by Jonathan Halder | Mar 27, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access Reports, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
Did you know that you can drag and drop items from the navigation pane in one Access database to another Access database? I used this feature today as I needed to copy a somewhat complex form to display a series of entries in a linked table in both databases filtered...
by Jonathan Halder | Mar 24, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access VBA Coding
Today, for my customer’s app, I wrote some VBA code in an after update routine of a textbox to strip out non-numeric characters and reformat them into a phone number format the customer wanted. Private Sub employee_phone_number_AfterUpdate() If...
by Jonathan Halder | Mar 13, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Queries, MS Access VBA Coding
If you want to get the number of records that were updated, inserted, or deleted by your query, you would read the RecordsAffected property on the object that executed your query after it had run. ‘Copied from a normal module ‘We set a reference to the...
by Jonathan Halder | Feb 24, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Queries, MS Access VBA Coding
Today one of my customers ran into a problem with my coding of a system meant to group related lines together on a purchase order. There are estimating details that contain an affiliation number for grouping lines together. They are unique per phase number. These need...
by Jonathan Halder | Feb 13, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
In today’s adventure, I discovered what I thought was a simple change was not so simple. The system I’m working on has jobs and each job has POs written as part of doing the job. Each PO is delivered to an address which is USUALLY the job address, but not...
by Jonathan Halder | Feb 11, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Queries, MS Access Reports, MS Access VBA Coding
There is no way to directly place Passthrough SQL into a Report RecordSource property. Reports want DAO recordsources and in some cases, need a table object to work off of. However, if you are using SQL server and want to utilize a SQL view, you can link it as a table...
