Calendar that works in the Edge browser.

[Doozer]

Hi Folks, I watched Designing a Monaco Editor with AI for Access with Ben Sacherich recently, and that got me thinking about creating a simple-ish calendar with AI that saves data to an Access table. The attached calendar/db only allows for single-day events. Hopefully, it helps someone else.

 

[Jason Lee Hayes]

Hi Folks, I watched Designing a Monaco Editor with AI for Access with Ben Sacherich recently, and that got me thinking about creating a simple-ish calendar with AI that saves data to an Access table. The attached calendar/db only allows for single-day events. Hopefully, it helps someone else.

Thanks for sharing; it's definitely useful. Being able to use HTTP, CSS & JAVA within access effectively is the only thing that's pulling me back to access for some small projects.

 

[isladogs]

Almost 20 years ago I spent many hours creating something almost identical to this for school calendar events using nothing but Access and VBA.
Although it worked well, it was horribly complex to code including having multi-day and recurring events. A good learning experience however.

The comparative simplicity of solutions using HTML templates is very appealing. Thanks also from me for sharing this.
For info, I had problems saving meeting times when using the 'spin controls' but entering the times directly worked perfectly

 

[cheekybuddha]

Being able to use HTTP, CSS & JAVA within access

You really use JAVA ?

 

[Jason Lee Hayes]

You really use JAVA ?

No; JS (JavaScript) for web based protects but at home with C++ as my first preference…… Still remember the good old 6502 processor on the C64; what i blast i had with that…… Showing my age now

 

[arnelgp]

the Best so far.

 

[tvanstiphout]

> I watched Designing a Monaco Editor with AI for Access with Ben Sacherich recently

That was a REALLY COOL presentation. He is a good speaker, and in this presentation I took away a lot of hints as to how to use AI better.
Used that this Sunday to create a WordPress plug-in for my friend's bike club in just an hour or so. Very cool.

 

[Doozer]

> I watched Designing a Monaco Editor with AI for Access with Ben Sacherich recently

That was a REALLY COOL presentation. He is a good speaker, and in this presentation I took away a lot of hints as to how to use AI better.
Used that this Sunday to create a WordPress plug-in for my friend's bike club in just an hour or so. Very cool.

It was definitely eye-opening. At work, we've been getting access to new AI platforms like every other month, so I'm extremely lucky. For this, I used Claude and Gemini 3.1 to do most of the work. The trick is to start with a basic concept and iterate with the AI. It makes troubleshooting so much easier. Also, just dumping error numbers/descriptions in the chat when something didn't work was pretty effective. I didn't need to explain; they just figured it out.

 

[Doozer]

the Best so far.

Thank you.

 

[Doozer]

Almost 20 years ago I spent many hours creating something almost identical to this for school calendar events using nothing but Access and VBA.
Although it worked well, it was horribly complex to code including having multi-day and recurring events. A good learning experience however.

The comparative simplicity of solutions using HTML templates is very appealing. Thanks also from me for sharing this.
For info, I had problems saving meeting times when using the 'spin controls' but entering the times directly worked perfectly

Welcome. Yeah, the spin controls aren't the greatest. I noticed they were wonky, but I figured they were good enough.

I believe single HTML templates are the way to go for complex controls, like a calendar, inside Access. These AI systems are great at web programming, they can scaffold a single HTML file with plain HTML, CSS, and JS very easily. It literally took me about a workday to put this together with the help of Claude and Gemini 3.1.

I have a Kanban board in the works. It's not working properly, but I hope to share that with everyone as well.

 

[Doozer]

Been working on the calendar to add several features such as multiday events, recurring events (with rescheduling individual events), and multiple calendars. Also saves light/dark mode preference to the browser's local storage. Working on a fully JS/VBA OOP implementation.