Category Archives: Tips & Tricks

Suppress Multiple Authentication Prompts when using Access 2013 Web Databases

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Mike

Here is a short video that shows how to configure Internet Explorer so that hosted Access Web Databases do not require multiple logons to the SharePoint 2013 site collection. If you are getting repeated requests to logon to your SharePoint … Continue reading →

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Cross-Post from AccessExperts Blog

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Mike

We have partnered with the Access Experts to offer our SQL 2012 Hosting Service. Check out this video tutorial on some advanced code techniques that would be compatible with our SQL or RDP hosting: Learn advanced techniques on Microsoft TempVars, … Continue reading →

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First Look at Access 15 / Access 2013′s Metro Design

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Mike

When you first boot up the Access 15 Public Preview, you will be greeted with the option to create a blank web database, a blank desktop database or select one of the Desktop or Web templates that are available.  It … Continue reading →

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Introduction and Getting Started Video for RDP Hosting

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Mike

This video introduces you to our Remote Desktop Hosting service. It shows you how easy it is to get started using RDP hosting with our free trial and how to easily copy/paste your local Access database up into the cloud. … Continue reading →

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Moving Your Microsoft Access Database to the Cloud

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Mike

AccessHosting.Com offers a number of different approaches for moving Access 2003, 2007 and 2010 databases off of your desktop or corporate network and onto the web. Moving your Access database to the cloud has wide ranging benefits including increased security, … Continue reading →

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Demystifying currentwebuser(x)

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Larry

As many of you know currentwebuser(x) can be used inside your Access Web Database as follows: 0 gives current user’s member ID. 1 gives current user’s display name. 2 gives current user’s login name 3 gives current user’s e-mail address. … Continue reading →

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Screencast Organizer Template now on office.com

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Larry

Great news – the screencast tutorial web database that we developed to help organize our Access 2010, SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 tutorials has been accepted as a direct download from Microsoft. Access 2010 users can now go to the … Continue reading →

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Get an Access Database on the web in less than 5 minutes

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Larry

How it Works When you publish a web database, Access Services creates a SharePoint site that contains the database. Every database you publish will have it’s own unique URL (i.e. demo.accesshosting.com/database1/). All of the database tables, forms, reports and queries … Continue reading →

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Charting inside Access Web Databases using SharePoint 2010

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Larry

This tutorial walks through the process of creating an Access Web Database, connecting tables in that database to a SharePoint Chart Web Part, and then incorporating that chart back inside an Access 2010 Web Form:

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How to Customize the Access 2010 Ribbon

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Mike

This short tutorial video will teach you how to create a customized ribbon in Access 2010.  You can place all the commands that you use the most in one custom ribbon and save a lot of time and improve your … Continue reading →

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Access 2010 Tips: 5 Tips to increase Productivity

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Mike

1. Get to Know the Ribbon If you skipped Office 2007 and are making the jump from Access 2003, the Microsoft’s Ribbon is a new feature and potential annoyance.  I know that when I first switched from Excel 2003 to … Continue reading →

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Access 2010: Interactive menu to ribbon guide

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Mike

If you’re getting lost in Microsoft Access 2010′s Ribbon then this interactive reference guide is for you.  It will help you transition from Access 2003′s menu system to the Access 2010 ribbon.  It’s a visual, interactive reference guide to help … Continue reading →

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How to Create a Web Database from Excel

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Mike

Lately we have gotten a lot of questions about how businesses can take their old access databases or excel spreadsheets and get them on the web with Access Hosting. The tutorial video above will hopefully demonstrate some of the issues … Continue reading →

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5 Reasons why Microsoft Access Schools Quickbase

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Mike

Back in 1999, Intuit launched Quickbase – a web-based collaborative database application that allows business people to create their own custom applications without writing code. The application is hosted by Intuit and sold by subscription.  At the time, Quickbase had quite … Continue reading →

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How to Delete Your Published Access Web Database from SharePoint 2010

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Mike

This short video will walk you through the steps necessary to remove a published database from SharePoint 2010. This process should be used with caution as the database, when removed completely, is no longer recoverable from the recycle bin.

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Where to download an evaluation copy of Access 2010

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Mike

If you need an evaluation copy of Access 2010 to test alongside our Access Hosting service you can find it here.  Remember that Access 2010 is only included in the Office Professional 2010 Suite, NOT the Office Home or Office Student editions of … Continue reading →

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Demystifying the Access 2010 runtime client

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Mike

The introduction of web based forms and reports in Access 2010 is a huge step forward for the product, but there are many scenarios which dictate that an application be developed natively in Access 2010. Fortunately, the Access 2010 runtime … Continue reading →

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Distribute Your Access 2010 Web Application with an ACCDW file

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Mike

This short video will show you how to distribute your Access 2010 Web Application to other Access users by creating and ACCDW link. The ACCDW file is a small shortcut file that allows users to connect to your web database … Continue reading →

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Create an Access 2010 Table Using Copy/Paste

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Mike

One quick and easy way to create a new table in your Access Web Database is to use the clipboard and copy/paste from Excel or any other tabular data source.

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Delivering Email from Your Access 2010 Web Application

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Mike

We recently published a short video tutorial on using data macros to trigger an email alert in Access 2010 (see below).  Since this behavior assumes that you are running on SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition and relying on SharePoint for email … Continue reading →

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