First open the file in access, give password, then From Tool->Security-> User and Group Permissions -> then select the table and for the admin account give it all kind of access. This will solve your access problems.

If yes, then how are you distributing the dashboards to your team?

The chances are that you are probably sending the entire bulky Excel file as attachment to your team, right?

Wouldn’t it be convenient to export the Excel dashboard to PDF and then just email the PDF?

Here are the steps to build a true Access Based Dashboard that has PDF and HTML export ability.

And the best thing is, you can put it on the webserver and then just provide the Dashboard URL to your team so they can interact with the dashboard in real time.

Export Excel Dashboard to PDF

In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps in exporting the Access tables to a browsable HTML document.

Launch Access Dashboard Designer and click on the connect button

In the Driver, pick “MS Access .mdf.. “

Click on the “Access/Excel File” and pick the access .mdb file

Click on “Connect”

Click on the “New Blank Dashboard”

Give any descriptive name to the Dashboard

Next, it will show the Query browser and list all the available MS Access tables

Double click on any Table that you wish to export to HTML

Next, click on the alias field to select all the columns (you may select individual columns)

Click on the “Create Table” button

Click on the “Tree Browser icon” in the toolbar

Right click on the node name of the table,

Select ‘Export to HTML’

You may select “Queried Rows” or “All Rows” to HTML

Queried Rows: Will export whatever you have already queried in the dashboard. This means if you have put a restriction in the Qlet to pull only 100 records then it will export only 100 rows to HTML

All Rows: This will re-query the database and export all rows in the table to HTML

Here is the HTML output

You can output multiple tables in the same web page or html document

Goto Menu Create >> Query Builder

Click on the Reset Button

Now double click and bring any other tables you may need. Keep repeating the process until you have added all the tables on the dashboard.

Once added, rename the Qlet name by editing its properties (Hint: Right click on the “Name” title and select Edit)

Right click on Each node in the tree browser and select to include in the report

Now right click on the “Access Dashboard” node to export all the TAbles to HTML

This is the HTML output with the table names as bookmarks

Changing Colors, Formatting Data

With Access dashboard Designer, you get full control over the formatting options on each individual tables

Right click on the table name and select “Edit”

http://www.infocaptor.com/user_help/qlet_properties.htm

Download Access Dashboards

In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps in exporting the Access tables to a browsable PDF document.

Launch Access Dashboard Designer and click on the connect button

In the Driver, pick “MS Access .mdf.. “

Click on the “Access/Excel File” and pick the access .mdb file

Click on “Connect”

Click on the “New Blank Dashboard”

Give any descriptive name to the Dashboard

Next, it will show the Query browser and list all the available MS Access tables

Double click on any Table that you wish to export to PDF

Next, click on the alias field to select all the columns (you may select individual columns)

Click on the “Create Table” button

Click on the “Tree Browser icon” in the toolbar

Right click on the node name of the table,

Select ‘Export to PDF’

You may select “Queried Rows” or “All Rows” to PDF

Queried Rows: Will export whatever you have already queried in the dashboard. This means if you have put a restriction in the Qlet to pull only 100 records then it will export only 100 rows to PDF

All Rows: This will re-query the database and export all rows in the table to PDF

Here is the PDF output

You can output multiple tables in the same pdf

Goto Menu Create >> Query Builder

Click on the Reset Button

Now double click and bring any other tables you may need. Keep repeating the process until you have added all the tables on the dashboard.

Once added, rename the Qlet name by editing its properties (Hint: Right click on the “Name” title and select Edit)

Right click on Each node in the tree browser and select to include in the report

Now right click on the “Access Dashboard” node to export all the TAbles to PDF

This is the PDF output with the table names as bookmarks

Changing Colors, Formatting Data

With Access dashboard Designer, you get full control over the formatting options on each individual tables

Right click on the table name and select “Edit”

http://www.infocaptor.com/user_help/qlet_properties.htm

Download Access Dashboards

In this example we are using the northwind sample database

Click on connect

Once connected it will open the Option wizard

Since there is no dashboard open, the “Build New Query” is disabled.

Click on the “New Blank Dashboard”

Enter some name for the dashboard “Northwind Dashboard”

Click OK

This Action immediately launches the Query Builder interface

Expand the node on the left

This displays a list of available tables

Double click on any table and it brings the table in the Query Builder window

You can now select columns and join then

To create joins, just drag the mouse on a column in the orders table. Once you see the join link appear you may release the mouse button. Now go to the second table and click on the column to which it needs to be joined.

Click on the SQL tab and you can see the SQL query that is automatically built for you

Now click on the “Create Table” button

This action creates a Qlet and places it in the dashboard

You can now right click on any column and create a drop down parameter

The parameter now automatically refreshes the qlet when you change the value