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Anders Ebro (TheSmileyCoder)

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  1. Allow formatting of record selector

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    0 comments  ·  Access (Desktop Application) » Forms  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Anders Ebro (TheSmileyCoder) shared this idea  · 

  2. Allow custom controls and a gallery

    24 votes
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    1 comment  ·  Access (Desktop Application) » Forms  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Anders Ebro (TheSmileyCoder) supported this idea  · 

  3. Auto refresh linked tables, when front-end file moved

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    1 comment  ·  Access (Desktop Application) » Automating Tasks  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Anders Ebro (TheSmileyCoder) commented  · 

    I suggest you try looking at the relinker tool which can be found on Armen Stein (MVPs) website:
    https://www.jstreettech.com/downloads.aspx
    It should solve your needs quite elegantly.

  4. Prevent tables & queries being copied in ACCDE files

    16 votes
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    2 comments  ·  Access (Desktop Application)  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Anders Ebro (TheSmileyCoder) commented  · 

    But there are many legitimate uses for your application to use VBA to import/export data. You would also be blocking all of these legitimate uses.

    If you truly require that degree of security, you should use SQL server as a backend, and apply security there.

  5. Allow theme colors in conditional formatting

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    0 comments  ·  Access (Desktop Application) » Forms  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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  6. Action Query: List specific records/columns that violate index or validation

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    2 comments  ·  Access (Desktop Application) » Queries  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Anders Ebro (TheSmileyCoder) commented  · 

    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.

  7. Expand the maximum Form width

    99 votes
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    10 comments  ·  Access (Desktop Application)  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Anders Ebro (TheSmileyCoder) supported this idea  · 
    Anders Ebro (TheSmileyCoder) commented  · 

    I agree. This limitation really needs to be lifted.

  8. New Property, Filter for Combo Box

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    6 comments  ·  Access (Desktop Application)  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Anders Ebro (TheSmileyCoder) supported this idea  · 

  9. Provide a MS-Access connector to PowerApps and Flow

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    6 comments  ·  Access (Desktop Application) » External Data Connectivity  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Anders Ebro (TheSmileyCoder) commented  · 

    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?

  10. Ribbon: suppress 'Press F1 for add-in Help'

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    2 comments  ·  Access (Desktop Application)  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Anders Ebro (TheSmileyCoder) commented  · 

    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

  11. Leave right-click menu searching options available in runtime

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    0 comments  ·  Access (Desktop Application) » Runtime  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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  12. Expose method to get row under cursor

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    0 comments  ·  Access (Desktop Application) » Forms  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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  13. Use scope_identity() to refresh linked SQL-Server tables or views

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    2 comments  ·  Access (Desktop Application)  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Anders Ebro (TheSmileyCoder) commented  · 

    This is an ODBC driver issue, not limited to Access, in other words it is the ODBC driver using Identity instead of Scope_identity.

  14. Enable the use of functions such as Split directly queries

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    1 comment  ·  Access (Desktop Application)  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Anders Ebro (TheSmileyCoder) commented  · 

    Split returns an array, it doesn't make sense to me, to expect the query to be able to handle an array.

  15. Open Database from within a Database

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    1 comment  ·  Access (Desktop Application)  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Anders Ebro (TheSmileyCoder) commented  · 

    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.

  16. bring it into conformance with high DPI design standards

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    Planned  ·  5 comments  ·  Access (Desktop Application) » Other  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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  17. accde should also remove the ablity to modify tables and queries

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    5 comments  ·  Access (Desktop Application) » Local Data  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Anders Ebro (TheSmileyCoder) commented  · 

    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.

  18. Macroes vs VBA in Button Wizard

    25 votes
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    10 comments  ·  Access (Desktop Application) » Forms  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Anders Ebro (TheSmileyCoder) commented  · 

    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.

    Anders Ebro (TheSmileyCoder) commented  · 

    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

    Anders Ebro // TheSmileyCoder
    Access MVP
    www.TheSmileyCoder.com

  19. Global practice of changing defaults to New and "Improved" features

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    7 comments  ·  Access (Desktop Application)  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Anders Ebro (TheSmileyCoder) commented  · 

    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.

    I

    Anders Ebro (TheSmileyCoder) commented  · 

    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.

  20. Report View: Hide empty subreport

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