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Chapter 1
Publishing Access
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an application under development. You can assign, prioritize, and follow
the progress of issues from start to finish.
✦ Projects Web Database: Use this site template to create a project-tracking
Web database that you can use to follow the progress of multiple projects
stage by stage, and assign tasks to members of your team.
In addition to the standard templates that come with SharePoint, you can
find a plethora of Access Web database templates on the Internet — not
only from Microsoft, but also from third-party vendors. For example, the
Microsoft Web site provides you with a sample Web database application
(starring the intrepid imaginary company Northwind Traders) that’s a virtu-
ally painless introduction to the process of publishing and synchronizing
content from the Access client application to Access Services.
You can customize these templates to suit your business needs — and then
upload them to your Site Template Gallery for use in your SharePoint envi-
ronment. Alternatively, you can simply publish the Web database applica-
tion to SharePoint creating a SharePoint Web application.
Using a template to create your Web database application means you don’t
have to create your application from scratch, which saves time; you can get
your applications up and running as quickly as possible.
Follow these steps to create an Access Web database application directly
from SharePoint:
1. Using your browser, navigate to the home page of your SharePoint
site.
2. From the Site Actions menu, click New Site.
The Create site page appears, displaying a list of the available
SharePoint site templates sorted by category.
3. From the list of categories, click Web databases.
The list of available Access Web database site templates appears.
4. Select the Web database template that you want to use as the basis of
your site.
5. In the Title field, enter the title for your site.
6. In the URL field, enter the URL to your site.
7. Click More Options.
8. In the description field, enter a description for your site.
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