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Gotcha! You thought you deleted a subform record but…

Gotcha! You thought you deleted a subform record but…

by Jonathan Halder | Jun 18, 2021 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries

I recently experienced a frustrating issue that had me scratching my head for a while. I had a PO form with a Line Item subform and I could edit lines and when I tried to delete a line it was removed from the subform. BUT… If I closed and reopened the same PO...
Print button on Ribbon prints form instead of report

Print button on Ribbon prints form instead of report

by Jonathan Halder | Jun 4, 2021 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Reports

So I had a form that opened a report using a function in another module using DoCmd.OpenReport. This worked fine and the report popped open and appeared to be the active object on the screen. However, it was not. The behavior this caused was that when I clicked on the...
Friendly Form Auditing in Microsoft Access

Friendly Form Auditing in Microsoft Access

by Jonathan Halder | Jun 3, 2021 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms

Recently, a customer requested that all changes to their form be logged and added to the email that is sent to the project manager associated with the project assigned to the form.  I found some code to walk a form during the BeforeUpdate routine and look for and...

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