I am building a MS Access front-end "application" which searches multiple other MS Access Databases.
The "secondary" database has a form with a couple of text boxes, in which the user enters search parameters, a command button that executes a query, and a ListBox into which the returned values are populated
For reasons of IT bureaucracy I am not able to modify the secondary databases.
I have got code working that opens the secondary database as an Access.Application object, and populates all of the fields on the form. I have also got code working that reads the output of the searches (from a ListBox control).
What I don't have is any working solution to the problem of clicking on the command button. If I could modify the "secondary" database then I would simply change the Click event sub to Public Cmd_Click() rather than Private Cmd_Click(), however I don't have that luxury.
I have tried using:
Cmd.SetFocus
Sendkeys("{Enter}")
and also
Cmd.SetFocus
Sendkeys(" ")
Cmd.SetFocus
Sendkeys("~")
Neither of these trigger the click event
Can anyone suggest a way of triggering a click event remotely?
I am using Access 2010
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I'm completely new to MS Access but not to databases. I have a form that is meant to open another form through a button and users are to add records to a target table through said form. The main menu fails to open my secondary form saying "recordset is not updatable". The table that is to receive the records is editable and I can go into it and manually add records so this doesn't seem to be the problem. If I click out of the error through the error handler menu I'm taken to the form that I expected to open, but it is read only-- I can't see it's properties sheet, design view, or even change the view at all. I looked at the VBA code on the main menu and it does use doCmd.OpenForm "myForm", , , , , ,"New"
Any pointers would be really appreciated.
Right click your form and click design view. Add a button, click Cancel and name the button appropriately. Than, right-click the button and click Build Event > Code Builder > OK. Copy/paste the code below into the button click event.
Private Sub Command0_Click()
DoCmd.OpenForm "name_of_your_form"
End Sub
That should be all you need to do. Sometimes I have seen Access do some really weird stuff. If the steps I outlined here don't work, try doing a Compact and Repair to reset everything in your DB, and then add the button.
I split a database and created a search form in the front end. It works there, but when I copy the front end, the search form doesn't work there
The form is a continuous form and has my table as a datasource. There are a number of bound fields in the detail section and a number of unbound fields in the form header. On the click of the search button, I use vba to build a sql select string and use Me.RecordSource = strSQL. Again this works in my original front end db. After realizing it doesn't work in a copy, I have tried copying and pasting the form from one front end to another, export/import, recreating it, hard coding a select, trying to display a message box on the click...nothing seems to work on the button click (tried double click too). If I build a button with the wizard, it will work, but they are using built in macros.
Any thoughts? Thank you in advance.
If no code seems to run in your new database (including MsgBox), then it is quite likely that the new database is in a folder that Access doesn't recognize as "trustworthy" and has therefore turned off code running.
Check that the folder where the database is currently located is allowed to run code, and if not add the folder:
File|Options|Trust Center|Trust Center Settings|Trusted Locations
Regards,
I have an Access 2007 form which contains a combo box with the following Rowsource:
SELECT qryProjectsIHaveAccessTo.projID, qryProjectsIHaveAccessTo.projName
FROM qryProjectsIHaveAccessTo
WHERE (((qryProjectsIHaveAccessTo.projSupportTracker)=False));
The query qryProjectsIHaveAccessTo uses a user-defined function as the criteria for one of the columns. This function detects if a Startup routine has been run, and if not runs it.
The problem I have is this: if I SHIFT+open the database and open the form in DESIGN mode, for some reason the user-defined function starts running. This then causes errors as the Startup routine it calls tries to open a form (presumably Access cannot open a form while it is in the process of opening another form in Design mode) and sometimes I am not able to CTRL+BREAK out of it.
The same thing happens when I go to save the form in Design mode.
If I remove the RowSource string from the combo box, this no longer happens. But why would a function which is called in a query included in a control RowSource get fired when the form opens in Design Mode?
Any ideas anyone? Thanks for reading!
When you open a form in design view, Access validates that the form record source is still there, and that all the query fields that are bound to form controls are still there.
If some of these checks fail, Access shows the small green triangle on the bound controls with problems.
While doing this check, it runs the UDF in the query.
As was said in the comments, calling a startup function does very much not belong into UDFs that are called from a query. Put it into a function that is called by an AutoExec macro.
I have very strange problem I am working with MS access 2013 a application called "failure Analysis system" through which user can enter a different data for different system.
I have cread a main form to enter a data lets say "Tb_Mainform" and in this Mainform I have also one subform called "tb_subform". whenever user change one combox in Mainform the subform is updated using
Me.tb_suform.form.recordsoure = query
Me.tb_subform.requery
until now everything is gud subform is also updated. when i click on subform to navigate, it updated the table with half unfilled data.
How can i prevent this. I am opening the main form by using
DoCmd.OpenForm "tb_Mainform", WindowMode:=acDialog, DataMode:=acFormAdd, OpenArgs:=C_ID
PS: Main form and subform using the same database table.
Below is the link with the same problem as mine. it is 6 year old post but i think after that something has to be change in Access until now.
How do I prevent clicks on a subform causing updates on the main form
I have created an unbound form. It contain subforom where I am saving the records manually in vba.
comment by ChrisPadgham helped me a lot
I'm new to Microsoft Access and I'm having a trouble implementing something.
Basically, I have a form with a combo box, some text boxes, and a command button.
What I want to do is have the user select a record from the combo box, which then populates the textboxes (I've already managed to do this). Once the data has loaded into the textboxes, I want the user to be able to edit the info in the textboxes, then press the command button so that it updates that record in the table.
This looks like the same odd form where you had trouble with delete. It sounds like you are working from the wrong end. Create a form based on a table or query, then add a combobox to find records on the form based on the selection. There are wizards to guide you through. You will then have a standard Access form where everything works as expected. When textboxes are changed, the data will be updated as soon as you move to another record, there is no need for save, it is the default for Access.
If you wish to use non-standard unbound controls, you will need to update with SQL or stored queries.