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FreeAccess Newsletter No 3 - November 2001

  Free Access Tools and Databases AAD CONSULTING Sydney Australia_ | _Advanced Access Development
     
What's New at FreeAccess?

FreeAccess Access Add-Ins/Wizards

Ezy Filter 2.0
Now includes reports!
Easily filter any form or report on the fly.

Table Warehouse 1.0
The ultimate source for pre-designed Access tables.
Subscriber Tip: Add your own tables to Table Warehouse. Export tables from your databases to tblwh97.mda or tblwh2k.mda in the normal way. When you run the add-in it will display all tables in the .mda in the table import list.

Super Switchboard 1.0
Super Switchboard is an explorer-like popup switchboard that automatically replaces the standard Access Switchboard.

 Phantom Microsoft Files - for subscribers only

Hard to find files that are no longer on the Microsoft web site - new files in each newsletter

Access97 Knowledge Base
A full compendium of Access97 Knowledge Base Articles compiled into a Help file
The extraction password for the zip file was included in the subscriber mailing of 5 November 2001.

Subscriber Tip: Access97 owners checkout the solutions.mdb in the \samples subfolder of the Access folder.

 Downloads

Try Mr. Access for some useful files.

 Code sample

Calculate Time Totals

'---------------------------------------------------
' This function accepts a time interval and returns
' a value, such as "55:23" for 55 hours and 23 minutes.
'---------------------------------------------------

Function HoursMinutes(Hour As Variant) As Variant
Dim Hrs As Long, Mins As Integer

If IsNull(Hour) Then
______HoursMinutes = Null
Else
______Hrs = Int(Hour * 24)
______Mins = CInt((Hour * 24 - Hrs) * 60)
______If Mins = 60 Then
____________Mins = 0
____________Hrs = Hrs + 1
______End If
______HoursMinutes = Hrs & ":" & Format(Mins, "00")
End If

End Function


Store the function in a module, which you can use, for example, to calculate the total of a worker's daily hours as set in this query:

 Useful links
Access Tutorials
Access® Software
ABus -Access Page
 Coming soon...

Ezy Exporter Access Add-In
Provides equivalent functionality as the Access import wizard

A new Access HRIS database application
A comprehensive leave and training tracker

A new version of the Project Management database
Incorporating daily time management

New versions of:
SmartForm Wizard
Vizual Einstein
Web Tarantula 

Also on the drawingboard:
Instant Invoicer Wizard
Consolidation Query Wizard
Call Logging Database
Curreny Exposure Manager Database

_Back Issues

 

No 1 September 2001
No 2
October 2001

Extraction passwords for Phantom Micosoft Files for these issues were included in the subscriber mailing of 5 November 2001.

 

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What's New
Phantom Microsoft files
Downloads
Code sample
Useful links
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