This is RAD at its most efficient. For both objects the procedure is the same. Right click the object, and in the dialog that follows, choose to save the object as a Data Access Page. Then choose a location to save the page as well; you can change the name. The following two screen shots are for the form and report created earlier. Both of them saved to the default location, C:\ My Documents. No other details are needed. By saving them to a virtual folder, they can be hosted on the intranet.
Creating DAP in MS Access is very easy. The tutorial outlines how this is done. Once a query is correctly set up, the creation of DAP follows lines similar to the creation of other table/query based objects, namely Forms and Reports. These pages may be hosted on a web server for Internet access, otherwise, if they are tied to local folders, they will be unavailable on the intranet or Internet as the case may be. For network access the connection string needs to be edited to direct to a relative path. Changes made to the underlying data get reflected in the DAP.
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