Hi guys,
I have a question regarding special characters that access doesn't like to see.
When passing a string to be absolved via html, if I set myHtmlBody = "<font color="#000FF"></font> it will throw a syntax error because of the # character.
How can I solve this? Thx for any help.
I am exporting an Access table as an xml file and need to be able to identify and replace '&', '(' and ')' as they are not accepted in xml.
Does anyone know how a query can be built which will find these characters in fields and update to ' and' or just remove?
Thanks
Hi,
I'm not sure whether i'm in the right forum or not but i'll tell you my problem and if i'm not you can point me in the right direction.
I have a form with a text area which allow's the user to submit a comment to an Access database.
I get the following error:
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e14'
but this only seems to happen when the following characters are used " . / * : ! # & - ? " in the message.
Can the settings in Access be changed to correct this problem
or is it a coding problem??
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thxs dinivan
I faced a dilemma over the weekend in that I needed to preview and then print the ascii character 219 (A black block) on a report. It overlayed a paper calendar form that we use to print temporary access passes for where I work. The black blocks would indicate the days for the pass. Unfortunately, using Chr(219) did not work - so I searched the forums here and had a bit of luck, but still the solution remained elusive. Finally (and I should have done this first :)) I went to Help in access and found the answer.
To view or print any special character go to the start button on the computer, then navigate to programs, then accessories, then tools, then character map. Once there, choose whatever character you want and write down the Unicode number that applies. In my case, 2588. Convert that to decimal (Because it is in Hex) to 9608 and use an SQL statement Yourfield = ChrW(9608) to view or print it. The W is added to let the program know that this is a Unicode character and not ascii.
I read a lot of ingenious solutions in the forum, but this one seems to be the most straight forward.
My search has been unsuccessful due to the search function refusing to play nicely with me and the fact that it's mixing up the problems with using special characters with field names, which isn't what I want.
My problem is I have comboboxes that looks up people's name and has a NotInLIst event to allow addition of new person. It uses split function and concentating query to keep data normalized while displaying the full name.
Access trips over, very hard, whenever there is a name that uses special character, which for obvious reasons, causes confusion. Example:
Mike O'Leary
Thomas O'Calloway
Janet Smith-Johnson
Mary-Ann Johnson
Can anyone point me to a snippet I could use to trap for those names and help Access deal with it accordingly?
Thanks in advance.
I have a Memo field that is used to be a description of a document. I don't know what the user will put in (could be anything), but it is eventually passed in a string to a query, etc.I discovered during testing that if an apostrophe is entered (Ex: This document explains how to deal with Joe's pleasant disposition.), it breaks my code. I then realized that all reserved words and characters would cause this problem.
I can get around this one just by using Replace(str, "'", "''"). However, I know there are others that will cause problems, and I don't want to end up with a string of replace statements just to fix them.
I want my to detect special characters in my descriptions that are not found on keyboard and display as error.
Tried using the following
Description check: IIf([Common Description] Is Null Or [Common Description] Not Like "*[!a-z0-9@=.^_$%!#&'`(){|}*?~[]/-]*" And [Description Local] Is Null Or [Description Local] Not Like "*[!a-z0-9@=.^_$%!#&'`(){|}*?~[]/-]*","<<Error Desc>>","OK")
but when i tested it using some data, it shows all as <<Error Desc>>
some of the special characters i want to check for are βuΩ etc.
So if my description contains characters that are not: a-z OR 0-9 or any of the following ~!@#$%^&*()_+=-`][';/.,<>?:"{}|~
it will return <<Error Desc>>
I have a table called: "tb_special_characters" with a field name [character]. In this table are values that I would like to remove from fields in another table ("tb_data", field name [Title]
The values in the "tb_special_characters" are thinks like
.
@
}
I'd like to run a query on tb_data.title that would replace any matching characters in tb_special_characters.character with nothing (I remove and close any spaces).
In my database there is one value that requires the use of a /. (This is not as a name of anything...just a value stored in one of the fields.) I have a form which functions beautifully in all other regards, but it produces an error about syntax of the subquery in the expression if I try to use this value as a criteria for a search/filter (screen shot of error message attached).
I've tried using double quotes and square brackets around the / and a in front of it to no avail. I don't have the option of changing the value...it is defined by this multi-billion dollar project. Again, this is just a piece of data in a field in a record which also needs to be a criteria in some searches/filters.
I'm trying to export either a report or a query to excel with a field name that has special characters "()". I wouldn't normally ever do this (everyone knows not to use special characters) but we're using this to import the excel document to a website, and the field name MUST be what they specified in order for the import to be successful. Is there any way to rename the field name at export, since I can't use special characters on the query or report itself?
The field name is currently DepType, but it must be
"
*Dependent Type
Spouse/Partner or Child/Dependent
(Required for Dependents only)
"
EXACTLY or it will not import.
I am trying to query on a field for any that contain special characters. How can I accomplish this? I do not know what special characters could be in this field, so I would want to query for ANY special character.
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' " ! * # & ^ % $ " : ; | < > ? @ { } [ ]
The code I have is:
strSQL = "SELECT ......... "
Set rs = db.OpenRecordset(strSQL)
rs.MoveFirst
Do While Not rs.EOF
rstTest.AddNew
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I need to know what I should put after "SELECT
Hello,
I have an unbound form where the user enters feedback, usually > 255 chars. When they hit the "Submit" button, an append query adds this to a memo field on a table. A memo field should be able to hold 65,000 some characters however everything after 255 turns into a special character, mostly boxes. Any ideas on how to retain the text?
Thanks for any suggestions!
Stone
Is it possible to query a field for special characters in a string? I want to find any records that have characters other than A-Z, 0-9
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Every now and again one of the form fields contains a "special" character such as /,@,& and this prevents the file from saving.
Is there a simple addition to the below code to remove special characters from the file name if there is one present?
It causes all sorts of issues as many people don't realise that there has been a problem until it is too late.
Code:
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I have an asset database I am designing to manage our computer inventory and assets.
I am trying to get a DLookup to work with one of my forms that will auto-populate some of the fields depending on what is entered in to the ProductID field. For instance, Make, Model, Asset type...
My problem is that the string that returns contains special characters, specifically "#" and gives me the error message -
Run-time error '3075':
Syntax error in date in query expression 'productID=EN371UA#ABA'.
My expression is definitely working, it just looks like it things it has something to do with date/time which it does not. Unfortunately, most HP equipment contains a # in the Product ID number.
Here is my expression -
Private Sub ProductIDCombo_AfterUpdate()
Make = DLookup("Make", "productlist", "productID=" & [ProductIDCombo])
End Sub
Make is the field I am looking up from the ProductList table. The Product ID is the ID I'm looking up from the ProductList table to find the make. My problem is actually getting it to return the correct value of "HP or Dell or Lenovo". etc.
I thought I had solved my initial problem of removing the apostrophe character for each zip code field. Most of the fields have data that reads '12345-1234'. I want to remove each (') character and the "-1234" so I end up with a zipcode of 12345.
I created 2 queries for this process. I first run a query with the following statement "Left([ZIP],Len([ZIP])-6)". That gets rid of the "-1234' ".
The I run the second query with this statement "Right([ZIP],Len([ZIP])-6)".
These 2 queries work perfectly if the original zipcode is " '12345-1234' ", but if it is " '12345' ", the entire zipcode is deleted.
I have attached 3 (.jpg)'s to show you what I am talking about.
Hello,
I need your help.
in a budget application I'ma making, I have a table with all the budgets names, a table with the 12 months of the year, and a table with the budget, the months and the amount allocated for every budget topic for every month.
In order to facilitate the yearly view, i would like to build a special form that shows all the budgets for every month. Each column would be a diffetent month, the fist one being filled by the budget topics (a bit like an axecl sheet).
How can I build this form?
It is very helpfull for the application because it helps the user to fill the budgets month by month, but with keeping a yearly view (instead of having a long list of 3 columns, 1 for the budgets names, one fir the monthes, and one for the amounts).
Thanks in advance for your help.
Can anyone give me a direction for the following problem please :
I would like to create a yearcalendar that might do the following job for me:
I have 12 firms with different amounts of people working for them. We need to see those people once a year and give every firm an amount of days that they can come see us. Every firm may send 5 people each day but we can see up to two firms per day. So we receive 10 people on a daily base but only a max of 5 belonging to one firm.
I would like to have a means of automaticaly according dates to those firms over a period of one year but I must be able to exclude or instance, week-ends, holidays and so on...
I hope you can give me a start because I realy don't know where to begin
I recently upgraded to Access XP (2002) and now my application will not respond to F11 to get into the development window. This application has two mdb files. One is the database (with security), and the other one has the forms, queries, reports and links to the tables in the first mdb.
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I need to have unique ID for each of my record in my form, and it should be created automatically.It should look like this:
AB060106-1
AB060106-2
AB060107-1
AB060107-2
AB060107-3
AB060108-1
and so on.
Idea is to have two or three letters at the front that never change, then 6 numbers that represent current date (year,month,day), and then incrementing numbers for that day.Whenever day changes, this last number starts from 1 up to 999 and next day it resets to 1 again.
Any ideas where should i start from? Thanks
Hi, I'm running Microsoft access version 10 and i need help with a report i need to make. I need to print out a roster report showing what students show up on what days. I have boolean variables in the table for each day and it is quite easy to make a report of the students i want with the days of the week and a check under which day the student comes in. What I want however, instead of a check to show up under Monday (or any day) for the students, i want that students name to appear. So i teacher can just go down the list and on any given day see the students names very easily. when a student does not show up that day that row and column can just be blank
Here is a very crude sample of the report a have. a slash is a check
Monday Tuesday Wednesday
Jack / /
Brian /
Kelly / / /
Here would be the exact same report but formated the way i want it
Monday Tuesday Wednesday
Jack Jack Jack
Brian Brian
Kelly Kelly Kelly Kelly
thanks for any help.
Keith
Is it possible to tell VBA to sum up all columns with the column name containing a special string.
For example I want to sum up all columns containg 2013 as a column name.
Here's my problem. We maintain a list of items that are sold on ebay. We keep track of all items purchased by individuals and the dates that those items were purchased. We guarantee shipping by 6 weeks after the sell date...
Therefore, I am trying to create a query that will show me all items that are 6 weeks and older and have not shipped. There is a column that says date purchased and one for date shipped if an item is already completed. Any suggestions!!??!?! :confused: