Week in Review: October 21, 2023

Just Published

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

Articles

• Official Access Blog

  • Access Releases 8 Issue Fixes in Version 2309 (Released September 28th, 2023), by Linda Lu Cannon

• a.p.r. pillai (Learn MS-Access Tips and Tricks)

  • Streamlining Form VBA Custom Report Wizard - 16

• Mathieu Guindon (Rubberduck VBA)

  • Progress on the RD3 Editor Shell

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • Extend Access across Multiple Monitors
  • Synchronise Subform Scrolling (updated)
  • Accurately Move Forms & Controls (updated)

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • Advanced Report Builder Form
  • Reader Question: Is it worth running an Access front-end from a RAM disk?
  • Advanced Report Builder
  • Access 101: Local vs. Linked Tables
  • Productized Services: Finding the Sweet Spot Between Products and Services

Videos‌

• Access User Group Recordings (YouTube channel)

  • Updateable Bound Forms with Denormalized Data (01:30:11): with Pat Hartman (Re-released)

• George Hepworth (YouTube channel)

  • Building the Lander Trail Foundation Searchable Catalog, Part 2 (17:25): Filtering and Searching
  • Building the Lander Trail Foundation Searchable Catalog, Part 3 (17:06): Display Many-to-Many Relationships
  • Building the Lander Trail Foundation Searchable Catalog, Part 4 (06:09): Leverage SQL Server Views
  • Building the Lander Trail Foundation Searchable Catalog, Part 5 (10:00): Roles for List and Detail Views
  • Building the Lander Trail Foundation Searchable Catalog, Part 6 (11:27): Patch Records in the source table
  • Building the Lander Trail Foundation Searchable Catalog, Part 7 (11:21): Context and App Variables

• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

  • OpenAI (17:53): Unlocking the Potential of ChatGPT in Microsoft Access via OpenAI's API - Part 1 of 2
  • Decision Tree Part 3: Editor Form (21:24)
  • Decision Tree Part 4: Editor Navigation (25:07)
  • Decision Tree Part 5: Viewer Form (24:14)
  • Decision Tree Part 6: Drag-and-Drop Images (28:11)

• Pharos Technology [Dr. Richard Hanson] (YouTube channel)

  • Format() Your Forms with VBA (06:55): Format Data Like a Pro with the Format Function
  • Read 20K File Names in Seconds (08:05): Using VBA to Optimize Data Input in Microsoft Access

Select Open Source Projects: New Releases

• msaccess-vcs-addin: v4.0.25-beta (dev branch)

New to Me

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

• IT Projects can fail when technical RFP’s and business cases aren’t aligned

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.}

• October 31, 2023: Crystal Long - Two free tools: List Objects from your Access Databases and Code Documenter
• November 1, 2023: John Heaser - Extending Access with SQL Server – including Geography data
• November 2, 2023: John Colby - Event Driven Programming: Part II (Part I recording)
• November 16, 2023: Alexander Denz - ChatGPT in Access
• November 22-23, 2023: (IN-PERSON!) UK Access User Group Conference (at the offices of Gordon Associates in Cheltenham)
• December 6, 2023: Mike Wolfe - Streamline Your Import/Export Spec Workflow with VBA Classes
• January 3, 2024: Ramachandran (A.P.R.) Pillai - Streamlining the Form Module Code in the standalone Class Module
• February 7, 2024: Carlos Quintero - Features of MZ-Tools to make you more productive with VBA
• March 6, 2024: Thomas Möller - Better Access Charts in the new Edge Browser Control
• April 3, 2024: Dale Fye - Working with Command Bars and the Access Shortcut Tool
• May 1, 2024: Colin Riddington - View & Edit Import/Export (IMEX) Data Task Specifications

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Access Roadmap

There were NO CHANGES to the roadmap between the last Week in Review (2023-10-14) and this one (2023-10-21).

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.

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

• NOV 2023: Making 32-bit Access Large Address Aware (LAA)

Rolling Out

None.

Launched

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