Chapter 12. WORKING WITH DATA PAGES
IN THIS CHAPTER
Probably one of the most new exciting and powerful features in Access 2000—and one of the most confusing—are Data Access Pages (DAPs). Data Access Pages are Microsoft's closest attempt yet at melding Access with the Web. Data Access Pages are HTML documents that you create through Access by using Jet or SQL Server for the data source.
Note
You will see the terms Data Access Page, DAP, data page, and page used for the same item throughout this chapter.
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This chapter is located here to flow with the other UI objects (forms and reports). If you're unfamiliar with Internet terminology, you might want to jump ahead and read Chapter 19, “Using Access with the Internet,” before tackling this chapter.
DAPs can be used
On a pure Web site on the Internet or an intranet.
As a combination of both. For example, the input side and maintenance can be performed in an Access application, whereas information retrieval and comparison can be set up for the Web by using the same Access application.
This chapter starts off slowly by looking at creating basic DAPs, including the samples that come in the standard Northwind.mdb database. Then you cruise into working with the sample database (Chap12.mdb) included on the CD-ROM in the ExamplesChap12 folder.