Access (Desktop Application)
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Integrate MS Access with Power Apps
I've been looking more into Power Apps, and I think it would be great for you to work with the Power Apps team to provide a web and mobile solution to what Access can do today on the premises of a server. Because there is unfortunately no web version of Access, maybe Power Apps can help solve this problem? Ideally, we should be able to continue moving (and linking) Access data into SQL and then create a Power App on top of the "Access-created" data from SQL; essentially viewing a Power Application that looks exactly like access but online and…
37 votesNeed more info ·AdminMicrosoft Access Product Team (Microsoft Access Product Team, Microsoft) responded
This is great feedback that we are actually working on providing now. Using the comments below, we’d love to hear thoughts about solely focusing on SQL as a stepping stone to Power Apps for data migration purposes, or also investing in another way for you to connect to Power Apps through the Common Data Service (CDS). This database allows you to store, share and manage your data over the web, and eventually the phone (current MS investment). CDS is also Power Apps’ central underlying storage unit, as well as the entire Power Platform team’s key investment.
Please see following link for information about CDS, and let us know: if Access created a data export & linked table capability from our platform to CDS, would you use it?:
https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fpowerapps%2Fmaker%2Fcommon-data-service%2Fdata-platform-intro&data=04%7C01%7CEbo.Quansah%40microsoft.com%7C32c26c86b7fe4f3162a508d7f069896d%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637242208373640123%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C-1&sdata=GuvQ6o2aqKiBMs%2B1z2nvv0sNtAHNl8MPQqiOvsh0D1U%3D&reserved=0We will still continue to make investments in SQL connection either way, but we are also happy to…
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improve appearance and design of Access Forms
modern optical effects like in Windows 10 or modern webpages would heavily improve the value of created Apllications.
Better Mouseover-Effects for Buttons, Fading Effects for Forms....
it would be great!29 votesNeed more info ·AdminMicrosoft Access Product Team (Microsoft Access Product Team, Microsoft) responded
Thank you for this feature request. Can you please be more specific with what requests would enhance the overall Access Forms appearance? What specifically would you like to see regarding Fading effects? What other suggestions do you have?
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Generate barcodes
Access needs a native control that accepts a string and outputs it as a barcode displayed on a Form or Report.
The most commonly used barcodes these days are:
Code 128
Code 39
DataMatrix
PDF417
QR Code
etchttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode
reason for request: there is no easy way to generate barcodes, especially 2D ones with pure VBA without having to reference external OCX/DLL libraries.
Office (Access, Word, Excel) needs a built in barcode control.100 votesHi Piotr, and barcode supporters,
It would be good to hear more about what you’d expect from a native barcode control -
what formats are mostly used? what are other requirements for barcode support?Thanks,
Michal [MSFT] -
Coloured Tabs in Tabbed Forms
The only way to make a tabbed form have a colour is to resort to some trick like using a coloured background behind a transparent tab or pasting an image onto it. These cause problems when moving controls around.
It would be nice for the tab control to have the same functionality as a form where one can set the background colour.
41 votesThe team has reviewed this request and seems like different people are commenting about different things.
@Nigel, can you please elaborate what you meant in this request?
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Listbox update
Have a fully programmable listbox with events like comctl listbox and treeview we had. Sizable columns, header click, sorting, image support.
66 votesHi Yossi,
Thanks for posing on Access UserVoice.
We are not quite sure we fully understand the suggestion here.
Could you elaborate and provide more details?Thanks,
Michal [MSFT] -
reference
the behavior of broken references could be improved. Actually a broken reference leads to strange Problems in Areas that are not directly affected by the reference
3 votesPlease provide more information regarding the strange problems you are experiencing.
Thanks,
Michal [MSFT] -
Access 2016: Form Property No Border still shows border!
Access 2016: Form Property No Border still shows border! Property Popup = No.
4 votesThanks Bruno for posting.
I’m unclear of the issue you are describing. Could you please elaborate?Thanks
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7 votes
Please elaborate on this request – we need more information and concrete example.
Thanks,
Michal [MSFT] -
7 votes
Not sure if this is a bug report, or something very specific for your database.
Please share more information so we can understand the issue.
Thanks,
The Access Team -
4 votes
Thanks Brent for posting.
Please provide more information about the scenario you’d like to accomplish and impact on business/customers.
Thanks,
Michal [MSFT] -
More Controls are every time in the foreground (e.g. slider, speed) when you work with a sub form
There are several controls that always in the foreground (eg. Speed, Slider, ..) appear and other controls can not be covered). This is very disturbing when programming.
3 votesThanks for your suggestion.
Please provide more information about your request.
Also note there is (maybe) a similar request here https://access.uservoice.com/forums/319956-access-desktop/suggestions/10207788-provide-these-3-basic-native-controls-slider-spi – if it is indeed the same, please let us know and we’ll combine the two.Thanks,
Michal [MSFT] -
Fix how the tabbed interface behaves when switching to design view
When using the tabbed interface, if you switch a form out of Form view to Design view, the interface changes to the next tab in the sequence. You have to manually re-select the tab you were working on each time, which is really annoying. This bug affects all versions that support the tabbed interface, from what I have observed.
4 votesWith the latest version of Access, we are not able to reproduce the issue you are describing.
If you still experience problems with the tabbed interface please provide information about the version you are using, and steps to reproduce.Thanks,
Access Engineering
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