Access Tutorial 7

Web Integration

Overview Note: We’re only doing Session 7.1 (page AC 7.1 - 7.24) and

Session 8.1 and 8.2 Hand-in for lab 7:

Tutorial 7, step 1-5 Tutorial 8, step 1-7 No internet assignment

Tables, queries and results can be exported to HTML (read-only)

Data Access Pages Dynamic HTML documents linked to the database Allows for interacting (incl. updating) data over the web

Caveats Only works with Internet Explorer Security may be an issue

Web Integration Overview

Access Database

Report.htm

Table.htm

Query.htm

File->Save As…

CustomData Access

Page

WizardData Access

Page

FormData Access

Page

TableData Access

Page

2-way arrows!

1-way arrows!

Static or Dynamic

Static web page Displays the table or query data exactly as it

was when the page was created Read-only

Dynamic web page Live data that can be manipulated right in the

Web page Can interact through browser (only IE)

The Export dialog box

This figure shows the Export Dialog box in which the table, NSJI-tbl is being exported as an HTML document.

Note that the Save As Type list box has been changed to HTML document.

Be sure to click the Save Formatted option. This is necessary to include field names, such as column headings.

Set export options

If you have a pre-defined template to use for your Web page, you can select it in the HTML Output Options dialog box. Otherwise, you can specify data encoding options.

Sample HTML code for template

Can also have tags for navigation between pages Check Access Help

Wizard to create a data access page

Access provides a Wizard that helps you create a data access page.

A data access page is an HTML document that can be viewed in a Web browser and contains data from a table or query.

Page Wizard Just like we’ve done before Single table only (as far as I can tell)

Design View More difficult More flexible Can use multiple related tables