Slide deck from my updated course on Access 2019

1. MODULE 8
BUILDING A COMPLETE
APPLICATIONSTO WORK
WITH THE DATABASE
ALEXANDER BABICH
ALEXANDER.TAURUS@GMAIL.COM

2. MODULE OVERVIEW
• Design the application. Using UML.The concept of
precedents
• Application templates
• Issues of building user interface
• Configure application settings. Hiding unwanted elements of
the MS Access user interface
• Additional features. Connecting external data sources.
Publishing a Database to SharePoint

3. LESSON 1: NOT A DB, BUT AN APP
• Design the application. Using UML.The concept
of precedents
• Application templates
• Issues of building user interface

4. ACCESS APPLICATION DESIGN
• Application = Data + User Interface
• Data structure design
• ER charts*
• Normalization
• User Interface Design
• UML
• Usability

5. DATA STRUCTURE DESIGN
https://www.holistics.io/blog/top-5-free-database-diagram-design-tools/

6. DATA STRUCTURE DESIGN

7. NORMALIZATION
• The process of converting a database to a form that
meets normal forms
• Designed to bring the database structure to a form that
provides minimal redundancy
• Not intended
• decrease or increase in productivity
• decrease or increase in database size
• The ultimate goal is to reduce the potential
inconsistency of information stored in the database.

8. NORMALIZATION

9. UML
• Unified Modeling Language
• Graphic notation for designing anything
• Data structure
• Class diagrams
• User interaction
• Use case diagrams
• Other diagrams

10. CLASS
• Category of things that have
common attributes and operations
• Class diagram
• The final result of the design and the
starting point of the development
process
• useful in analyzing the domain area

11. CLASS DIAGRAM

12. USE CASE
• Description of a separate aspect of system
behavior from the user's point of view
• Allows you to create custom system
requirements

13. USE-CASE DIAGRAM

14. APPLICATION TEMPLATES
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15. APPLICATION TEMPLATES
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16. APPLICATION TEMPLATES

17. UI & UX
• The user interface (UI), in the industrial design field of
human–computer interaction, is the space where
interactions between humans and machines occur
• User experience (UX) refers to a person's emotions and
attitudes about using a particular product, system or
service. It includes the practical, experiential, affective,
meaningful and valuable aspects of human–computer
interaction and product ownership

18. UI DESIGN
• Forms for entering data
• Form for each task
• Effective menus
• Feeling of speed
• Process Information
• Smart borrowing
• Religion, art, not science☺

20. UI DESIGN
https://jdittrich.github.io/quickMockup/
https://blog.capterra.com/free-and-open-source-wireframe-tools/

21. LESSON 2: SETTING UP
APPLICATIONS
• Configure application settings. Hiding unwanted
elements of the MS Access user interface
• Additional features. Connecting external data
sources. Publishing a Database to SharePoint

22. CONFIGURE APPLICATION
SETTINGS

23. ADDITIONAL FEATURES
• Work with external data
• import and attach a DB
• SharePoint integration *
• Move data to server
• Data publication
• Opening SharePoint lists in Access
• ...

24. ADDITIONAL FEATURES

25. ADDITIONAL FEATURES

26. EXERCISE
1. Configure the start-up
database parameters so
that at the start it
behaves like a full-
fledged application

27. BOTTOM LINE
• Design the application. Using UML.The concept of
precedents
• Application templates
• Issues of building user interface
• Configure application settings. Hiding unwanted elements of
the MS Access user interface
• Additional features. Connecting external data sources.
Publishing a Database to SharePoint

28. QUESTIONS?

29. SELF-TEST
• What is UML?
• What are classes and use cases?
• What opportunities to create applications
provides Access?
• How to configure application launch settings?