Recent content by GPGeorge

I think an essential point to understanding the problem that is MVFs would be that they are seductive to new, inexperienced people, who are more likely to abuse and misuse them. At the same time, experienced, knowledgeable developers, who do understand the inner workings of MVFs, tend to be less...

My theory is that they know why it's a bad strategy but they have chosen not to implement the more appropriate Option Explicit because it would break thousands of apps and confuse people. Not every template uses macros, btw. Check out Northwind Developer....

It's ironic that the whole point of his upcoming presentation is that JWC intends to explain how he used AI to develop a project. The post title for this thread itself says it all: VBA and ChatGPT And yet, here we are stating how he MUST acknowledge that he used AI to complete a project, just...

I think that's the best summation of the situation I've seen.

Maybe you can wait until you see the presentation itself to criticize it? It will be given on August 7th. The YouTube video will be available shortly after that.

Perhaps you overlooked part of Post #1? "...I do not know Python but Chat does! So I started having Chat write the code and I learned how to channel Chat in a useful direction. Cool stuff." That sounds a whole lot like giving acknowledgement/credit to ChatGPT.

Hi, I think you are David, right? I recognize your Food Recall program. Welcome to AWF.

PowerApps is currently more flexible and extensible than AWA's ever were. Granted that doesn't make them a viable replacement for AWA's either, but AWA's were doomed from the beginning by the box they were put in to begin with. The train went from Station A to Station B and stopped there...

It probably does, but it's the principle of the thing that she complains about.

Many years ago, partly in jest, I suggested that in place of a license key, users could only install Access if they passed a 10 question quiz on Database Normalization. I still think about that sometimes.

I have a cousin who plans to move to Apple and alternatives to MS Office over this one. She creates regular newsletters for a couple of organizations she supports. Without Publisher, she'll need an alternative anyway, but she won't just stop with that one application.

That would be an enhancement to the Northwind Developer Edition that someone would need to make if they were to modify it for use in that specific situation. Keeping in mind, of course, that these templates are intended as a showcase of Access functions, and not out-of-the-box working databases.

Yup, that's exactly what I had to deal with. Users who could not resist "verifying" the csv by checking it in Excel.

This may not help, but I thought I'd mention it in case there's something you can take from it. We had a client that needed to import csv files into their accounting system. However, the source files were in a proprietary format exported by a different system. We used Access to open the...

I agree. Whatever you did here doesn't address the real, underlying problem. Records in tables have no inherent sort order. To impose a sort order in a form -- such as the one in your screenshot -- you have to designate one yourself when you bind the form to a recordsource. If you do not...