by Jonathan Halder | Apr 15, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access VBA Coding
Occasionally, I run into an issue where I am using some function within a BeforeUpdate event in an Access form which goes and updates the table with a SQL statement or query. This can produce some unwanted and messages about someone else editing the record and do you...
by Jonathan Halder | Apr 9, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access VBA Coding
I have been working on updating code for a customer form with a list box control storing a long list of files in various folders. There are filters on this form that can limit the files available to choose from. During my coding I noticed some performance problems....
by Jonathan Halder | Apr 8, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding
The other day I was coding an Access Form which displays a file list to choose files to import into the database. I had created the following components: An Access Form named: ImportForm A Class Module to handle a full list of files available for importing and...
by Jonathan Halder | Apr 5, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
It’s time to add a new test: ‘@TestMethod(“Initialize”) Private Sub WhenThereIsAForm_ThenItCanBeAssigned() Dim testFormAuditor As FormAuditor Set testFormAuditor = New FormAuditor testFormAuditor.Init Forms(“TestForm”) End Sub This...
by Jonathan Halder | Apr 2, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Reports, MS Access VBA Coding
One of my clients was occasionally getting a 2455 error in Access: Run-time error ‘2455’: You entered an expression that has an invalid reference to the property Form/Report. What was happening in this case was that the user had minimized Access and then...
by Jonathan Halder | Mar 29, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access Reports
I had generally used Subforms in Subform/Subreport controls as part of a standard form. I hadn’t even really thought too much about the fact that you could put report objects into a Subform/Subreport control. What pushed me in the direction of using a report in...
