The company I work for uses a very large program in Access/VBA. Whenever I edit it, I copy the latest edition to my harddrive and make the necessary changes, then copy the modified forms/queries/reports back to a central copy where we all merge our changes. The problem I am having is that this program is very, very large (WAY beyond the scope of what VBA was ever intended for I'm sure). I repeatedly find myself coping a hundred or more files into the central copy, and I have to do it one by one, because Access does not let me select more than one object at a time to copy. I would expect holding CTRL and clicking all of the necessary forms would work, but Access does not seem to have that feature. So my question is how can I more quickly copy many files from one access db to another? Is there any way to select more than one thing? Is there some hidden feature buried away somewhere that I can use? I am willing to try ANYTHING!
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Access File->Get External Data will copy tables, forms, queries, from other databases. It does have the feature you desire.
Almost what I want, but it won't overwrite the existing forms, just tacks a "1" at the end of the name. The options button didn't reveal any overwrite options. Any other suggestions? I'm using Access 2000.
Edit: Make that Access 2002, the DB is in 2000 format.
It looks like you could loop through all objects (forms, tables, etc) and use - DoCmd.TransferDatabase [transfertype], databasetype, databasename[, objecttype], source, destination[, structureonly][, saveloginid]
I see that this was tried in http://bytes.com/groups/ms-access/18...rnal-databases, which may do what you need. This article references Method 3 in http://support.microsoft.com/?id=210111
If this doesn't help, I don't know any more. Good luck!
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It sounds very worth your while to develop a short routine to loop through for all the objects you know you need to transfer and delete the old one before importing the new.
Does that make sense? All the tools are already provided I think. Let us know if you need more assistance.
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