by Steven Halder | Dec 5, 2022 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding
The Access Web Browser Control is not a Web Browser Object, but does contain one. To access the internal workings of the control with VBA code, it is most convenient to dimension and use variables as follows, where the name of the control is “MyWebBrowserControl”: DIM...
by Steven Halder | Dec 5, 2022 | MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access VBA Coding
Case Study The issueA form contained several combo boxes linked to tables, sub-forms, and a delete button intended to delete the current record. The client noticed while deleting records that occasionally one of the combo box linked records would get...
by Steven Halder | Jan 31, 2022 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access VBA Coding
So you’re updating some VBA code you wrote a while back… Now what is the Error Processing section doing? What do those Error Numbers mean? I shoulda’ written some comments! Well you can just look up each of those error descriptions quickly by using...
by Steven Halder | Jan 27, 2022 | MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding
So your Access application crashed and user feedback is not specific enough to diagnose the problem? It sure would be nice if your application VBA code could send you an email with all the error details! Well, The Smiley Coder has written and published just such a...
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...
