AEU12: State-of-the-art charts in Access using charts.js (Thomas Möller)

This month’s session was led by Thomas Möller (MVP 2007-2016). It was used to demonstrate the use of Javascript libraries to build state-of-the-art charts in Access. In this presentation, Thomas demonstrated: • How to get state-of-the-art charts (based on chart.js) running in Access • The external dependencies and how they can be handled • How the whole feature can be coded elegantly and clearly The presentation can be downloaded as a PDF from https://www.isladogs.co.uk/aeu-12/ The example database is available from Thomas' GitHub site: https://github.com/team-moeller/better-access-charts/releases/ Times: 00:00:00 Welcome - Colin Riddington 00:00:50 Introduction to Better Access Charts (BAC) - Thomas Möller 00:02:14 Outline of presentation schedule 00:03:13 Charts in Access 00:06:25 Charts demo 00:10:18 Chart popularity survey & results 00:12:00 BAC Project - Initial Situation 00:19:32 Web Browser Control in Access 00:23:55 BAC Project dependencies: Registry, Internet, Charts.js, CDN 00:32:32 Chart.js basics 00:46:55 BAC Project demo 01:05:15 Possible presentation continuation 01:06:40 Links 01:07:40 Q&A 01:19:25 Next month: Maria Barnes - Optimizing queries in SQL Server 01:21:48 End Links: Thomas Moeller https://www.team-moeller.de BAC on GitHub https://github.com/team-moeller/better-access-charts Blog posts about BAC https://Blog.Team-Moeller.de/search/label/Better% 20Access%20Charts Getting started with Chart.js /watch/s167=t&AhOui4f80Es87 Modern charts in Access 2019 (CodeKabinett.com) https://www.youTube.com/watch/LW2Ct8Npyzs Web Browser control in Access (Microsoft) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/access.webbrowsercontrol Web Browser control in Access (Daniel Pineault) https://www.devhut.net/everything-you-never-wanted-to-know-about-the-access-webbrowser-control/ Charts.js home https://www.chartjs.org

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