Category: Access 2010

  • Avoid error “2427 You entered an expression that has no value” when passing a parameter to a form

    To avoid getting an error when passing a variable to a form, using If Not against the EOF (I believe means End of File) property. If Not Me.Recordset.EOF And Not Me.Recordset.EOF Then Dim stDocName As String Dim stLinkCriteria As String stDocName = “someform” stLinkCriteria = “[recordnumber]=” & Me.[recordnumber] DoCmd.OpenForm stDocName, , , stLinkCriteria Else MsgBox…

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  • Microsoft Access 2010 loader

    Credits (As what I consider the hard stuff was actually done by other people): TheSmileyCoder for the solid awesome little VBS File, this basically gets around the limitation of not actually getting Access to load another Access Database. At the time I only ever needed one modification (A rarely issue affected two P4 machines with…

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  • Why use ACCDE and then ACCDR Access Front Ends

    Nearly every single Microsoft Access “database” I use has a proper database attached instead of using the internal Jet Engine, this means data is not actually stored in the Access “database” and I therefore call them Access Frontends. Compiling your Access front ends to ACCDE provides a compiled copy of your Access Front End. I…

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