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Feb 07, 2022

Access User Group – Europe

Access Europe (AE) is a new online chapter of AccessUserGroups.org. Further details are available from https://accessusergroups.org/europe/

All meetings will be on the first Wednesday of each month from 18:00-19:00 (UK time – currently UTC/GMT) and will be co-chaired by Alessandro Grimaldi & myself (Colin Riddington)

Whilst Access Europe is intended to be at a time suitable for residents of European countries, the meetings are both free and open to all

The first meeting on Wed 2 March will be used to introduce ourselves and explain the purpose of the group, explain how to use the various tools on the Access User Groups website and provide more details about the group as a whole.

We hope you will join us for our first meeting and help ensure the new Access Europe chapter is a success

https://accessusergroups.org/europe/event/access-europe-2022-03-02/

It is intended that Access Europe will largely focus on innovative and lesser-known features in Access.

During the first meeting, there will be short presentations by both Alessandro and Colin as a ‘taster’ of what to expect from future meetings. The session will also provide an opportunity for those attending to suggest possible topics of interest for subsequent meetings.

 

We already have an exciting range of speakers and topics booked for the coming months, starting on Wed 6 April with Chris Arnold who will be demonstrating his new and very powerful Access Studio application.

Please sign up to get notified about details of future events

  • The thread is for information and, as such, has been posted in several locations.

    Many thanks for your 'support'.

  • The thread is for information and, as such, has been posted in several locations.

    Many thanks for your 'support'.

  • The next Access Europe meeting will be on Wednesday 4 May at 18:00 (6PM) UK time (currently UTC+1).
    This is equivalent to 19:00 (7PM) in Central Europe / CEST (UTC+2) and 10AM in Seattle / PDT (UTC-7)
    For other local times, see https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/

    The session will be presented by Crystal Long who will be comparing Classic vs Modern Charts in Access.

    Here is one of Crystal's example charts: 

    For more details about the event, see:

    https://accessusergroups.org/europe/event/access-europe-2022-05-04/


    The meeting will again be held on Zoom. You can connect using:
    Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting


    If you are asked:
    Meeting ID: 924 3129 5683
    Passcode: 661210

    I hope you will be able to join us!

     

     

  • The video of my Optimising Queries & the JET Show Plan presentation to Access Europe on 7 Sept is now available on YouTube:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVe3InnJaAE

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    The next Access Europe meeting will be on Wednesday 5 Oct at 18:00 (6PM) UK time (currently UTC+1).
    This is equivalent to 19:00 (7PM) in Central Europe / CEST (UTC+2) and 10AM in Seattle / PDT (UTC-7)
    For other local times, see https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/

     

    This month, my co-chair Alessandro Grimaldi will be doing a presentation on Cataloguing and searching emails with Access
    For more details, see: ​https://accessusergroups.org/europe/event/access-europe-2022-10-05/

     

    The meeting will again be held on Zoom. You can connect using: Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting
    I hope you will join us!

  • The video of Alessandro Grimaldi's presentation to Access Europe on 5 Oct is now available on YouTube:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0ddewwT358

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    The next Access Europe meeting will be on Wednesday 2 Nov at 18:00 (6PM) UK time (UTC)

    IMPORTANT: Clocks in the UK and Europe revert to winter-time this coming weekend but those in the USA do not

    So this will be equivalent to 19:00 (7PM) in Central Europe / CEST (UTC+1) and 11AM in Seattle / PDT (currently UTC-7)

    For other local times, please check https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/

     

    This month, we are pleased to have ex-MVP George Hepworth (@GroverParkGeorge) leading a presentation on PowerApps for Access Developers.

    It promises to be a very interesting and innovative session covering areas that many access developers may not be familiar with

    For more details, see: https://accessusergroups.org/europe/event/access-europe-2022-11-02/

    The meeting will again be held on Zoom. You can connect using: Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

    I hope you will join us!

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      isladogs
      MVP

      The video of George Hepworth's excellent presentation to Access Europe on 2 Nov is now available on YouTube:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n63LllshIg

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      The next Access Europe meeting will be on Wednesday 7 Dec at 18:00 (6PM) UK time (UTC)

      This is equivalent to 19:00 (7PM) in Central Europe / CET (UTC+1) and 10AM in Seattle / PDT (UTC-8)

      For local times, please check https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/

       

      This month, I will be running a presentation on Annotating Google Maps in Access

      I will demonstrate ways of personalise downloaded maps for your clients. Topics to be covered will include the use of:

      • marker points e.g. to mark client locations or nearby places
      • lines joining 2 or more points e.g. to indicate routes between locations
      • circles around a location e.g. to show places of a specified type within a specified distance from a set location
      • boundary shapes e.g. to show postcode or regional boundaries
      • feature styles e.g. to mark major & minor roads and points of interest

      All annotations are added as additional map layers using code as part of the URL used to generate the map.

      The session will also explain how to overcome issues caused by the 2083-character URL limit using the current web browser control based on IE (whilst we continue to wait for the new Chromium Edge browser control). An example database will be provided in conjunction with the session

      For more details, see: https://accessusergroups.org/europe/event/access-europe-2022-12-07/

      The meeting will again be held on Zoom. You can connect using: Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

      I hope you will join us!

      • isladogs's avatar
        isladogs
        MVP

        The video of my presentation to Access Europe on 7 Dec is now available on YouTube:

        AEU: Annotate Google Maps in Access (Colin Riddington) - YouTube

         

        The next Access Europe meeting will be on Wednesday 4 Jan 2023 at 18:00 (6PM) UK time (UTC)

        This is equivalent to 19:00 (7PM) in Central Europe / CET (UTC+1) and 10AM in Seattle / PDT (UTC-8)

        For local times, please check https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/

         

        I am very pleased to announce that Karl Donaubauer (long time MVP, organiser of Access DevCon and the Access News videos) will be running a presentation called A baker’s dozen of tips, tricks and tools in 60 minutes

         

        As the topic title indicates, the session will be used to demonstrate about a dozen of Karl’s favourite tips, tricks and tools. It may also be 14 or 16…

         

        Anyway, if you think you already know everything about Access, you’ve come to the right place.
        Karl is constantly collecting techniques, tools, solutions and explanations that you don’t hear and read everywhere. This time for example:

        • Access/VBA settings overlooked for decades
        • how to program Access properties in VBA that don’t exist in VBA
        • how to get return code (exit code) from external programs
        • finally, the horizontal continuous form
        • a tool to generate & integrate QR codes at the push of a button
        • a tool that generates professional related test data
        • context menus without right mouse, colours in combo and list boxes… and other small stuff

         

        For more details, see: https://accessusergroups.org/europe/event/access-europe-2023-01-04/ 

        The meeting will again be held on Zoom. when the time comes, you can connect using: Join Zoom Meeting
        I hope you will join us!

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