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Airbonzo - 25 May 2007 15:22 GMT

I'm having a hell of a time making my data access pages act the way I want.
For example, I need my page to refresh the data in several combo boxes when
a user wants to add more options to it.
I also need my page to remember what record it was on, unfortunaly my server
filters are being stubborn
Is there a reference manual or website that give a rather complete
description of how to do these things?

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Ken Snell (MVP) - 25 May 2007 16:57 GMT

I don't know of any good papers / sites for DAPs. They have not been
well-documented nor widely used; in fact, ACCESS 2007 does not support the
creation/editing of DAPs any more, so they're being deprecated.

MSDN has some articles that may be helpful. Go to this page:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/default.aspx

On left side menu, select "Office Solutions Development", then "Microsoft
Office XP", then "Access 2002", then "Technical Articles". You will find
some articles there about DAPs.

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> I'm having a hell of a time making my data access pages act the way I
> want.
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> Is there a reference manual or website that give a rather complete
> description of how to do these things?

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James A. Fortune - 25 May 2007 20:11 GMT

> I'm having a hell of a time making my data access pages act the way I want.
> For example, I need my page to refresh the data in several combo boxes when
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> Is there a reference manual or website that give a rather complete
> description of how to do these things?

It is my guess that DAP's are being deprecated because MS is putting
similar capabilities into SharePoint. If you need to continue down the
DAP path then consider using SharePoint. I don't have any experience
using SharePoint other than noting that I saw a Microsoft demo in
SharePoint that included DAP-like capabilities.

James A. Fortune
MPAPoster@FortuneJames.com

Never assume that a software package can do any more than what you saw
in the demo. -- JWK

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