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I agree. This limitation really needs to be lifted.
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62 votes5 comments · Access (Desktop Application) » External Data Connectivity · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →Anders Ebro (TheSmileyCoder)
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I'm not sure. Are you asking for a way to connect your Access desktop app to a PA or flow webservice? Or for a way to connect your Power App to a desktop database file?
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19 votesAnders Ebro (TheSmileyCoder)
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You can create an AutoKeys macro that listens for F1, and then provides your custom message instead of the Access help. Works like a charm
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4 votesAnders Ebro (TheSmileyCoder)
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This is an ODBC driver issue, not limited to Access, in other words it is the ODBC driver using Identity instead of Scope_identity.
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As part of us designing on a new Linked Table Manager dialog, we are incorporating related suggestions and requests made in UserVoice and other forums.
Stay tuned.Anders Ebro (TheSmileyCoder)
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Looking forward to it!
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0 votesAnders Ebro (TheSmileyCoder)
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Split returns an array, it doesn't make sense to me, to expect the query to be able to handle an array.
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1 voteAnders Ebro (TheSmileyCoder)
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If you open a new Access instance, you can open a new access database with that instance.
Also if you open a new database from e.g. the explorer window it will also open a new window.
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While I might argue that it could be nice to OPTIONALLY turn of whether a user can interfere with it, I've done both table and querie modifications "on-the-fly" in access compiled files running code. I would hate to see that ability go away.
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20 votesAnders Ebro (TheSmileyCoder)
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Ah sorry. I use that button to default to use event code, but not, it doesn't use the wizard to create the code for me. When I press the button (in 2010) it takes me to the code window, instead of opening the macro window.
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Your in luck!
This feature is already there. I can tell you where to find it in Access 2010.
Click File
Click Options
Select Object Designers
Scroll down a bit to Form/Report Design view
Check the box "Always Use Event Procedures"Hope that helps
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5 votesAnders Ebro (TheSmileyCoder)
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OK, I see your point more clearly now.
I still choose to disagree. I think its a good way of discovering new items being added. Yes, it can also be really annoying, e.g. when forms started to open in layout view as default. I am not arguing that. However they DID leave in the old design view, and the choice to have windowed forms.But in most cases it make sense (to me anyways), to change the default to the new feature. If they hadn't changed the default form design, I would probably still be making forms with the Access 2000 look.
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I don't write this just for arguments sake, but more to give another perspective
I LOVE tabbed documents. Use it all the time. And you have the option of turning it off. I believe that existing databases brought forward are windowed (i.e. original style) by default.
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11 votes4 comments · Access (Desktop Application) » External Data Connectivity · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →Anders Ebro (TheSmileyCoder)
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Hi John.
Not commonly known, there is a Errors collection. Now I only know of one case where the Errors collection contains more than 1 error, and that is for ODBC errors. So my error handler takes special care of that situtation with the below code:
'Special case for ODBC errors.
If Err.Number = 3146 Then
Dim i As Integer
For i = 0 To Errors.Count - 1
strErrDescription = strErrDescription & vbNewLine & "ODBC:" & Errors(i).Number & " - " & Errors(i).Description
Next
End IfThat usually gives enough information to track down the underlying issue just fine.
I hope that helps.
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6 votesAnders Ebro (TheSmileyCoder)
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Oh, and it would also be lovely to specify the language to use, as well as whether it should run silently. Some times I might want simply check if there are spelling mistakes before presenting the spell check dialog. And if the spellchecker runs, without finding any errors might also be a scenario in which I would not want to show a "No spelling errors found" messagebox.
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If SpellCheck(Me.TextBoxName,"English US",vbSilent)>0 Then
Msgbox "Spelling errors found, Please correct and try again"
SpellCheck Me.TextBoxName,"English US"
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This has been one of the really strong features of access, that when you do imports, you get the import errors table, and when you try to copy-paste records, you get a paste error table.
This works soooo much better than when you try to do imports through e.g. SSMS, and just get a simple message saying "the import has failed".
It would be nice if this feature could be extended to action querys.