I'm working on excel with VBA and access and i need my system to save its data to an Access database and whenever any new records added, deleted or modified the database should update.
I would like to link my spreadsheet and database using ADO but i couldn't find any online resources to help me with that.
Can you please let me know what i need to now in order to do that and any link that you may know that will be usefull?
Thank you
Andrew
I am surprised you are having difficulty finding on-line resources. The topic comes up on Stackoverflow often enough, for example: Export value from Excel worksheet to Access record
Related
My new vBulletin forum is empty, and I want to encourage new users to visit, like and contribute. But first, I need to make it...not empty. As an admin, I could manually type in a bunch of threads, all from 'admin' - but that won't work. One look at either an empty website or a site filled with admin posts are equally undesirable. So I need to add hundreds of posts from hundreds of users before day one.
I assume that I should do this via the database, which I can access from phpMyAdmin via cPanel. I tried to download (export) the 'user' table with its 74 columns as a CSV table for MS Excel, but when I opened it in Excel, it was not in table form - it was all , and " in a string. If I could only see it laid out nicely in Excel, I could paste hundreds of usernames into the USER table, and and hundreds of articles into the THREAD table. I think. Am I missing something?
I am definitely going to fake it until I make it - there is simply no other way with a new website. The question is whether I have to manually do it from the front end for each user and each new thread (weeks of work), or whether I can paste them all into the database in a couple of hours.
Please help. Thanks.
Just regarding Excel, use the 'Text to Columns' tool on the Data tab to convert the CSV string into columns.
Where are you getting the content from to pre-load your forum though? If you have to make it up anyway, then is there much actual time saving in loading data in via phpMyAdmin in reality?
Assuming you have some content available from somewhere though, then you can export to CSV again from Excel and use a CSV to SQL tool (eg. https://codebeautify.org/csv-to-sql-converter though there are others around also) to generate SQL INSERT statements for uploading via phpMyAdmin or other DB tools. (I don't recall if phpMyAdmin has a SQL file upload mechanism or if you just have to paste the SQL into the browser window... have not used it for a good few years now).
I have an Access database that keeps track of many different aspects of my companies performance and I would like to add functionality to keep track of the hours the employees are working.
The hours are all kept track of on a website called timetracker. They have a few reporting options including XML and CSV files. The site has a favorite report feature to get the same data in the format that I want it every week.
What I would like to do is find the best process for getting the data from this website, into a table in my database that I can reference.
I will not be the one executing whatever process I come up with and I would really like it to be as easy as possible for whoever it is that does have to do it.
Right now I have a linked table that is an XML file in our SharePoint folder. I was thinking that maybe we could just run the report and download the file every week then just save it over the old file with the correct sheet names and it should update.
What I am wondering is if anyone can come up with an easier process for doing this that would take the least amount of time and be easiest to write down instructions for that anyone could execute.
(Would it maybe be possible to create some sort of macro to actually download the report automatically?)
I'm newbie to the tech world. I need some information on how to do this.
1) We have data in excel sheet(where actively data changes are done like edit, delete, input data )
2) We have html page where when we enter login of a employee all the information about that employee should be shown on webpage with the information from above excel sheet.
I don't know php, .net etc. Simply I can do html and a little java script.
Please help me with this.
I read you problem, and here is my help.
First you have to know that excel files are difficult to use in other programs.
They are maybe APIs out there like google docs or microsoft office that can help you extract data from an excel file but this is not easy and not a long term solution.
I assume you are using excel because it is an easy way to input data and see that data. You should consider creating a database with access, that has a similar interface. In the options you should chose sql as format. You should learn a bit about sql.
Once you have a sql file that contains all the data that previously was in your excel file, go learn the basics of a server side language like node(node is javascript with server functionality) for instance.
Then write a html template that works for a employee.
When server is requested information from an employee you populate that html template with data found in the sql database. To find data in sql it is very easy once you know the basics of sql.
Forget the excel and enter new data exclusively in the sql database file(s).
You can do that with access or other tools.
I've just been assigned the task to create another Access DB whose data is a subset of the master DB. I didn't build the original DB and I'm just stuck in trying to create this functionality.
Depending on a Boolean value (which I will have to integrate into the DB) each entry will dictate if all the entries data will be shared or if only a portion of the data will be shared. By sharing I mean transferring the entries into a mirror DB that is located in a folder that a wider group of people has access to.
I don't know how to even start but I'm guessing that the relations structure that the person who built the DB will be helpful for when I erased an entire entry in the DB it erased all data in other tables related to my entry as well.
For added "fun" I'm suppose to manage a C.R.U.D. system for this subset in case either a person accidentally clicks on the share button (Create) and wants to unshared the data (Delete) or when part of the original gets updated and the mirror then needs to get updated as well (Updated).
I'm hoping to get a few good ideas as to how to proceed.
Limitations and Info that I see might be relevant.
-The original DB is located in a folder whose permissions are restricted to people entering data.
-Can't use third party applications that require an install.
-The mirror DB does not have to updated automatically when the master DB updates. It can be restricted to when a user clicks a button called "Updated Mirror DB". (Only if this would provide a simpler solution)
-The process can be as slow as molasses in winter as long as it is robust.
-I have decent VBA skills when it comes to working in Excel but it lacks when related to Access.
-Users who create and manage the data have read and write access to both the folder that the master DB is in and as well the mirror DB.
-Using Access 2007 - 2010
Thanks everyone for take a look at this. If you would require more info to provide assistance please just ask and I'll do my best to acquire it.
Seeing as you have decent vba, and you're limited to apps which don't require an install, I suggest you do it as an excel vba app. VBA has all the functionality you'll need to copy databases from one spot to another on the file system, compact and repair (adox), drop tables you don't need, insert/update/delete etc.
Depending on which info you need to persist to the mirror db, it may be easier to simply make a copy of the master db and delete irrelevant tables (if it's only certain tables you need to mirror). If it's a subset of data in each table, you may find the best way would be to make a template db, which is a copy of the master db but with no data, then create a vba process to copy the template db, create linked tables in this one back to the master, then run sql to insert into the local tables select (whatever data you need to mirror) from the master tables.
All of this can be done in vba, and your users end up with an excel interface which will be very familiar. Good luck.
I am currently working on a database which will bring a number of excel sheets together. I have created a link between the ones in which I need and set up relationships in Access.
I have first-year degree experience of Microsoft software packages. I am not going to move from Excel to Access as other team members are more comfortable using it. However running things like reports, creating forms and querying data can be easier in Access.
The Problem:
I am trying to query data from a linked spreadsheet and it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Often more than none my queries return blank when I know they shouldn't.
Is this something to do with the table being linked and not an access table?
Please see an example query that I have set up
Thank you in advance.
If I assume that Status On is a Date field then your criteria is treating this as text, and this expression:
Like "*/*/2013"
may cause unexpected return results, depending particularly on the default Date format of Excel. Use the criteria:
Year([Status On])=2013
which will be much more reliable, not depending on the formatting of the date, purely on the fact that it is a recognisable date.
I don't usually have issues linking to Excel files unless:
The file is Open
The Excel files has links to other files or macros
It is corrupted in some way.
If you are linking to an Excel file then it, ideally, should be a very simple file with, preferably, no other content than a single table of data.