Hello Stackoverflow community,
I am currently testing code in Access VBA that will export a form and all of its controls as it appears directly to the user (while on one record). In short, I have a calculation tool with many inputs which calculates an international trips estimated total cost and saves all the inputs to a table, in order to record costs per unique trip.
Currently (on-click button), I am exporting one record from the table into an excel workbook and have a lengthy P.I.T.A. excel MACRO that re-formats the raw data into the format that is similar to the user-form in Access. Is there any way (other than to screenshot the form) to get a "print preview" and save as a PDF or any other output.
Thank you for taking the time to read through this and I appreciate any insight regarding this topic.
you can export your form to pdf using this command
docmd.OutputTo acOutputForm,"your form name", acformatpdf, "export file path"
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I have a simple database that is used to store reports generated by officers within my department. I need to find a way to "lock" reports once they're completed and submitted by an officer. Once a report is locked, it can be opened but not modified.
I've tried to use the "Allow Edits" property but that won't work because if an officer is working on a report and closes the window, they can no longer modify it, even if they haven't completed and submitted it.
I thought of a few ways to do this, but I'm not sure exactly how to do any of them.
Have a "Submit Report" button on the form that once clicked, copies the record from the "Reports" table to the "Completed Reports" table. The information in the "Completed Reports" table is read only.
I don't really have a preference on how it works, I just need to have it so once a report is submitted, it cannot be modified
any thoughts on how I could go about doing this?
Question is basically as the title states. I have a report that exports a day's worth of data to excel each morning. Is it possible within the SSRS subscription environment to have that data append to the same excel file (or google doc etc) rather than create a new file each time (and without having to run more than a day's data at a time).
The following link has a button as "Export to Excel". When clicked, it downloads an Excel sheet with details for the particular stock.
I want to get this downloaded excel file through Excel VBA, where I have a set of links it loops through them download books from each link, copy certain data and paste it. While writing the code I realised that for downloading from web, the link should end with xlsx or csv or something related to excel.
Sub transfercsv()
sLink = "http://www.screener.in/company/?q=500095" 'I can loop and attach links to this..
sfile = "downloaded.xls" 'I can get this rectified as well...
ssheet = "Data sheet"
'Further code I can build up
....
End sub
Final question: "How can I ask Excel VBA to download the workbook behind the Export to Excel link."
or
"How can I find the xlsx link behind the Export to Excel button."
P.S:- I have tagged as JSON as well, becasuse while researching I found the the export link has something to do with JSON..
This is Pratyush from Screener.in.
The above won't work because of these technical reasons:
The export function uses POST request.
The page is behind a user login.
The post request has CSRF protection to prevent automation.
This has been done because generating customized XLSX files is heavy and server dynamic process, and being on a shared host we have limited resources.
A better alternative can be to use Google Docs worksheets. They have a wonderful API integrated with Google Finance which can provide much of the financial data.
I have data in access in the form of a table. I need to export it to excel in the form of an excel sheet where i should even be able to make updates to the data if necessary. I have to do this using VBA. And also one more thing the data I have in access is which i have generated using SQL
Why do this with VBA? There are multiple simple ways to do this from the normal interface options.
And what do you mean by, "the data I have in access is which i have generated using SQL"?
Modules: Sample Excel Automation - cell by cell which is slow
Modules: Transferring Records to Excel with Automation
I've been trying to create a complete system using MS Access, but i really need to use the functionality of excel spreadsheets.
I wish to do the following; when I create a record, i create a directory for that record, and copy an excel spreadsheet to that directory.
The spreadsheet will be able to link to the corresponding record. So for example if I have a field 'Name' In the database record, the value of this field will show up on the excel spreadsheet.
Is it possible to do this?
It might help for you to explain your concept of "links" between Access rows and separate spreadsheets. That baffles me.
Rather than "link" each Access record to a separate spreadsheet, perhaps you could have the spreadsheet query the database to retrieve whatever updated information it needs.
Or use automation driven from Access to revise the spreadsheet.
Edit: To get start driving Excel from Access, look at Sample Excel Automation by Dev Ashish
Sounds overly complex and unmaintainable. Why not just embed a spreadsheet into your record?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/209990