Week in Review: December 24, 2022

Just Published

^{This section includes videos, articles, and interesting discussions from the past 7 days.}

Articles

• Access Forever

  • No ODBC Issue for Christmas 2022, by Philipp Stiefel
  • Which Access versions do developers use?, by Karl Donaubauer

• Daniel Pineault (DEVelopers HUT)

  • Access – VBA – Find Attachment and MultiValued Fields
  • A New Microsoft Access Bug Tracking Website

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • Access/Windows/Office365 Version Check Add-In UPDATED
  • Access/Office 365/Windows Version Check UPDATED
  • Fixing the Navigation Bar Half Height problem UPDATED
  • List Tables with Complex Fields
  • Speed Test 13: WHERE OR vs WHERE IN

• Crystal Long (Ms Access Gurus | Access Access Newsletter)

  • Draw the December (Winter in the North) Solstice on Access Reports
  • Draw a Snowman on Access Reports

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • Calculating Gift Counts for "The Twelve Days of Christmas": Recursion Edition
  • Calculating Gift Counts for "The Twelve Days of Christmas": Looping Edition
  • Reader Challenge: Write a Formula to Calculate Gift Totals in "The Twelve Days of Christmas"
  • Dt() Function v3: Refactoring with Automated Tests
  • Dt() Function v2: Handling Time-Only Date Values

Videos‌

• Access User Group Recordings (YouTube channel)

  • Access and SQL Server Academy - Part Two (1:00:52): by Juan Soto

• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

  • Followups Part 1 (17:56): Create a Customer Followup Database in Microsoft Access: Part 1
  • Followups Part 2 (15:11): Create a Customer Followup Database in Microsoft Access: Part 2
  • Value from a Subform (17:32): How to Get a Value from a Subform in Microsoft Access
  • AccessForever.org (1:08): Access Forever: New Microsoft Access-related Website by 4 MVPs
  • Split Forms (18:12): Microsoft Access Split Forms and Why I Don't Like Them

New to Me

^{This section includes content I discovered this week that has been around for awhile.}

Nothing new this week.

Upcoming Access User Group Events

^{NOTE: Only English-language user group meetings with scheduled guest speakers or topics are listed.  For a complete list of upcoming events, visit the Access User Group event calendar.}

• December 27, 2022: Maria Barnes - VBA Signing in Microsoft Access (JUST ADDED)
• January 4, 2023: Karl Donaubauer - A baker's dozen of tips, tricks and tools in 60 minutes
• January 5, 2023: Juanjo Luna - Using REST/API calls with Access (Spanish to English translation will be provided)
• January 31, 2023: Colin Riddington -  Translate & Speak Using Access
• February 1, 2023: Thomas Möller - Better Access Charts
• February 2, 2023: Linda Ewen - (topic to be announced)
• March 1, 2023: Maria Barnes - Optimizing Queries in SQL Server
• April 5, 2023: Duane Hookom - (topic details to follow)
• April 20-21, 2023: Access DevCon Vienna (tentative dates) (JUST ADDED)
• May 3, 2023: Peter Bryant - Automating DSN-less Communications to SQL Server
• June 7, 2023: Thomas Pfoch - Maps for Microsoft Access
• October 4, 2023: Juan Soto - (topic details to follow)
• December 6, 2023: Mike Wolfe - (topic to be confirmed)

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Access Roadmap

There were NO CHANGES to the roadmap between last week (2022-12-17) and this week (2022-12-24).  The development priorities were last updated on October 12, 2022.

Listed below is a snapshot of the official Access Roadmap (NOTE: as of publication, this link leads to an unfiltered view of the entire Microsoft 365 roadmap because as of the week of December 10, 2022, there are no Access items shown on the roadmap).

"In Development", "Rolling Out", and "Launched" are Microsoft terms that I pulled straight from the public roadmap.

"Development Priorities" do not appear on the Access Roadmap.  Instead, they get updated from time to time in official Access blog posts.  I'll include a link to the official Access blog post that lists the current development priorities as they get updated.

Development Priorities

The items listed below reflect Microsoft's order of priority and were published in the following article, Our Road Ahead - Microsoft Access Engineering Priorities Oct 2022.

New priorities added since the previous set of priorities are shown in bold below.  Dropped priorities are struck through.

1. Continued Focus on Monthly Issue Fixes (Monthly Issue Fix Blog)
2. Inconsistent Database Error Fix
3. New Macro Signing Support
4. New (Modern) Web Browser Control (to support Chromium Edge)
5. Dataverse Connector Data Type Support for Floating Point
6. Dataverse Connector Data Type Support for Rich Text
7. Dataverse Connector support to export to a specific Dataverse solution or publisher
8. Enabling Large Address Aware (LAA) for 32-Bit Access
9. SQL Monaco Editor
10. New Microsoft Graph Data Connector

In Development

None.

Rolling Out

None.

Launched

None.