Week in Review: September 21, 2024

Just Published

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

Articles

• Access Forever

  • AEK 26 – World Premieres and Rescues, by Karl Donaubauer

• The UKAUG Blog

  • UKAUG Relaunch

• Jonathan Halder (Access JumpStart 2.0)

  • Totally Geeking Out on VBA
  • VBA Loops cheat sheet
  • When to use Macros vs VBA in Microsoft Access
  • How many ways are there to NOT do something?
  • Transparent = True or Visible = False?

• Daniel Pineault (DEVelopers HUT)

  • Randomly Delete/Clear Rows of Data Within a Column(s) in Excel
  • You need to do something extra before we can sign you in.

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • Monaco SQL Editor Temporarily Disabled
  • NEW - Monaco SQL Editor
  • AEU31: Advanced Interactive Gantt Charts

• Crystal Long (Ms Access Gurus | Access Access Newsletter)

  • Clipboard

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • Throwback Thursday: September 19, 2024
  • ActiveX Disabled by Default in Office LTSC 2024

Videos‌

• Access User Group Recordings (YouTube channel)

  • Working with the Microsoft Graph API from VBA (01:09:50) with Maria Barnes
  • Advanced Techniques with Interactive Gantt Charts (01:04:21) with Aleksander Wojtasz
  • When Should You Use SQL Server with Microsoft Access? (50:23) with Juan Soto

• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

  • Students & Grades (19:12): Student Grades in Microsoft Access: Proper Data Entry, Spreadsheet-Like View (Crosstab Query)
  • QAT For One DB (13:03): Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar for a Single Database in Microsoft Access
  • Passing a Form: Part 1 (18:24): Passing a Form as an Object Variable to a Global Subroutine in Microsoft Access VBA
  • Passing a Form: Part 2 (14:27): Passing a Form as an Object Variable to a Global Subroutine in Microsoft Access VBA, Part 2
  • Sum of Last Orders (21:20): Generate Sum of Last Orders by Customer in Microsoft Access

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.}

• September 24, 2024: Maria Barnes - Modern Chart Improvements
• October 02, 2024: Alessandro Grimaldi - Drag and Drop: behind the scenes
• October 3, 2024: Ron McCarry - Using cached ODBC connection in Access with single sign-on
• October 15, 2024; Juan Soto? - Access Beginner's Inaugural Meeting (JUST ADDED) - (NOTE: Meeting is scheduled to start at 6 PM, but no time zone is specified; I assume it is US Central Time as Juan is based in Chicago)
• October 29, 2024: Maria Barnes - Integrate Monaco framework to improve SQL editor capabilities
• November 06, 2024: Chris Arnold - Tips and Tricks for Continuous Forms An Image / Photo Cataloguer for Access (NEW TOPIC)
• November 07, 2024: Greg Regan - Modern Access Interfaces
• November 20 (9:30 am - 4:00 pm): In-person UK AUG Autumn 2024 Conference, Oxford University (Steve Girling, Anders Ebro, Mike Wolfe, Peter Bryant)
• November 26, 2024: George Young- Using Web APIs in Access
• December 04, 2024: Adrian Bell - topic to be confirmed
• December 05, 2024: Crystal Long and Geoff Griffith- Creating Add-ins that run in Access and Office
• January 8, 2025: Philipp Stiefel - topic to be confirmed
• February 05, 2025: John Mallinson - Using VBE_Extras Add-In with Access
• May 15, 2025 @ 9:30 am - 4:30 pm: In-person UKAUG Spring Conference 2025, Imperial College London (speakers TBA)

Access Roadmap

There were no changes made to the roadmap between the last Week in Review (2024-09-14) and this one (2024-09-21).

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)