Since March I've gone from 0 software development knowledge to being fairly proficient in cranking out useful apps in MS Access with good VBA coding. I also was able to migrate the Access backend to SQL Server 2005, and write some automation (which y'all graciously helped with!).
Access isn't cutting it anymore though due to user access requirements, and if this resource management database I'm working on has any hope of being adopted I'm going to need some help.
What I want to know is, what's a good route to explore in order to make my front end web based? My requirements are pretty basic:
The problem is I don't know enough to even get started. I've played around with HTML and had a class on C a long time ago, but I was able to pick up advanced Visual Basic techniques and learn T-SQL pretty quickly (Google is a beautiful thing). I'm willing to learn anything and everything, and I intend to work pretty damn hard to show that we can migrate this to a web interface.
I know this is really general and I'll probably get a lot of responses, but considering the above, what do I need to do? I have access to the full MSDN catalog, as well as servers to test and host this on. I basically just need to know what to Google first.
As always, feel free to ask me anything I didn't cover that is pertinent, and thanks so much for your help! :beer:
Access isn't cutting it anymore though due to user access requirements, and if this resource management database I'm working on has any hope of being adopted I'm going to need some help.
What I want to know is, what's a good route to explore in order to make my front end web based? My requirements are pretty basic:
- Navigate to an internal webpage
- Prompt user for log in information
- Check login vs Active Directory
- Apply user permissions based on user category (defined within admin panel of app, preferably)
- View and edit various tables of information, but something more visually pleasing than a pure datasheet
- View reports of calculated data (predefined)
- Eventually allow user generated reports
- Export reports into Excel templates that user can download
The problem is I don't know enough to even get started. I've played around with HTML and had a class on C a long time ago, but I was able to pick up advanced Visual Basic techniques and learn T-SQL pretty quickly (Google is a beautiful thing). I'm willing to learn anything and everything, and I intend to work pretty damn hard to show that we can migrate this to a web interface.
I know this is really general and I'll probably get a lot of responses, but considering the above, what do I need to do? I have access to the full MSDN catalog, as well as servers to test and host this on. I basically just need to know what to Google first.
As always, feel free to ask me anything I didn't cover that is pertinent, and thanks so much for your help! :beer: