by Jonathan Halder | Aug 12, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding
I watched half of a new Access Users Group video on the tree view control by Pete Poppe which I link to at the bottom of this message. I learned something new. The last time I used the Treeview control I never ended up implementing it in a customer’s project...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 9, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding
The resounding answer to this is “Yes”. BUT – what if you can’t seem to make it work? There are actually a number of ways to monetize your Access skills: Offering your services as an Access Application developer to create, modify, and/or...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 8, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding
I was working with a friend yesterday and he was showing me how he was showing a bound dropdown list on a combo box on a bound form. He was using a UNION query and VBA to update the combo box RowSource value each time to include another row in the dropdown if the...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 7, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding
Don’t get me wrong. Access VBA can perform very well in most situations. There have been a few times where I’ve needed to improve the speed of some function I was using and Access just took too long. One of those is hashing values for files. There is a...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 6, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Queries, MS Access VBA Coding
Access Error (3155) ODBC: “Query timeout expired”. It happened when trying to insert a new record into a linked table called “order” I’m using ODBC driver 17 in this case and it happened twice. Not sure if the user tried to do it twice or...
by Jonathan Halder | Jul 30, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding
Yesterday, I was talking about the BeforeUpdate form event and BeforeUpdate Access control event as ways I was looking at triggering a validation function and then canceling the event so the update would not occur. A reader wrote in to mention usage of the Change...
