Unable to display Access 2010 Web forms

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Scott Shearer

I am running the RTM versions of SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 on a Windows
7 machine.

I am able to publish Access databases to SharePoint - the site, forms and
lists get created. I am able to access the site and view the lists.
However, when I try to access a web form, I get the following error:
Access Services is unable to process the request.
Click here to try again.

I am able to view and edit the from in the Access client.

To simplify things, I created a web form based on a table with only 2 columns.

Any ideas on what I can try to resolve this issue?
 
You mean you're trying to access the form in SharePoint? My advice is
don't. All changes should be made in the Access client. The Microsoft
development team has a saying with regards to web applications: "Everything
begins and ends with Access client."

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Since no forms seem to render on the web, but they do publish, then often
this comes down to permissions.

For example, I use the IP address such as:

192.168.1.15/combotest/default.aspx

I can get to the basic SharePoint site and browse objects.

However, if I attemp to pblish or launch access web forms, they fail.

If I use the full server name, such as:

http://win-16xrrnvkz0t/combotest/default.aspx

I have not quite figured out why I can't use the IP address url (the rest of
the site works). However, when I use the 2nd url, both publishing and
viewing of forms works fine. There some authentication issue here I not
quite figured out yet.

However, when you view all objects you publish, (view the objects and
settings), you should see something like:

http://cid-b18a57cb5f6af0fa.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/AccessHelp/sp1.png?sa=22284429

Note in the above, some forms did not publish due to problems.

When you list the objects on the web site, do your forms show up as above?

The above shows that you don't necessary need to setup a startup form here.
You can really just launch/view any form from the above list in the the
above screen shot.
 
Roger Carlson said:
You mean you're trying to access the form in SharePoint? My advice is
don't. All changes should be made in the Access client. The Microsoft
development team has a saying with regards to web applications:
"Everything begins and ends with Access client."

--
Click to expand...

The above is so very correct, but the issues were really only a problem
during beta.

If you actually do choose the "modify" form option, it requires and launches
the access client for you to make the modifications. So, one does not have a
choice, the client is launched.

However, in this case the user is just trying to launch the web form, not
actually modify it.

During during development I now often don't setup a "start up" form in
Access for the web site. Thus one can simple "view" the object list of
forms, reports etc in SharePoint. This view is much like the view of objects
in the access client. From that list, any web object can be launched to run
inside of a web browser. So, this saves having to launch the main navigation
form, and then navigate through the application to finally get to the
particular form in question.

So, my browser sits on this URL and I hit f5 after I publish to see the
updated list of objects. I can also click on any object (forms, reports). to
launch it in the web browser.

I also use the above view for debugging. Forms can often pass compatibility
for the web, but when published their code does not compile server side. The
screen here shows this case:

http://cid-b18a57cb5f6af0fa.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/AccessHelp/sp1.png

So, I pretty much keep the above web screen up and running all the time
during development.

In the above you can see that two web forms published to the web, but some
code inside failed compiling web side and thus the "Creating Fail" message.
I have to write up an article as how I then start the process to find/fix
the errors in those bad forms..

I have to say, I really starting to enjoy this new Web toy called Access...
 
No, I am not trying to make any changes to the Access form via SharePoint. I
do understand that all changes to the form must be accomplished in theAccess
client.

My issue is that the web form will not display in SharePoint. When I try to
access the from, I receive an error:
Access Services is unable to process the request.
Click here to try again.

I do not receive any errors wheen publishing to SharePoint. I can view the
list data that was published to SharePoint via "View All Site Content".

In other words, everything works great except that the web forms will not
display ffrom within SharePoint.
 
There were no errors when publishing. In addition, I can see the form and
lists that were created form within SharePoint. The only issue that I have
is that the form will not display.

Also, I was running the SharePoint 2010 beta and the Office 2010 beta with
no issues. I unistalled the beta versions, installed the RTM versions and am
now experiencing this issuee.
 
There were no errors in publishing the form and all looks normal from within
SharePoint. I did not set a startup form, so the "Settings" screen displays
when I access the site. When I try to view the published form, I get an
error.
 
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