by Jonathan Halder | Jan 26, 2026 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Reports, MS Access VBA Coding
Today I was working on a file importer in Access again for my customer. This importer is using the technique of throwing an error as discussed in my previous message. My next task was to display a report if the file being imported raised the error and allow the...
by Jonathan Halder | Jan 23, 2026 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Reports, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding
I have a condition that to the application owners of an Access app is an error condition. If they try to import a parts file and the part pricing isn’t in the part pricing table already, it should stop the import and tell the user to add the pricing information...
by Jonathan Halder | Sep 24, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Reports, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD, Versioning
Today’s adventure is using CoPilot ChatGPT-5 to create a test and code based on a production database requirement. I’m using RubberDuckVBA to do unit testing. My initial prompt to start the conversation was: I am wanting to get help with creating tests for...
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 4, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Queries, MS Access Reports, MS Access VBA Coding
Don’t be afraid to refactor something if it’s getting too complicated. One of my customers often will have new ideas for reports or forms in the Access app that would really help him make his business better and his life easier. Many times these ideas will...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 13, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Reports, MS Access VBA Coding
I was doing more complex report work today in Access. I had need to determine if my sub-report on another sub-report was running as a subreport or not. There is the case in development where I’m just testing it, but when it is running as a sub-report it needs to...
