Week in Review: August 10, 2024

Just Published

^{This section includes videos, articles, and (occasionally) open-source project updates from the past 7 days.}

Articles

• Access Forever

  • The Salesforce Connector is Broken, by Karl Donaubauer
  • Access Crashes When Filtering Forms in Version 2407, by George Hepworth

• Jonathan Halder (Access JumpStart 2.0)

  • Can you make a living with Microsoft Access?
  • Simple Active / Inactive Access Combo Box Dropdown List
  • Access VBA isn’t always the quickest thing out there…
  • Troubleshooting an ODBC error in Access
  • We aren’t good project time estimators

• Daniel Pineault (DEVelopers HUT)

  • Where’s Microsoft Access On All The MS365 Pages?
  • Legacy Browser Vs Modern Web Browser Control, Which to Use?
  • Access Suffering from Alzheimer’s?

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • Save As Text / Load From Text
  • Set the Application Icon Using Code
  • AEU31: Advanced Interactive Gantt Charts

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • Software Pricing Battle Royale
  • Throwback Thursday: August 8, 2024

Videos‌

• Access User Group Recordings (YouTube channel)

  • DBeaver -- A Better, free cross-platform database tool (01:02:30): with Kevin Bell

• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

  • Enter Instead of Tab (15:06): How to Use the Enter Key Instead of the Tab Key to Move to the Next Record in Microsoft Access
  • New Outlook Not Ready (01:47): New Microsoft Outlook Not Ready - Important for Microsoft Access Users to Know
  • Accidental Clicks (19:55): Preventing Accidental Clicks and Double-Clicks in Your Microsoft Access Forms
  • Big Button Form, Part 4 (18:06): Dynamic Forms with Big Buttons for Data Entry in Microsoft Access, Part 4
  • Big Button Form, Part 5 (16:55): Dynamic Forms with Big Buttons for Data Entry in Microsoft Access, Part 5
  • Big Button Form, Part 6 (18:14): Dynamic Forms with Big Buttons for Data Entry in Microsoft Access, Part 6

New to Me

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

• How I Use "AI", by Nicholas Carlini

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.}

• August 27, 2024: Maria Barnes - Working with Microsoft Graph API from VBA
• September 04, 2024: Aleksander Wojtasz - Follow-up session on Interactive Gantt charts
• September 05, 2024: Adrian Bell - Access Addins
• October 02, 2024: Alessandro Grimaldi - Animation with Style in Access
• October 3, 2024: Ron McCarry - Using cached ODBC connection in Access with single sign-on
• November 06, 2024: Chris Arnold - Tips and Tricks for Continuous Forms
• November 07, 2024: Greg Regan - Modern Access Interfaces
• November 26, 2024: George Young- Using Web APIs in Access
• December 04, 2024: Adrian Bell - topic to be confirmed
• January 8, 2025: Philipp Stiefel - topic to be confirmed
• February 05, 2025: John Mallinson - Using VBE_Extras Add-In with Access

Access Roadmap

There were no changes made to the roadmap between the last Week in Review (2024-08-03) and this one (2024-08-10).

The roadmap was last updated the week of May 11, 2024.  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

• AUG 2024: Modern Chart Improvements
• SEP 2024: Integrate Monaco framework to improve SQL editor capabilities

Rolling Out

None.

Launched

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