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Book IV
Chapter 1
Publishing Access
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4. From the list of file types, click Template (*.accdt).
The Create New Template from This Database dialog box appears.
5. Enter a Name and Description for your template.
6. Select an Icon that you’d like to use for your template.
7. In the Instantiation Form field, select the form you want to appear as
the default display form.
8. If you want to include the data in the current database as part of the
template, select Include Data in Template, otherwise leave the setting
clear.
9. Click OK.
Note the location where your template is saved.
10. Using your browser, navigate to the home page of the SharePoint site
to which you want to deploy the template.
11. From the Site Actions menu, click Site Settings.
12. From the Galleries section, click Solutions.
The Solutions Gallery appears.
13. Click the Solutions Gallery page to activate the Gallery Ribbon menu.
14. From the New Ribbon group, click Upload Solution.
The Solution Gallery Upload Solution dialog box appears.
15. Browse to the Access Web database template file that you saved in
Step 9.
16. Click OK to upload the file.
Access Services gets busy and wraps the template file in a SharePoint
solution file (.wsp).
17. Select the newly uploaded solution file and click the down arrow next
to the file.
A shortcut menu appears.
18. From the shortcut menu, click Activate.
The template now appears under the Web Databases category as a site
template that you can select when you create a new site.
When you create a site based on your new Access site template, Access
Services extracts the solution file and converts what’s in it to a SharePoint site.
Publishing to Access Services
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