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  Tuesday, December 29, 2009 – Permalink –

Close Forms

Auto Shutdown

Here's how to close a form after it’s used:

  1. Open the first form in Design view.
  2. Double-click the Form Properties button.
  3. Click on the Event tab.
  4. Click in the On Deactivate text box.
  5. Select Event Procedure.
  6. Click the Build button.
  7. At the prompt, enter: Me.TimerInterval =1.
    (Try something like 30000 milliseconds)
  8. Press [Alt][Q].
  9. In the Form Properties window, click in the On Timer property text box.
  10. Select Event Procedure.
  11. Click the Build button.
  12. At the prompt, enter: DoCmd.Close.
  13. Press [Alt][Q].
  14. Save the form.

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  Thursday, December 24, 2009 – Permalink –

List Fields in Access Tables

Bit o' code


When viewing a table that has many fields in Design view, you have to scroll up and down to review the field names.

This can be tiresome when you're referring to them constantly, and particularly when you're working with several tables.

The following code produces a field listing for a given table. This can then be copied to Notepad and printed for easy reference.

Enter the code into a module, substituting your table's name where appropriate.

Open the Debug/Immediate window, type ListFields,

Press Enter to produce the listing.
Sub ListFields()
Dim dbs As DATABASE
Dim dbfield As Field
Dim tdf As TableDef

Set dbs = CurrentDb
Set tdf = dbs.TableDefs!NAMEOFYOURTABLE

Debug.Print ""
Debug.Print "Name of table: "; tdf.Name
Debug.Print ""

For Each dbfield In tdf.Fields
Debug.Print dbfield.Name
Next dbfield
End Sub




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  Thursday, December 17, 2009 – Permalink –

Combo Box Queries

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Parameter queries add flexibility to filtering records in a database. To make it easy, take a look at this approach from Martin Green's Office Tips site:

Drop down box in a Parameter Query

  1. Build a dialog box with as many combo boxes as you need.
  2. Design a query to read its criteria from the information on the dialog box.
  3. Create a macro or visual basic procedure to tell them both what to do.
Also:
Base Combo Box on Parameter Query to Filter Values




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  Friday, December 11, 2009 – Permalink –

Hungarian Notation

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This tip is useful in a number of applications.

When you name an object, include a prefix that identifies the type of object.

When naming a table for Customers, use "tblCustomers" .
You could also have a form for customers. It would be "frmCustomers" .


It's called Hungarian notation because with the prefix, it does not look like an English word.

Dr. Charles Simonyi developed the convention at Microsoft, and he is from Hungary.

He wrote an article on Hungarian notation for MSDN, the Microsoft Developer's Network.

Hungarian notation


Here are some prefixes:
  • tbl- Table
  • qry- Query
  • frm- Form
  • rpt- Report




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