Microsoft’s new smart phone operating system, Windows Phone 8.1 includes an improved web browser. SharePoint lists published from Access 2013 databases can now be resolved correctly on Lumia smart phones. Mobile consumers of SharePoint 2013 and/or SharePoint Online, Office 365 will likely be pleased with this improvement. This writer uses a Lumia 925 Windows Phone […]
Workarounds to Backup an Access 2013 Database Published as an App in SharePoint Online
For organizations choosing a public tenancy SharePoint Online solution, via Office 365, publishing Access 2013 databases as SharePoint 2013 Apps certainly poses a problem. As I wrote in a post to this blog published yesterday, once the Access 2013 database has been published to SharePoint Online as an App, the data layer will no longer […]
Further on the Product Roadmap for SharePoint Forms, from InfoPath 2013 and Forward
InfoPath 2013 will be the last client for this attempt, by Microsoft®, to equip SharePoint with a full-featured forms design, publishing, and management capability. But there is a roadmap, going forward, for SharePoint forms. Some points on this roadmap were presented at SharePoint Conference 2014 in a session titled “Update on InfoPath and SharePoint Forms”. […]
InfoPath 2013 Will Be the Last Desktop Client for this Application, What are Businesses in Need of a No-Code Forms Engine for On Premises Systems to Do?
On February 5, 2014, Gayan Peiris, a Microsoft(R) SharePoint Technology Specialist based in Australia published a very short post to MSDN’s SharePoint Blog. The title of the post is “Update on InfoPath and SharePoint Forms”. The one sentence in the post sure to be “heard round the world” reads as follows: “In an effort to […]
Working with the Forms Designer in Access 2013
We include a video tutorial demonstration of how to use the Access 2013 Forms Designer, Building an Access 2013 Form App to build an electronic form (actually an App) for exposure via SharePoint Server 2013. This video tutorial is authored by Darvish Shadravan, a technical specialist and published author. The tutorial is included in our […]
Introduction to the Access 2013 Form Designer Tool
We provide an introduction to the Form Designer tool, which is included with Access 2013, in a video tutorial titled Form Designer and Interface Model. This video tutorial is one of a total of twenty video tutorials included in a set of specialized training content for SharePoint Server 2013, SharePoint 2013: Enterprise Forms. The author […]
Access 2013 App Model
As Darvish Shadravan, technical specialist and published author notes at the start of a short video tutorial, titled Access 2013 App Model, Access 2013 fully supports the cloud app model for electronic forms in a SharePoint Server 2013 computing environment. In his opinion, the cloud app model “delivers several advantages we didn’t have in the […]