#Visual studio import ms access database upgrade

Click on the “ Manage site collections” link. The SharePoint Online administration center will open in a new page. From the Admin Overview page, click on the Manage link under SharePoint Online: To create a new site collection, log into your Office 365 account. Before we publish, we’ll first create a new SharePoint site collection. Once you’ve fixed all the compatibility errors, you’re ready to publish your database to the web. See the Microsoft Office site for a list of General and Schema errors. For example, the columns in your Access table cannot have a slash (/) in their name and you cannot use custom currency formats. Most of the errors are generally easy to fix. Access will create a Web Compatibility Issues table which contains all the compatibility issues in your database. To view them click the “ Web Compatibility Issues” button. In my case there are some compatibility issues. To do this all you need to do is click on the “ Run Compatibility Checker” button in the Access backstage view. Under the Publish heading, there is the option to Publish to Access Services.īefore we can safely publish our database, it is recommended to first check whether your database is compatible with the web. Once the database is saved in Access 2010 format, you can publish it by opening it in Access and selecting Save & Publish from the File menu (Backstage View).

#Visual studio import ms access database upgrade

When the user clicks on the ID field a new window opens where the employees can capture details about the project:īefore you can publish your database to Office 365 you need to upgrade it to Microsoft Access 2010. It has a simple project list, which displays the current projects: In today’s post I want to look at how they could’ve leveraged Office 365 Access services to web-enable their database.įirst, let’s look at the Access database. This worked fine for a year or so until they realized they needed to give their consultants the ability to add their time worked from anywhere.Īnother year and a considerable amount of money later a new system was written (not by me unfortunately :)) to enable their employees/consultants to bill from anywhere. I was asked to move the database to a Microsoft SQL server backend, whilst keeping MS Access as the front-end.

As the company expanded the database grew up to a point where they realized an upgrade is needed. A few years ago I had a client who since they started their business used a Microsoft Access database to track their projects and the time their consultants worked on projects.