Week in Review: April 8, 2023

Just Published

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

Articles

Videos‌

Colin Riddington [Isladogs] (YouTube channel)
- Relationships Window Bug (2:18): Update on the Relationships Windows Bug - Part 2
- Datasheet Totals Row Bug (2:27)
Richard Rost (YouTube channel)
- Subdatasheets (11:25): What, How, & Why (I Don't Let End-Users Play With Them)
- Denormalize For Performance (20:56): One Way to Speed Up your Microsoft Access Database
- Disable AutoSave Subform (10:53): How to Disable Automatic Record Saving in a Subform
- Replication ID Foreign Key (10:07): Replication ID as a Foreign Key in Microsoft Access
Pharos Technology [Dr. Richard Hanson] (YouTube MS Access playlist)
- Ranking Data Sets by Percentiles in Microsoft Access (Short)
- Customize the Access Toolbar (7:19): Boost Your Productivity with Customized Quick Access Toolbar in MS Access
- Median Magic: How to Locate the Middle of a Data Set in Microsoft Access (Short)
- Database Design (5:10): A Five-Step Database Design Guide for Beginners

New to Me

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

Power Tip: Improve the security of database connections, by Ben Clothier
Bypassing Autoexec, by Dev Ashish

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.}

April 20, 2023: Tom van Stiphout - Northwind 2.0 Is Here!
April 25, 2023: Maria Barnes - What's New with Access?
April 27-28, 2023: Access DevCon Vienna
May 3, 2023: Peter Bryant - Automating DSN-less Communications to SQL Server
June 7, 2023: Thomas Pfoch - Maps for Microsoft Access
July 5, 2023: Aleksander Wojtasz - Interactive Gantt Chart Scheduler in Access
August 2, 2023: Thomas Möller - (topic details to follow)
September 6, 2023: Juanjo Luna - Blazor: making a webApp
October 4, 2023: Juan Soto - The Future of Access
November 1, 2023: John Heaser - Extending Access with SQL Server – including Geography data
December 6, 2023: Mike Wolfe - (topic to be confirmed)

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Access Roadmap

There were NO CHANGES to the roadmap between the last Week in Review (2023-04-01) and this one (2023-04-08).

The development priorities were last updated on October 12, 2022.

Listed below is a snapshot of the official Access 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.

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

In Development

APR 2023: Modern Web Browser Control
MAR 2023: New Modern Web Browser Form Control

Rolling Out

None.

Launched

None.