Week in Review: October 12, 2024

Just Published

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

Articles

• Jonathan Halder (Access JumpStart 2.0)

  • Copying Access Tables / Data using VBA Real World Case – Part 3
  • Some things to log in an Access Application
  • Agile Access Programming
  • Complex Queries – Is there a way to simplify?

• Daniel Pineault (DEVelopers HUT)

  • How-To Copy a Table’s Structure Only Without The Data
  • Working With Dates and Times

• Colin Riddington (Isladogs on Access)

  • Disable Shortcut Menus in Access Reports
  • A Trip Down Memory Lane (UPDATED)

• Mike Wolfe (NoLongerSet)

  • Throwback Thursday: October 10, 2024

Videos‌

• Access User Group Recordings (YouTube channel)

  • Converting ADP Projects to ACCDB (22:28): with Juan Soto
  • Drag and Drop: Behind the Scenes (57:33): with Alessandro Grimaldi
  • Using cached ODBC connection in Access with single sign-on (55:49): with Ron McCarry

• Richard Rost (YouTube channel)

  • Bill To Ship To, Part 1 (17:16): Copy Bill To Address to Ship To Address in an Order in Microsoft Access
  • Bill To Ship To, Part 2 (15:50): Copy Bill To Address to Ship To Address in an Order in Microsoft Access, Part 2
  • Bill To Ship To, Part 3 (16:46): Copy Bill To Address to Ship To Address in an Order in Microsoft Access, Part 3
  • Shift Click (15:36): How to Perform a Different Action on Button Click with Shift Key Pressed in Microsoft Access
  • Trap Form Errors (16:44): How to Trap Form Errors to Give More User-Friendly Notifications 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.}

• October 15, 2024; Juan Soto? - Access Beginner's Inaugural Meeting - (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 17/18, 2024: Crystal Long and Kent Gorrell - Under the Hood of Database Relationships in Access and SQL Server
• October 29, 2024: Maria Barnes - Integrate Monaco framework to improve SQL editor capabilities
• November 06, 2024: Chris Arnold - An Image / Photo Cataloguer for Access
• 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
• March 05, 2025: John Heaser - Source Control for Access & SQL Databases
• May 15, 2025 @ 9:30 am - 5:00 pm: In-person UKAUG 30th Anniversary Conference 2025, Imperial College London (Armen Stein, other speakers TBA)

Access Roadmap

The following changes were made to the roadmap between the last Week in Review (2024-10-05) and this one (2024-10-12).

• It appears that the "Access Modern Chart Improvements" feature moved back from "Launched" to "In development"

This doesn't make any sense to me. Also, the last modified date for these items is April 2024. Either Microsoft rolled back the roadmap...or I'm losing my mind. As far as I can tell, the Modern Chart feature has been launched to the current channel, and there are no updates to the announcement blog post indicating the feature has been recalled. The Access roadmap is such a neglected mess.

The roadmap was last updated October 4, 2024 ... sometime this past week? 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

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

Rolling Out

None.

Launched

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