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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
by Jonathan Halder | May 16, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding
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...
