Week in Review: November 11, 2023

Just Published

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

Articles

• Access Forever

  • Microsoft's Plans for Access in the Next 6 Months, by Karl Donaubauer

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

  • Streamlining Event Procedures 3DTextWizard

• Noah (Dykoski?) (Arkware)

  • Integrating Microsoft Access and Outlook for Streamlined Communication and Data Management

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • Highlight Required Fields
  • Highlight Current Control
  • 32 to 64-bit Conversion
  • UK Postal Address Lookup (updated)
  • Highlight Current Record in Continuous Form
  • Prevent Opening Objects From the Navigation Pane

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • "How Hard Can It Be?" Five of the Most Dangerous Words for Access Developers
  • Upcoming Presentation: Streamline Your Import/Export Spec Workflow with VBA Classes
  • Documenting the Import-Export Specification System Tables
  • Career Advice from Patrick McKenzie
  • Everything in Life is a Tradeoff

Videos‌

• Access User Group Recordings (YouTube channel)

  • Event Driven Programming -- Part II (01:09:36): with John Colby

• Sean MacKenzie (YouTube channel)

  • Actions (36:01): ADI Part 4: How to Build Actions in Microsoft Access

• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

  • Combo Box Row Limit: Part 1 (15:19): Overcoming the Combo Box Row Limit in Microsoft Access. See All Records, Shorten Loading Delays
  • Combo Box Row Limit: Part 2 (15:30): Overcoming the Combo Box Row Limit in Microsoft Access. Part 2
  • Select Text On Click (17:25): How to Select All Text in a Text Box When You Click on it in Microsoft Access
  • Buttons on Reports: Part 1 (15:12): Adding Clickable Buttons to Reports to Edit Records in Microsoft Access
  • Buttons on Reports: Part 2 (14:17): Adding Clickable Buttons to Reports to Edit Records in Microsoft Access, Part 2

• Daniel Pineault (YouTube channel)

  • Interact With a Webpage (20:03): Microsoft Access - Modern Web Browser Control
  • The Dangers Of Microsoft 365 (04:14)
  • Text Box Control Character Counter (24:15)
  • Microsoft Access - Status Update 20231107 (26:28)

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

  • How Subforms Communicate (07:40): Selecting Data in a Subform to Change Data in Another Subform

• Edcelle John Gulfan (YouTube channel)

  • MySQL and Microsoft Access (08:21): MySQL and Microsoft Access Common Issues

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.}

• 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

DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES UPDATED!!!

There were NO CHANGES to the roadmap between the last Week in Review (2023-11-04) and this one (2023-11-11).

The development priorities were last updated at the German-language AEK conference on October 14, 2023.

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 or Access engineering team presentations.  I'll include a link to the source of 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, Microsoft's Plans for Access in the Next 6 Months.

The items are listed in priority order according to Principal Engineering Manager Dale Rector.  The "Expected Benefit" of each feature is shown in italics after the description of the feature itself.

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) Improved product quality and reliability
2. Access becomes Large Address Aware: Removal of key customer error issue
3. Dataverse export improvements: Make it easier and faster for admins to migrate their data to Dataverse
4. Large monitor support for forms: Improved support of Access on the latest hardware
5. Modern Chart Improvements: Expanded support for the most popular chart types and options
6. SQL Editor Improvements: Significantly improved SQL query editing experience
7. Inconsistent Database Error Fix

Special thanks to Karl Donaubauer for posting the updated priorities at AccessForever.org.

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