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Basic Filtering with form text boxes
There's tons of good articles out there on this. Just a couple of notes, I had a customer asking me about filtering a subform in a datasheet view. They were using Ctrl-F to bring up the Access find box which they were lamenting was not set to partial content by...
SDOpenAI Access Add In – controlling context through selecting text.
I have been playing a little bit with the SDOpenAI Access Add In. In particular testing what context is being sent to the API in different situations. When your cursor has nothing selected, the general chat context will send the current line your cursor is on. When...
Preparing to use AI for programming
So, I am beginning again to move into a place where I will attempt to use some AI tools. What will this do for me? Here are some of the things I'm hoping it will help with: Allowing me to delegate simple coding tasks like functions and subroutines. Get recommendations...
Why I think hourly billing is nuts
Hourly billing uses hours to measure productivity and rates to commoditize your work. Presumption: For an Access developer (in general) they should get an average hourly rate of $X. If that Access developer wants to make more money he or she must either work more...
CDO email using a queue and emailing from one server
I have a couple clients now who had emails they wanted to either send out on a scheduled basis, like every Thursday, and/or when certain events occurred, like importing a certain type of file with certain types of part numbers, or a po is updated and causes a project...
What are the options for OpenAI access? (as of May 2025)
The SDOpenAI Access plugin uses the OpenAI API to provide "tokens" which means the question or prompts that you use, and return results (again measured in tokens) from the OpenAI system. You are charged by the number of millions of tokens you provide to the AI which...
Microsoft Access customer form logging strategy
I have a form a customer wanted to track changes in. Not all changes, just the "important" ones which is a business definition. No problem. So what was my approach? I built a class object that could store the original state of a recordset, then compare that with a...
A day in the life
I worked on copying some class objects and modifying behavior for them to allow the system to process different customers with different information. I am building the system based on exports from a database into a folder of CSV files. The user decides which files to...
The importance of being disciplined
When I began my business doing consulting, the freedom was great. I could do anything I wanted whenever I wanted. No one was there to look over my shoulder to tell me what to do. I knew I had to deliver things, but it seemed that was always a job for "Future Jon"....
Access VBA AI experiments – Full version of SDOpenAI Access Plugin installed
So far, I have the SDOpenAI Access Plugin reinstalled and purchased and entered in the license number. Good deal. I was able to create a function header with a descriptive line of Public Function GetDateXDaysPriorToToday(days As Single) As Date with a single for days...
The HCI Way™ – A Dive into Agile Project Management and Sales!
Hi folks, I got a few responses to my message yesterday, so here's a summarized version of my sales, delivery, and follow up strategies for you to take a look at. I'll tell you up front that I follow this very poorly, but it is what I intend to do from the finding and...
Working in small chunks – deliver faster
This is a tip from experience. It is always better to work in smaller chunks and deliver them as quickly as possible than it is to take weeks, months, or gulp... years to deliver the product. The longer it takes to deliver, the less the customer will remember what...
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