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Since MS has repeatedly failed to deliver a web based version of Access that gains traction with the Access development community, why don't we as a collective put together a white paper and present it to Microsoft? I would think we can come to a consensus on a good design for an Access Web...

I put PA at the end because that's what MS wants Access users to migrate to, but I can tell that's not going to happen. MS needs to come up with a better tool that's affordable if they want the millions of Access users to convert. As @arnelgp says, "forever waiting, waiting for jellybean!".

IIRC, LightSwitch replaced SilverLight, and positioned it as an LOB RAD tool, but it didn't gain much traction, and MS replaced it with PowerApps. Is PA similar to LightSwitch? I thought AWA's was a viable solution because it mimicked how we create tables, queries, forms, and reports in...

Feels "young" to me because I haven't heard much about it until lately by @GPGeorge. Perhaps it will get better traction if MS extends its functionality and makes it more affordable? Did PowerBI and PowerQuery gain traction? I'm expecting to see a PowerAI emerge.

It currently seems like that now, however, since MS is fully invested into "Everything on the web", I would think in a couple of years PA will be more evolved, as long as MS sees corporate acceptance stats. Otherwise, PA will go away the same as AWA did a few years later. The consumer small biz...

I think MS' goal with AWA was for it to be fully web based while mimicking how we currently create objects in Access. I remember tinkering with that functionality back in 2013-14. However, web apps are based on stateless unbound architecture, whereas Access VBA works with COM based bound...

I said "if PA cannot fulfill..." because PA is young, Work In Progress, and may some day be as robust as Access, unless you know something we don't? I remember you recently mimicking Access NW2 functionality with PA by making SQL Server Stored Procedures do the heavy lifting. It's too bad we...

How many years ago did you last see MS mention Access when promoting Office/M365?.. I remember seeing brief blurbs about Access in Office Professional 2010.

MS may want Access users to migrate to PA, but if PA cannot fulfill all the needs their Access apps currently delivers, users will continue using Access, as several have been doing for decades. MS is concerned about vba being a high security risk. That's why they wanted to retire desktop Outlook.

I don't think Access will breakaway from Office because vba is the glue that holds all the Office tools together. However, if MS decides to deprecate vba and just go with Online Office, which currently includes Excel, Word, and Outlook, then Desktop Access will be on its own.

"Unlimited" if SQL Server edition is not Express, and running on Windows Server.

Agreed, people like me 🙃

okay, well, i'm going to bail out of this thread because i'ts over my head and don't want to continue sticking my foot in my mouth. i'm not as experienced with Access as several here.

Does code similar to what I used in the On Click and KeyDown events for selecting records on the datasheet subform issue I had in my other thread applicable to what OP wants to accomplish? Private Function CheckForEnterKey(KeyCode As Integer) If KeyCode = vbKeyReturn Then...

I mentioned tag properties because it'similar to what the OP wants to accomplish with his global right click controls.

This is the point I was making to @KitaYama via my analogy of how we do our best to protect our: family, life, health, wallet, keys, money . . .

Thanks, glad I was able to contribute! I'm also feeling much better today after that ordeal at the hospital. Congrats on your new app!

This the funniest post I've seen all day. I kno using tags is cumbersome, but the beauty of it is that you only have to set it up once, then once in a while maybe add a tag to a new field you created. Remember I previously said you can also CRUD tag properties in vba code. Me thinks it's...

I'm done arguing with you, have a good night, or day, wherever you are.

You can do whatever you want, but I absolutely do not recommend the OP follow your advice. I previously suggested the OP aggressively defend the current Access app for all it's merits and you detoured this thread with over 30 posts about Access not being secure which is not a high priority for...