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Microsoft Access 2010
Training
Build and publish web databases
Course contents
.Overview: Create a web database
.Lesson: Includes three instructional movies
.Suggested practice tasks
.Test
.Quick Reference Card

Build and publish web databases

Overview: Create a web database

This course explains how to create

and publish an Access 2010 web
database that runs on Microsoft
SharePoint Server 2010.

Youll also learn how to save a

changed web database to
SharePoint, and how to create a
web database from scratch using a
blank template.

Build and publish web databases

Course goals
. Download a web database template.
. Publish the template to a SharePoint
server running Access Services.
. Change the published database, and save
(synchronize) your changes to SharePoint.
. Build a web database by using a blank
web database template.

Build and publish web databases

Create and publish a web database

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Build and publish web databases

Save a changed database to the web

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Build and publish web databases

Create a web database from scratch

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Suggestions for practice
1. Download a web database template.
2. Trust the database and log in.
3. Change placeholder values.
4. Add a field to a form.
5. Publish a database the first time.
6. Change a published database.
7. Save (synch) a changed database to the web.

Online practice

Build and publish web databases

Test question 1
To publish a new web database for the first time, you go
to Backstage view. Then what? (Pick one answer.)

1. On the Info tab, click Sync All. Enter the URL of your
SharePoint server and a name for the site, then click Publish.
2. On the Recent tab, right-click a database and click Publish
to Access Services. Enter the URL of your server and a
name for the site, and click Publish.
3. On the Save & Publish tab, click Publish to Access
Services. Enter the URL of your Server and a name for the
site, then click Publish to Access Services again.
4. On the Save & Publish tab, click Save Database As. Use
the Save As dialog box to navigate to your SharePoint
Server, and once you open the parent folder for the site, click
Publish to Access Services.
Build and publish web databases
Test question 1
To publish a new web database for the first time, you go
to Backstage view. Then what?

Answer:
3. On the Save & Publish tab, click Publish to Access
Services. Enter the URL of your Server and a name for
the site, then click Publish to Access Services again.

After you publish your database the first time, Access

adds the server URL to a list for easier reuse. If you
change your database, you save your changes to the
web by using the Sync All command on the Info tab.
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Test question 2
To alter a value list in a web database, you do what? (Pick
one answer.)

1. Open the table in Design view, click the Lookup tab,

and alter the values in the Row Source box.
2. Open the table in Datasheet view, right-click a record
in the field with the value list and click Edit List
Items.
3. Click the Fields tab on the ribbon, and in the
Properties group, click Default Value.
4. You dont need to right-click anything. Just double-
click the field and start typing.

Build and publish web databases

Test question 2
To alter a value list in a web database, you do what?

Answer:
2. Open the table in Datasheet view, right-click a record
in the field with the value list and click Edit List Items.

You can also right-click the field header, click

Modify Lookups, and use the Lookup Wizard to
alter the list.

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Test question 3
In a web database, you can use aggregate functions in
your queries. (Pick one answer.)

1. True.
2. False.

Build and publish web databases

Test question 3
In a web database, you can use aggregate functions in
your queries.

Answer:
2. False.

Use aggregate functions in reports (grouping and

totaling) or data macros.

Build and publish web databases

Test question 4
You can add client objects to a web database. (Pick one
answer.)

1. True.
2. False.

Build and publish web databases

Test question 4
You can add client objects to a web database.

Answer:
1. True.

You can add client objects and create a hybrid

database, but you cant publish those objects. You
can only use them when the database is open in
Access.
Build and publish web databases
Test question 5
Which of the following is not a rule for web databases?
(Pick one answer.)

1. You must use Layout view to change a form or

report.
2. You must use Lookup fields instead of table
relationships.
3. You can only create one-to-many relationships in
a web database.
4. You must create tables in Datasheet view.

Build and publish web databases

Test question 5
Which of the following is not a rule for web
databases?

Answer:
3. You can only create one-to-many relationships in a
web database.

You can set indexing and create a one-to-one

relationship, and you can create junction tables and
create many-to-many relationships.

Build and publish web databases

Quick Reference Card
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the Quick Reference Card.

Build and publish web databases