by Jonathan Halder | Sep 8, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Reports, MS Access VBA Coding
Subform navigation systems on a form can get a little tricky at times. I am currently working on a Subform / Subreport control on a form that lists all the shipment records for a single job in order of the shipping date and time. Because the customer wanted a numeric...
by Jonathan Halder | Sep 3, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
Ever wonder what a developer running a sole proprietorship does? Here’s a little snapshot of my life this week. This week i’ve been up to a couple of things: I’ve updated a client to provide a button to their navigation to open a particular query....
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 22, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding
Today I was debugging Access and was working in some complex code that iterated over a large number of records. I wanted to stop at a particular record and run through it step by step. The record could be identified by using the RS variable which represented a DAO...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 21, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
I decided to do some tests today, but didn’t even get to writing any yet. The issue was that I had a function tied to a button click event event inside a form which referenced various controls on the form. Normally, it’s easy to refactor this by simply...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 18, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding
Do you know what happens if you are in an Access text box and press Ctrl-A? You might expect all the text in it to be selected like a text box on a web page or in a Word document. But it doesn’t. If you are in a text box on a form in the normal single form view...
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...
