English version included below. Buen día a todos. El capítulo de Latinoamérica en Access User Groups se reactiva para la comunidad de desarrolladores de MS Access de habla hispana en la región latinoamericana. La reanudación se llevará a cabo el día 25 de abril, a las 9:00 pm, Ciudad de México, bajo el título "Manipular JSON en Access". El presentador de este tema seré yo mismo. Como desarrollador de aplicaciones en ambos medios, Access y Web, abordaré cómo llevar a cabo... Read more ..read more

I need to have a user select a file for further operations using a normal dialog. I tried this code, but nothing happens, not even an error. Code:Copy to clipboard Dim FileName As String Dim FD As FileDialog Set FD = Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFilePicker) FileName = FD.InitialFileName I have the Microsoft Office 16.0 object library in references. Is there a better way to do this ..read more

I have created a ms access database for my friend. The login form when I open in my system opens with center position but when I open the same DB in my friends pc the login form opens upper left position. Even it is set auto center. I tried much to solve this problem but I don't succeed. Please give the solution for this. Thanks in advance ..read more

Hello all, My form opens in maximize even there is no maximize command on open/current/load. How to avoid this to happen.. Thank you ..read more

Hi All My DB has MANY bit fields. Whenever I use the form wizard to create a form, it creates a text box for each field. Is there a preferences setting (or script) that I can use to change all the text boxes (for bit fields) to CHECK boxes. Thanks ..read more

Continuing saga of my horse racing project. I am using Access 2010 and Excel 2010. I have attached a small database with a table and 2 queries. 'Table1' has the following fields: MtgDate, Race, Margin (in metres), Rate For each Race I want to get the average Rate for Top 6 Horses that finish within 'x' metres of the winner (including the winner) For different Meetings and Race types, 'x' can vary between 4m and 7.5m Using Query01 I can get the Top 6 (or less) Horses that finish within 'x'... Read more ..read more

My current project requires some user defined colors to be entered into the form. The form allows for the generation of custom reports. These colors adjust a Reports title font and some other controls as well. The problem that I need to solve is how to take any of those colors entered and calculate the lightest shade that can be produced for that given color. This calculated value will be used to set the back color of the RptTitle control on the report based on the entered color for the... Read more ..read more

i would like to start making my database a little more prettier especially in the customers table. i want to make the first letter of every name etc uppercase. my staff and me are quite inconsistant so to make it easier to read and present a little better i want the formating to all be the same(apart from notes etc). does anyone know how to do this. sorry if this has already been asked and answered but the term could be so general i would have had to look at possibly 100's of threads to... Read more ..read more

Hi All Tearing my hair out with this one. My access db front end is based around a navigation form and on lots of the hosted subforms there are command buttons that trigger code that does "lots of stuff" then navigates to a different form. On many of those forms the "lots of stuff" includes using DoCmd.OutputTo to save reports to PDF, and have never encountered any problems. Today I'm working on one of the forms and have inserted a DoCmd.OutputTo part way through the "lots of stuff" and the... Read more ..read more

Hi All, I have a weird conundrum that I have never encountered before. I am hopng that one of you may have some experience with this and what your solution was. I have a client that has upgraded several Computers and M365 Office to 64-bit. They have a legacy application that began in Access 2003 and is heavily laden with ActiveX Controls, i.e. Flex Grid, Calendar, and others purchased from a 3rd party. The conundrum is I am unable to delete the ActiveX Controls from the physically or... Read more ..read more