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Microsoft Access with multiple users

by Jonathan Halder | Jun 16, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding

This is an entire planet to explore in and of itself. There are multiple layers of sharing when it comes to creating Access databases and applications with multiple users. Although fraught with land mines, users can use the same Access front end at the same time. This...

Manual test driven development

by Jonathan Halder | Jun 12, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD

Ok, so this really doesn’t qualify as test driven development because a key of that discipline is to automate your tests. That means you actually would have a set of functions that would automatically test various things as you create them and you leave those...

Two Form Filtering strategies

by Jonathan Halder | Jun 5, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access VBA Coding

Today I updated a form and added a new filter textbox to it to allow the customer to specify part of a part number and filter a list of CSV files that contain that part number. It’s actually already processed these files and the data for all part numbers is in a...

Sometimes one makes dumb mistakes :P

by Jonathan Halder | Jun 2, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding

What did I do today? I have a complex order form I built according to customer specs. They have several different scenarios and ways in which they can open an order in the form and I did not build the form so that it is capable of opening multiple orders at once. In...

Form filtering using unbound text boxes continued

by Jonathan Halder | May 30, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding

I started using the SDOpenAI plugin to write a class that could take multiple form control input values and create a string for a filter output for a form. It did a simple and respectable job in accomplishing my task, but as I started implementing it, I started...

Basic Filtering with form text boxes

by Jonathan Halder | May 29, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding

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...
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