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...
by Jonathan Halder | Nov 30, 2020 | MS Access, MS Access Features, MS Access Forms
As you mention, you could determine the available screen space. You are going to have a somewhat complex job because you will have to set the top and left of every visible control on the screen. That is one way of doing it that will work. The other way...
