by Jonathan Halder | Jan 1, 2026 | Blogging
2026 has arrived! Wow, I never got used to it being 2025. So here we are at the beginning of a new year which many people view as a new start or the beginning of a new cycle. For me, it’s important to review my goals from the prior year. What did I accomplish?...
by Jonathan Halder | Dec 17, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. In this case, I am thinking about complex requirements customers have. The first stage in dealing with complex requirements like: “I want main line items on my PO with subline items related to each of those main...
by Jonathan Halder | Dec 16, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding
Kudos to Maria Barnes and her code to utilize Microsoft Graph. Here is her open source project on github.com: VBA-MicrosoftGraph/README.md at master · mbarnesatbbs/VBA-MicrosoftGraph · GitHub This allowed me (along with her instructions and some help from CoPilot) to...
by Jonathan Halder | Dec 15, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding
Today I was working with a customer to define the outcome needed for my work on their application. The customer wanted a specific field to be updated and copied to be the same value as other products that are conceptualy the same. The form is pretty open as to how...
by Jonathan Halder | Nov 3, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features
Ok, been a while since I last posted. This quarter I was really trying to revamp my processes to focus on getting billable stuff done. So my writing took a bit of a back seat while I tried to figure it out. Last week and this week I had 2 different clients that I had...
by Jonathan Halder | Oct 16, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding
Today I spent an hour working with CoPilot on some Excel VBA code to do a custom sort that is not normally possible with the normal sorting functions, and import data from a CSV file with a system dialog to display the default choice, but allow changing it. I was...
