by Jonathan Halder | Sep 11, 2020 | MS Access
Thanks Michael, Yes, that is good to experiment with. I have found that many modern offices have a decent enough wireless connection with a router wired into their local network that you can easily use a wireless front end to connect to a back end on a...
by Jonathan Halder | Sep 7, 2020 | MS Access Forms
Fetch! Let’s say you want to set a text control to a date allowing them to use either a date picker or the keyboard to enter the date using a mask. Or you may need a dialog box to get a password from a user or a piece of information needed for a report, and you...
by Jonathan Halder | Aug 27, 2020 | MS Access Features
Start by creating a blank Access file anywhere (this will be your library). The only restriction here is that it should be accessible as a file either on the same computer or a shared drive of another computer on the same network as the Access app that will reference...
by Jonathan Halder | Jul 6, 2020 | MS Access Forms
Hi Charles, Usually when the item isn’t displaying in the dropdown it has to do with either the display properties of the combo box or the value attached to the combo box is not a value in the row source. A couple of things to check: 1. The display columns...
by Jonathan Halder | Jun 19, 2020 | MS Access Queries, MS Access Tables
A common database issue in the world is the need to store lists of related items. This might be a Bill of Material (or BOM) for a business application to describe all the parts and assemblies needed to ship a particular product, or it might be something like meal...
