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Book IV
Chapter 1
Publishing Access
Applications
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✦ The Compatibility Checker is highlighted in red to indicate that errors
turned up. (It’s not embarrassed; it just looks that way.)
✦ This status message appears:
The database is incompatible with the Web. Press Web Compatibility Issues
to see errors.
✦ The Web Compatibility Issues button is enabled.
Figure 1-9 shows the Compatibility Checker for a database that isn’t Web-
compatible.
Figure 1-9:
Access
lets you
know if your
application
isn’t Web-
compatible.
When you click the Web Compatibility Issues button, Access displays a list
of all Web-compatibility problems the Checker found, along with a descrip-
tion of each error (complete with Issue Type ID and a link to a Microsoft arti-
cle that provides more information on the error and a possible resolution).
Figure 1-10 shows an example of the compatibility error found in a database
that uses on OLE data type for a field in one of its tables. Figure 1-11 shows
details of the error as they appear on the Microsoft site.
Publishing your Access Web database
When you’ve made sure that your database application is Web-compatible,
you’re ready to publish the Web database application to Access Services
(that is, SharePoint).
Figure 1-10:
Access
provides
a list of
compatibility
issues.
Publishing to Access Services
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