Chapter 34: Understanding Access Services
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FIGURE 34.1The Backstage area with the Publish to Access Services button and the Share button
Publish to Access Services buttonShare buttonNote that the Publish to Access Services button in Figure 34.2 is disabled. You must run
Compatibility Checker before this button is enabled. As its name implies, Compatibility Checker
examines the application for issues that may prevent it from publishing to SharePoint without
error. Unless the application is extremely simple, containing just a few tables, queries, forms, and
reports and very little code, it is unlikely that it will pass Compatibility Checker the first time
around. Chapter 35 discusses the most common compatibility failures and what you can do to
resolve these issues so that your application will successfully publish to SharePoint Services.At the conclusion of a successful publishing process, the current Access application remains intact.
All tables and other database objects are converted to Web-compatible versions (more on this in
Chapter 35) but are not removed from the current application. You retain the published Access
application because you will use it in the future to maintain the Web version of the application.
You make changes to the Access version of the application and resynchronize the database objects
with their SharePoint counterparts.