Puzzle: Access Message Boxes with no code (3 Viewers)

[isladogs]

Here is a small puzzle to help pass the time.
For Access 365 users, the attached database has 3 different styles of message box. In earlier versions, the last two messages have the same style

Each of the message boxes has been created without any VBA code.
The puzzle is simple and should hopefully only take a few minutes for experienced developers to work out. How are the different messages created?

Just for clarification, when I said this was done without any code, I didn't mean that AI had written the code for me. There is no VBA code anywhere in the database!

Article:

PUZZLE: Access Message Boxes with no code

This article includes a sample database with 3 styles of message box. No VBA code is used anywhere in the database. The puzzle is simple - how does it work?

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[tvanstiphout]

Cute!

 

[isladogs]

Cute!

LOL. I've been called lots of things over the years but can honestly say that's a first!

 

[Edgar_]

It's cool. I can't say how it's done without trying to replicate it, and I don't claim I will be able to pull it off, but I did my checks and I can see some of the ingredients. There is VBA code to trigger the message boxes though.

 

[isladogs]

No. There really is no VBA code as the video shows and you can check for yourself.
The messages are all created by the Access Expression Service. The question is how . . . and why each looks different to the others.

 

[Edgar_]

No. There really is no VBA code as the video shows and you can check for yourself.
The messages are all created by the Access Expression Service. The question is how . . . and why each looks different to the others.

There are snippets like =MsgBox("message" & Chr(10)...

We're gonna get into a different argument there, the syntax for message boxes is interchangeable, but I get your point. By the way, I've been away from the forum for a while, is this "message awaiting mod approval" guard new around here or it's just for this thread?