RE: Microsoft Access using CL

Thanks Doug,
Will give this a try.



William Moore
California Fine Wire
805-489-5144

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Douglas Handy
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 12:19 PM
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Subject: Re: Microsoft Access using CL

William,

I need to automate a call to Microsoft Access using CL. It is just a read

and report Access program. I have been able to do this with Excel. So
would like to do it with Access.

Any help and/or examples would be greatly appreciated.

In Access, if you create a macro called AutoExec, it gets run automatically when the database is opened. I prefer VBA code blocks over macros, so I just use the macro to call a function which I also call AutoExec().

But do you just want this report to print, then have the database close again? In that case create a new macro (eg PrintMyReport) and have it perform an OpenReport action on the desired report, followed by a CloseDatabase action. Then to launch it do something like this:

"start [path]MyDatabase.mdb /runtime /nostartup /x PrintMyReport"

This will cause Windows to launch whatever version of Access is installed, run in startup mode without a splash screen, then invoke the macro named PrintMyReport. Since the macro prints the report then closes the database, I think it should just print and exit.

Doug
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