Data Access Pages
MS Access was originally designed to be the premier desktop database application development tool for Microsoft Windows. But today there are features in MS Access that allow you to access the data stored in your application database on Web pages.
Introducing Data Access Pages
Data access pages are completely different from any of the other objects in Access and are not physically stored inside the Access database like forms and reports. Data access pages are actually HTML files that link to an object in your Access desktop database or project file. Data access pages are a cross between forms and reports and can be used to display and edit data similar to forms or display total groups of information similar to a report. The following are the different ways to create data access pages:
- Create data access page in Design view : This shortcut initializes the data access page development environment and displays a blank page.
- Create data access page by using wizard: This option runs a wizard that prompts for specifications and then creates a data access page automatically.
- Edit existing web pages: This shortcut lets you open an existing data access page not linked into your database’s Pages list.
