoft Access 2013 brings a lot of problem-solving potential to the intermediate and advanced business user. This potential is worth understanding to help the SharePoint architect and developer know when to use an out-of-the-box approach such as the use of Microsoft Access instead of a customization or extension of SharePoint. ...

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