by Jonathan Halder | Nov 13, 2023 | MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD
Why do we want to use Test Driven Development? It is less error prone, producing better code which is more reliable and able to be verified from multiple paths. It allows us to express our intent in the form of a test. This forces us to create a better design. It...
by Jonathan Halder | Mar 7, 2022 | MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries
This error occurs because, drum-roll please…. The setting for this property is too long. So in this particular case, the developer was trying to create a long SQL string using multiple UNIONs with a complex query and trying to set this string to the RowSource...
by Jonathan Halder | Jun 18, 2021 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries
I recently experienced a frustrating issue that had me scratching my head for a while. I had a PO form with a Line Item subform and I could edit lines and when I tried to delete a line it was removed from the subform. BUT… If I closed and reopened the same PO...
by Jonathan Halder | Jun 4, 2021 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Reports
So I had a form that opened a report using a function in another module using DoCmd.OpenReport. This worked fine and the report popped open and appeared to be the active object on the screen. However, it was not. The behavior this caused was that when I clicked on the...
by Jonathan Halder | Jun 3, 2021 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms
Recently, a customer requested that all changes to their form be logged and added to the email that is sent to the project manager associated with the project assigned to the form. I found some code to walk a form during the BeforeUpdate routine and look for and...
