by Jonathan Halder | Apr 5, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
It’s time to add a new test: ‘@TestMethod(“Initialize”) Private Sub WhenThereIsAForm_ThenItCanBeAssigned() Dim testFormAuditor As FormAuditor Set testFormAuditor = New FormAuditor testFormAuditor.Init Forms(“TestForm”) End Sub This...
by Jonathan Halder | Apr 2, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Reports, MS Access VBA Coding
One of my clients was occasionally getting a 2455 error in Access: Run-time error ‘2455’: You entered an expression that has an invalid reference to the property Form/Report. What was happening in this case was that the user had minimized Access and then...
by Jonathan Halder | Mar 29, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access Reports
I had generally used Subforms in Subform/Subreport controls as part of a standard form. I hadn’t even really thought too much about the fact that you could put report objects into a Subform/Subreport control. What pushed me in the direction of using a report in...
by Jonathan Halder | Mar 28, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Reports, MS Access VBA Coding
Sounds intriguing, doesn’t it? So what do I mean by running Access headless? I am referring to the term headless as it refers to running a machine without user intervention as an automated process. For example, I have some reports that get emailed out at certain...
by Jonathan Halder | Mar 27, 2024 | MS Access, MS Access Queries, MS Access VBA Coding
Me: Write a humorous limerick about ChatGPT failing to do what is expected. ChatGPT: There once was a bot named ChatGPT, Whose answers could often betray. Asked for a rhyme, it stuttered in time, And left folks in quite the disarray. It pondered and whirred with great...
