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Retrieving images from URLs

You can use the web to fill images in your Access database. Use a image control, the on current event of the form and the .picture property of the image. You’ll need to create a simple function to retrieve the … Continue reading

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Workaround: Access and Dropbox

So you’ve noticed that Access doesn’t play well with Dropbox? Because Dropbox uses a synchronization process to put a local version on your desktop, all kinds of nastiness can happen. Your data can overwrite another person’s data when you synch … Continue reading

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Access Driven Web Sites

You can control your web content with an Access Database. That’s how we run our website(s)! So, here’s the datacontrolllc.com website showing 3 lists of clients: Subcontracting / Build-Fixing / Integrating We’re going to concentrate on the first list of … Continue reading

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Combination Form Filters

I’m often asked by clients to perform combination filters. That is, not just a single filter on a form.  But combining multiple filters that interact with one another. For instance, in the Marketing Database I’ve built for datacontrolllc.com, I have an … Continue reading

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Access and Word Integration

Recently we’ve been asked by a number of clients including Roofing Consulting Services (Consultants, Richmond, VA), KnoxMarine (Surveyors, Charleston, SC) and Hirschler Fleischer (Attorney, Richmond, VA) to integrate Access with Word. What these companies have in common is that they … Continue reading

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Access Database in the Cloud?

Throughout 2017, we were approached by a number of clients including KnoxMarine (Charleston, SC) and SeniorSmart (Sykesville, MD) to fix their ‘Cloud’ Access databases.  They were both using Microsoft Cloud to hold their Access Database files and were very disappointed … Continue reading

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Managing text communications (with an Access Database)

You can manage your texting using an Access Database. Contact us at www.datacontrolllc.com or jjaeger@datacontrolllc.com to learn more. You can purchase this Access database for $100.00

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Banking / Finance Real Estate Loan Portfolio Access Database

So we built this application for 1st Market Bank which has since become Union.  We’ve also sold it to 1st Capital Bank which is now Sterling. Essentially, the user records all of the relevant information about Customer’s and their loans … Continue reading

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Integrating Access with Outlook using automation and vba (Visual Basic for Applications)

So you have a list of emails and you want to keep in contact with folks easily. I do this by periodically sending out emails to my former clients and offering them incentives to come back and purchase again.  Since … Continue reading

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Virginia, Henrico County Public Schools Facilities/Projects/Asset Management Database

We’re particularly proud to work with one of the best counties in the United Stated (and the home of Data Control, LLC!) We have built and implemented an Asset / Facility / Project tracking database for Henrico County School Systems. If … Continue reading

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