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I am looking to develop an Excel based VBA system, as opposed to displaying and entering data in user forms, is it possible to use HTML as an interface to do so? And if so, can you please point me in the direction of how to set this up?
I have searched Google and can only find information on creating HTML emails in VBA, so apologies if this isn't an outright programming question/issue, but please can you help me.
All I want to know how to do is set up a system using VBA with HTML as the interface and Excel to store the data.
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Use the Microsoft Web Browser ActiveX control. You can put this control on a userform or position it directly over your worksheet. Your VBA code will then populate the web browser (basically Internet Explorer in a frame) with whatever HTML you generate. (In my experience, you'll likely have to generate the HTML and save it as a temp file before pushing it to the web browser control - but my memory may be fuzzy on this.)
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I am trying to make a web page that gets information about books using HTML and to place the information about books into a database to use it. Any idea of how to take the information from the website open library and store it into a database?
here is the link to the API if needed:
https://openlibrary.org/developers/api
thanks in advance.
If postgreSQL and python is a viable option, LibrariesHacked has a ready-made solution on GitHub for importing and searching Open Library data.
GitHub: LibrariesHacked / openlibrary-search
Using a postgreSQL database it should be possible to import the data directly into tables and then do complex searches with SQL.
Unfortunately the downloads provided are a bit messy. The open library file always errors as the number of columns provided seem to vary. Cleaning it up is difficult as just the text file for editions is 25GB.
That means another python script to clean up the data. The file openlibrary-data-process.py simply reads in the CSV (python is a little more forgiving about dodgy data) and writes it out again, but only if there are 5 columns.
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Last year I started to develop a small "program" (not sure how this is called) in Access to help the family shop with the stock list and product prices, etc.
A few months ago, a client of the company started to ask for my Access's program because he needed one for its stock and they haven't found one yet. I was a bit scared of giving them the program because they could copy and steal my work.
Finally, my family suggested me to encrypt it in order to not be able to open its code, but I don't know how to do it.
So my questions are:
Is there a way to block the access to my VBA code in each Form? Through MS Access config or with more code, for me, it's the same.
Is there a way to block the duplication of its Forms or the whole file?
How can I secure my code?
I'm using MS Access 2016.
Edit: I've already got 2 downvotes and close flags, if you could explain to me in comments which thing do you think it's wrong I could try to fix it.
Access 2016 allows you to save as .accde format which is in effect an executable file. It seems that is what you need
Heres's how
you can also hide most of the Access environment so users can't really tell its Access
like so
Saving as an executable file as SEarl1986 said may be your best bet. I am unsure what happens to their database if you need to update your code tho.
Another way is to open Visual Basic, go to Tools, and "yourfilenames" properties, then under the protection tab you can "lock the project for viewing" and add a password.
It isn't foolproof as their is a method to break the password by editing the file with a hex editing tool, but it's a good lock that will deter most people. It will protect your code from prying eyes.
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I am currently working on a project and the end goal is for someone to put in the part specification and then the part number and data comes out. I need help to get my html page to search my excel spreadsheet with the specifications and then spit out the part number and price and data. Here's where my inspiration is coming from http://www.lesker.com/newweb/flanges/nipple_builder.cfm
If anyone can help me with a code to search my spreadsheet I would greatly appreciate it, I'm a bit of a novice
You definitely need a dynamic approach to handle this goal. You can not get HTML to Excel work together and the best alternative is to use PHP+MySQL, upload your database to your web server and query it using php. You will have great difficulties if you use only HTML when it comes to update your items in the list.
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I have a dashboard/tool which uses some backend data to populate a number of charts. These charts dynamically change with the help of VBA (drop-downs, user forms etc.).
My problem is that I need to shift the backend data to an excel database without affecting the functionality of the dashboard/tool.
I have limited experience in VBA and absolutely no experience with MS Access.
It would be highly appreciated if I could get detailed directions on how to move forward.
Thanks
Link MS Access to data in Excel:
This enables you to carry over any operation changes you make in the Excel datasheet into your Access table.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/access-help/import-export-and-link-data-between-access-and-excel-HP001095095.aspx#_Toc269881998
If you don't want to maintain a copy of the data in your Access database, you can instead link to the Excel worksheet. Linking lets you connect to data in Excel without importing it, so that you can view the data in Access. You can update the data in the worksheet when you are working in Excel and your changes will be shown when you view the linked table in Access.
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I work for a small business that does a lot of commerce via eBay. Right now, we have a pretty large database (in FileMaker), and our current method for getting newly-entered items from the database to eBay involves entering them manually, line-by-line, through a browser window into Auctiva. This is an extremely time-consuming process, and I've been tasked with automating it, if possible I've already written a good bit of code in Ruby to parse tab-delimited FileMaker exports into pretty much whatever I want, so I was wondering if there was some way to upload static HTML directly into an eBay listing. If so, I could just snag a spiffy HTML template from oswd, modify it, and modify the code I've already written to handle injecting the pertinent info directly into the document, then just upload that.
If you can do whatever with the product data, and have all the data necessary to make a listing, you can use the eBay API.
http://developer.ebay.com/products/trading/
has a HTTP POST based submission handler so you can use any http client you want (Net::HTTP, HTTP party, Curb etc) and post your listings that way.