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susanherre
Jan 29, 2023Copper Contributor
Database for non-profits
I need advice on setting up a database, and am wondering if Access would be good. We would like to include in the database: 1) contacts with name, address, phone - general contacts, volunteers, in...
arnel_gp
Jan 30, 2023Iron Contributor
there is a Template available for you as starter, but need some modification.
- susanherreJan 30, 2023Copper ContributorThank you. I will look at it.
- George_HepworthJan 30, 2023Silver ContributorThat's very interesting and unexpectedly cool. It was intended to be a web database, which would have run on SharePoint with Linked SharePoint lists. That approach was deprecated with the 2013 version, which replaced them with Access Web Apps, which used SQL Azure tables.
However, it still functions with the tables as local tables. You can't edit tables or forms in this web database in the same way you would a normal accdb. You have to edit forms in layout view and tables in datasheet view. I would be interested to know, Arnel, if you've published it to SharePoint yourself lately?