Week in Review: February 24, 2024

Just Published

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

Articles

• Access Forever

  • "SQL Server" ODBC Driver Slow in Monthly Channel (Fixed), by Karl Donaubauer

• Jonathan Halder (Access JumpStart 2.0)

  • Customizing Access: Open without Access window displayed
  • Customizing Access: Replace the splash screen
  • Access JumpStart – The Documentation
  • Access Programming – What I do and Why (Access JumpStart)
  • TDD – 052 – Woohoo, refactoring success!
  • TDD – 051 – Now to refactor the test…
  • TDD – 050 – Function refactor successful
  • TDD – 049 – Still refactoring the big change I wanted
  • TDD – 048 – Refactoring too much (Don’t try this at home)
  • TDD – 047 – Refactoring to make field changes simpler
  • TDD – 046 – Using ParamArray in VBA subs

• Daniel Pineault (DEVelopers HUT)

  • Converting Form Code To A Reusable Class Module
  • Only Save Record Via Save Button

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • Freeze Columns in Continuous Forms - Part 3
  • Reset the Property Sheet (updated)
  • Edit Data in Hidden Duplicates Forms - Part 2

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • Use Caching to Speed Up Editable Forms with Hidden Duplicate Values
  • Use Custom Functions to Hide Multi-Level Group Headers on Editable Continuous Forms
  • Use DCount() to Make Editable Continuous Forms with Hidden Duplicate Values
  • Hiding Duplicate Values in Continuous Forms via Left Joins
  • Hiding Duplicate Values in Continuous Forms via Subqueries

Videos‌

• Access User Group Recordings (YouTube channel)

  • 2024 Plans for Access (51:04): with Maria Barnes
  • Interview with Book Author Alessandro Grimaldi: Access on Steroids (57:46)

• George Hepworth (YouTube channel)

  • PowerApps Gallery (12:20): Let users know how many records are in the fully populated gallery without scrolling to the end.

• Sean MacKenzie (YouTube channel)

  • Multiple Choice (27:27): ADI Part 8: Add Multiple Choice Prompts with a List Dialog

• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

  • VBA Bookmarks (10:59): How to Use Bookmarks to Quickly Jump Between Locations in the Microsoft Access VBA Editor
  • VBA Editor Colors (13:50): How to Change the Display Colors of the VBA Editor in Microsoft Access
  • Numbered Images (12:13): How to Display Numbered Images in a Database Based on a Field Value in Microsoft Access
  • Images Subfolder (16:33): How to Store Images in a Database Subfolder to Prevent Broken Links in Microsoft Access
  • Quick Queries #12 (17:05): Microsoft Access Quick Queries #12. VBA Editor Text Size. Separate Subforms. Multiple Tables. More!

• Daniel Pineault (YouTube channel)

  • Form SubClassing 101 (35:47)
  • Converting Form Code To A Reusable Class Module (30:34)
  • Only Save Form Changes With A Save Button (17:01)

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

  • Data Warehousing: An Introduction (08:07): The Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Revolution

• Nifty Access [Tony Hine, aka Uncle Gizmo] (YouTube channel)

  • Nifty Filter (02:31): The Built In MS Access Filter

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.}

• February 27, 2024: Crystal Long - Tab Control Tricks AND using Unicode to visualize your data better (JUST ADDED)
• March 6, 2024: Thomas Möller - Better Access Charts in the new Edge Browser Control
• March 7, 2024: Linda Ewen - Sharing Data with Users Outside Your Local Network
• March 15, 2024: Access Day - in-person Access conference in Seattle, WA area
• March 26, 2024: Steve Schapel - Unraveling Constraints – A Case Study
• April 3, 2024: Dale Fye - Working with Command Bars and the Access Shortcut Tool
• April 9, 2024: UK Access User Group - April 2024 Conference - in-person Access conference at Imperial College, London
• April 18-19, 2024: Access DevCon Vienna - (Online in Microsoft Teams) Agenda available here (JUST UPDATED)
• 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 (2024-02-17) and this one (2024-02-24).

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