My question seems to be very silly, but I haven't found solution myself.
Is there a way to simply paste a macro (example) from Stack Overflow in Access? Or, alternatively, paste it from Access to Stack Overflow?
I know, it is very easy in Word and Excel. But I can't understand how to do it in Access.
Basic questions certainly deserve asking, if they're not duplicates.
There are a couple of different cases:
Add VBA on a form event (this case)
Open up the form in design view
Identify the control you want to add the macro to (the part before the _ is the control name, the part after the _ is the event name, so the KeyDown event on the form control.
Identify the event you want to add code to on the event pane
Press the builder ... thing
Choose Code Builder and press OK.
You will see some event code has already been added. Replace that with the copy-pasted code.
Add VBA (function or sub) outside of a form (triggered elsewhere, such as a user-defined function for use in queries)
Open up the VBA editor by hitting Alt + F11
Choose Insert -> Module in the top bar
Paste the code
Paste a normal, non-VBA macro using AXL
Create a macro on the create tab on the ribbon
Select the body of the macro by clicking the blank space inside it (not the area where you can create new controls)
Hit Ctrl + V to paste
Paste an Access data macro using AXL
Open the table you want to add the data macro to in design view.
In the ribbon, click Create data macros, choose and click the right event. You can identify the event by looking at the event property of the datamacro tag, for example <DataMacro Event="AfterInsert"> = On After Insert
Select the body of the macro by clicking the blank space inside it (not the area where you can create new controls)
Hit Ctrl + V to paste
Note that questions about non-VBA macros rarely contain the AXL necessary to paste it. Pasting AXL is somewhat contra-intuitive, as you don't paste it in a textbox and the result isn't text.
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In one of my forms in my Access Database I have a button with a Macro Event that opens another form where two fields match. However, whenever I open my Database this button with the Macro Event doesn't work until I've opened the VBA Editor. After I've opened the VBA Editor and refreshed the form it works just fine.
Also, the Conditional Formatting that I've attached to one of my text boxes on this form (same form as button with Macro Event) doesn't work unless the VBA Editor is open either..
Any thoughts?
Just to clarify, after the VBA editor is closed the code works as well, it seems as if it just needs that initial opening. I have other VBA and Macro events that work without the VBA editor needing to be opened, like I said it’s just that conditional formatting and that specific macro event on my button. When I’m back at work on Monday I’ll provide more details when it comes to the code and etc.
Solved: So the code must have disabled, although there was no yellow bar indicating this was the case. I made a copy of my database to troubleshoot and when I opened the my new copy it asked me to enable code and now everything works fine.
Strange. I suggest you create an AUTOEXEC macro and run a function with something simple like just showing a message box in VBA. With that you can verify if your code is the problem or something else.
I have a MS Access form that is bound to a query in the database. I added a textbox and added a row source to a Hyperlink datafield in the query. When I open the form, it won't allow me to drop a file into the textbox.
Here's the deal. When I follow this EXACT same process on a new form, it works perfectly. That is, I open a blank form and I bind the form to some new query, let's say qryNewIdeas. Then on the blank form i add a textbox, let's say Text0. Then, when I select Text0, I go to the data tab - row source and choose the dropdown arrow to select the hyperlink field, lets say NewIdeasAddress. I click SAVE and open the form. It works PERFECTLY.
BUT, when I repeat this on an existing form (the one where I need the thing to actually work), it does nothing. It adds and changes the textbox to a hyperlink box (I note this because of the blue underlined word that appears in the box). But it won't allow me to drop files to this location.
I tried commenting out ALL of my VBA code to try to make sure that something wasn't hindering it (say in an OnLoad event) AND I've checked all of the form and control box properties and they seem to be the same in both the existing form and the test form.
I can't determine why it works on one form and not the other; Solution needed.
If you have access to "the data tab - row source ..", you are in design view.
When you later open the form, you are in form view, a completely different animal which specifically prohibits design changes.
It sounds like you will have to rethink your concept.
EDIT: For clarification, I'm talking in the below post about tabbed document browsing, not a Tab Control. However, if you're looking for roughly the same problem but regarding a Tab Control, Gord Thompson's answer is correct. Two answers for the price of one!
I've got an Access 2007 database that uses tabbed documents. I need to run some VBA code every time a user selects the form called "Reports", either via opening it or clicking on its tab if it's already open.
I could achieve much the same thing by closing it each time it's used and running the code on an OnLoad event, but ideally I'd like to keep it open so that users can keep the settings of the various drop down boxes, radio boxes etc that they've already set on "Reports".
I was hoping for an event that could run code on tab reselection, but neither of my guesses (OnCurrent and GotFocus) seem to work (OnCurrent works only when the form is opened, like OnLoad would).
Any ideas greatly appreciated - can't find what I'm looking for on Google, though I suspect that's because I don't know exactly what I'm looking for.
The .Value property of a TabControl returns the index (zero-based) of the current page. So, if I have a TabControl named TabCtl14 that contains two pages, FirstPage and SecondPage, then the code...
Private Sub TabCtl14_Click()
If Me.TabCtl14.Value = 1 Then
MsgBox "SecondPage was clicked."
End If
End Sub
...displays the MsgBox whenever I click the "SecondPage" tab in the TabControl.
Have found the answer I was looking for. It's the OnActivate event.
I'm trying to write some code for my database to enable a dropdown box in a parameter prompt for a query, but it's doing nothing instead of it's intended purpose. This:
Dropdown in Access 2007 parameter query
has been the source of my inspiration. Though I seem to be unable to implement even the most basic VBA code:
Private Sub cmdReset_Click()
Me.cboSelectName = Null
End Sub
(Yes this is not all my code! Just one of the subs)
On the relevant form, I have a button called "cmdReset", which has "[Event Procedure]" for the event "On-Click". I also have a dropdown box called "cboSelectName" on said form. Also I have tried closing the database, and making sure to enable macros when it starts.
So essentially this code should make the value in the dropdown box null when I click the reset button. However it does nothing, it simply deselects the dropdown box. Can anyone help me with this one? I'm keen to start implementing some VBA in my database!
As suggested by Remou, the code wasn't even running. I figured out my problem - I had saved the code in a new module, rather than in the VBA code for my form. Once I shifted the code into the form object, the reset button worked. I've also now got some nifty code working with the actual "generate report" command. VBA really has the power to take your database to a whole new level!
I'm designing a Form in Access 2003. My goal is that when the user double-clicks on a record (aka Detail), a second form opens. This is easy enough to do when I start from scratch.
But of course, I'm not starting from scratch. I've been working on this for a few hours now, have added some conditionally formatted textboxes, fields, etc, and don't want to start over if I can avoid it.
I don't know if I turned on/off some obscure property, but I've been working on this form for a few hours now and the Double-Click event of the Details section only triggers when I double-click on the first record or any other with conditional formatting.
To troubleshoot this, I've gone so far as to comment out all the other VBA script except this:
Private Sub Form_Load()
Me.Application.DoCmd.Maximize
End Sub
Sub GotoFrmDetails()
MsgBox "You Double Clicked Me!"
End Sub
Even with the VBA script reduced to just these lines, the DoubleClick event only triggers on the first record and no other. Can anyone tell me what wrong? I'd rather not have to rebuild this from scratch.
I find the click events of form sections to be more trouble than they are worth (click event doesn't pass through to the form if user clicks on a control or label, etc). What I use instead are transparent command buttons.
Just add a command button to your form and set its Transparent property equal to True. Then you can use the Z-order to make fine-grain changes if necessary (send to front/back, send forward/back).
They can be hard to find once you make them transparent, so be sure to give them descriptive names.
If you want the user to be able to double click anywhere in the detail section, just make the transparent command button's height/width match the section height/width.
Move your code from the Detail section DoubleClick event to the transparent command button's DoubleClick event and you should be good to go.
I'm wondering if the rows are getting their Locked property set to Yes, or their Enabled property set to No during your condition formatting.