I have been working on a sharepoint search tool. I know very little about sharepoint so if anyone can point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated.
I have a number of tables on a sharepoint site. One of the tables contains the "People" in the database. I have the ability to view this table as a linked table using access, but my coworkers do not have the permissions to do so. My way around it was to use a make table query insert a table into a shared folder and give them read only front end in access to search for the client and when they find them open up a hyperlink to the person on sharepoint. The search feature works great, but I have to manually update the local table (using make table) (which I am not able to do if someone is using the search).
As I see it there are two ways I might be able to solve this, but I am open to any ideas I am by no means an expert:
Is there a better way to search in sharepoint? - I am hoping to have something where they are able to enter in a first name last name dob etc and find the results that match the fields and allow a partial match (so if some fields aren't entered they are ignored). I have not found anything that was able to help me do this, but I do not know what it would be called so if you know what I should look into I would greatly appreciate it!
Is there a way to update the table in Access while someone is using it? Is there another way to accomplish this in access?
What direction do you think I should take? I am usually able to find the information I need online, but I have not had too much success with this.
Thank you!
http://root site URL/_catalogs/users/simple.aspx
This syntax will get you to your hidden user content type list on a SP 2010 site - and you can change the view on this to give you different fields. I haven't yet found a way for this to link to anything that gives me site/list/library access rights, but have found it EXTREMELY useful in place of anything approaching a third party central user administration tool. - You might be able to do something with this for what you're trying to do.
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I am new in web developers world. I have created a website (www.formsify.in) on Wordpress all by learning on internet. I know the basics of coding and programming languages, etc. and the interest so I learn quickly. Now my objective is to let users search and download documents (.pdf). The way I dl it now is by uploading the documents in Media and use buttons to navigate to the page which displays documents in a tabular form.
Now, this works if the documents are less in numbers. But I know the number of documents will increase and it will be very difficult for me to deal with uploading them one by one and creating tables all the time. So I thought to create
(1). Database of documents
(2). Uploading interface
(3). User interface
I want suggestions whether I am thinking in the right direction or can there be a better way to accomplish this. And if this is a right way to do
What database shall I use keeping in mind that I the documents to be stored online so the database should be online.
How should I go about creating the uploading interface keeping in mind that I am not a code-geek.
How shall I be going to design the user interface.
I know these are very wide and open questions. Also because stalwarts here will give me a non-commercial, non-biased view. I just need directions. I was able to create a decent website (as per my standards) when I didn't know much the only thing drove me to do that was that I was hellbent. I will be thankful for any suggestions.
Thanks,
.farhan
So, basically, you should have 2 tables:
User
Upload
User hold an ID and whatever information you want to have on the user and the upload table holds a unique ID, a user ID (of the uploader) and a path to the document
This way, you can select the uploads (add filters if needed) and you can construct the tables and views using the database results
The uploading is a simple html form that will send the file to a php script that will upload the file to a folder (rename it as well) and insert the new path in the dB.
The user interface just needs to hold a bit of html, with a form element and an action to a php script to handle the upload.
You can find the upload script on w3schools, just add the mysql insert to the database.
I am developing a access database front-end, where the database resides in SharePoint list. There is a Attendance Table with AttDate and StaffID columns apart from other columns.
Want to achieve: Only one record is added per staff for a day. i.e. only One Attendance is recorded in a day. When user tries to enter attendance of same staff again on same day, he should get error.
When the back-end was in Access file, I had created an index with 2 columns, and made the index "allow unique values only". The screen looks like this.
Now when, I am moving my back-end to SharePoint, I was expecting same functionality. But, moving Tables to SharePoint using Access 2013 wizard did not create the index. Hence I thought creating it manually will solve the problem. So, I created an index with 2 columns, See screenshot below.
When I entered data, it still allows multiple values , see Screenshot
below
Please help, as to what can be the solution to this problem. I am
allowed to change existing table structure, if the solution so
demands. Any workaround will also be helpful.
SharePoint indexing is more about making it faster to retrieve and search for items in SharePoint. It has nothing to do with unique constraints.
You're going to have to add something to your SharePoint instance that will perform this check for you.
You haven't mentioned whether you're using SharePoint on-line or on-premise. You do say that you're using the Access front-end. This typically means you'll need to use an event receiver which will involve C# (or VB.NET) programming.
Workflows wouldn't prevent the duplicate row from being saved
JavaScript would help if using SharePoint UI, but won't prevent services
You do mention that you're using an Access front-end. Maybe you can add some business logic in your Access file?
Hope this helps
I want to build a small Access database to better keep track of the companies we are looking at. I read Access 2010 Inside Out by Conrad/Viescas, did a lot of their examples and had the feeling I understood the basics, so I started with my own data base. Now the struggle begins, I think I have a basic misunderstanding here.
The relation I started with is quite simple: Each company we look at can have listed peers that we want to use to compare this company to. Of course, each company can have many peers and each peer can be the peer of many of our companies. So I modelled this relation as a many-to-many relationship:
Next, I created the form for a company, which looked something like this:
I related the subform I used to show the peers with a query that is based on tblPeersCompanies_1 and gives some additional information. What I now want from a user perspective is straightforward: A user should simply add peers to this subform for the company he is currently viewing. Access should then automatically update tblPeersCompanies_1 and tblPeers_1. The peers really serve no other purpose than to relate them to a company.
However, I struggle implementing this. Adding a new peer to the subform does not work, simply because it is not based on tblPeers_1 and if I enter the information there, Access notices that the peer is not in that table yet. (That is at least what I think the problem is). How can this be achieved though? I don't want the user to open another form, enter the peer first, go back to this form, type the peer again and the other related information. I hope that there must a simple way to do that automatically. Or is this indeed not so simple.
In summary, the question probably can be phrased as: "How to add records to a matching table and a related one-table on the fly in a form?"
Thanks to the great comment by #Remou, I found a solution to this problem. It contais three steps:
Use a combo box as outlined in another SO post
Use this function to automatically enter new records in case the peer is missing. Call this function in the "On Not in List" event
Show other values from tblPeers by linking it to the selected value in the combo box, as explained here
I have to say, this is much harder than I hoped it to be. Let's hope that the learning curve is steep and that it will at least be easy to use for the user and quite robust.
I am trying to build a user interface which will allow users to choose what kind of information they want, then based on these selected conditions, I need to query an access database and retrieve the corresponding data for future calculation. During calculation, there are two additional tables that I will query from. Finally, I need to display the calculated results to users. Now I have some questions:
Which one will be easier if I use excel as a front-end to users and retrieve querying data from Access to excel vs. I use access forms as a front-end to users and directly work with access to query data?
Does access forms can perform functions like allow users to select options from a drop down list? and once options selected, Access will query the target info?
Can Access perform intermediate calculation for large amount records? Will it get very slow? Compared to excel, which one is better in terms of calculation?
I never use Access before and just know a little about Excel VBA, not totally familiar with it, not to mention object models. So, in this case, which way is time-saving for me? or they are probably the same time-consuming?
Anything else that I should be aware of?
Thanks so much!
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Definitely Access - it is specifically made for working with, querying, and reporting on data. The language of VBA that you have experience with in Excel is the exact same language used for coding in MS Access!
Access, no question!
Absolutely. Of course it doesn't magically know this as your requirement. You have to drop the combo box on the form yourself, and then in the OnChange event of the combo box, alter a query statement that displays results to filter based on the user's selection.
Sure. Make a temp table (a table that is only used for the calculation), populate the records with INSERT statements, apply intermediate calculations with UPDATE statements, and display the results. Access is built for this kind of thing and will most likely be faster than Excel.
Access uses VBA as well. There may be a larger learning curve to switch, but if you are familiar with the user interface objects in Excel such as Button, Combo Box, etc., they will be very similar and yet more intuitive in Access (Because that's what Access was made for)
Access has some quirks. Google a few tutorials and get some background on the ways Access is traditionally used for your kinds of scenarios and it will go a long way toward streamlining your development.
Start with the simplest model that will accomplish what your requirements are, and implement it. Then work through the quirks and bugs that you find with Google as your friend, and you should be able to get something solid pretty quickly! As you get into the experience, feel free to post new questions with specific problems you find along the way.
Best Regards,
This seems to be the hardest thing to get help with - there are no books, no useful google results, and borland's own help facilities are far to complicated for me to isolate the answers I need.
I want to make a connection to an already existing microsoft access database using builder.
I want to be able add/delete/read the records. that's all.
Or failing that. how do I create a simple database/table using builder. It would be ideal if I had an application that could create a table if it didn't already exist, then use that table from that point onwards.
I want to avoid creating DSNs. I want direct access to the database from builder.
If you could point me in the direction of a good online tutorial for this that would be a start. If you could actually provide the help yourself (ie tell me how to do it, rather than show me an article) that would be great and I'd be very greatful.
in portuguese:
http://www.caloni.com.br/blog/archives/banco-de-dados-no-c-builder
see if fits your question
Have you looked at the VCL's ADO components yet? TADOConnection, TADOCommand, etc.