Gallery of Screen Shots
Microsoft Access is known as a Rapid Application Development (RAD) product – meaning that custom applications can be quickly developed, debugged, and deployed.
At Beach Access Software custom applications can be developed even more rapidly through the use of a library of already existing input forms, reports, queries, in addition to many pre-programmed functions. These libraries, accumulated over a period of years of development, ensure that our clients not only receive great value but that their applications are delivered quickly with a minimum of bugs. In other words -- fast, accurate professional solutions at an economical price.
Below you can see several screen shots of applications developed at Beach Access Software. The primary objective of each of these applications is to make the program so intuitive that the user can run it without reading a technical manual or needing training.
Toy Track is an application built specifically for the local chapters of the national Toys For Tots program which collects and distributes toys to tens of thousands of children every Christmas. The application tracks parents, children, volunteers, donors and donations assisting the local chapters in every aspect of toy collection and distribution. View additional information about
Toy Track
A log in form is the common opening form for many applications. It requires the user to enter a name
and a password to gain access to the program and data.
Access is commonly granted in three levels: 1) read
only, 2) read write, 3) administrator. The forms and
code to control this function exists in a library which
makes it easy to copy and insert into any application.
Occasionally it becomes necessary to implement a
more detailed scheme of access ~~ granting read only
or updating permission at the form, function, or even
data field level. Here you see a permission form which
grants access by action or function to the three levels
of access.
Sometimes a record contains so much information
that it cannot fit entirely on one screen. For example,
to profile a hotel for a reservation application some
120 data items are needed. In that case, a tabbed form,
as you see here, is used and the data is grouped logically
onto separate pages.
Another way to control access to functions in an
application is to design separate main menus. Here
the Admin menu gives a users with administrator permission
access to all of the functions in UCSD’s very complex
Parking Permit System.
The Cashier menu is what appears to a user labeled
as a cashier and allows them limited access to the
system.
This is the main variety form from which the user
can access variety and lot details on any seed variety
and generate many different kinds of inventory status
reports.
From this form the user easily get the details on
any lot of seed and can see inventory that has been
received, sold, and shipped.
An interesting feature in the Emerald Order System
that the client requested is the changing of the background
color of the main order entry form to signal the status
of the order. The colors and statuses are user defined,
giving them maximum flexibility.
Here, the blue background color (as well as
the status box in the upper right) indicates that
this order has been shipped.
One of the most powerful features if Access is its
ability to interact with the other components of Office.
Called "Automation," it was used to great
advantage in the H & M Landing accounting application.
H & M books sport fishing charters for a number
of boats. To render an accounting of money owed to
and by the boats, the data in their Access mdb is exported
to this spreadsheet where the numbers can be adjusted.
All the code to generate the spreadsheet is in their
application. When the spreadsheet is closed, some of
the data from the spreadsheet is transferred back into
their database using custom developed code behind the
spreadsheet.
Because there is a great deal of data entry required
to record the time for each employee, the challenge
was to create an input form that could be run entirely
from the keyboard, without the use of a mouse. That
way, the data entry operator could enter all the data,
using almost exclusively their right hand, without
having to switch from keyboard to mouse. This speeds
entry and increases accuracy. It was accomplished by
carefully modeling the preferred sequence of data entry
operations and creating keyboard shortcuts (underlined
letters in the command buttons).
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