Article ID: 119471
Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Access 2.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Access 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Access 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q119471
Moderate: Requires basic macro, coding, and interoperability skills.
SUMMARY
In Microsoft Access, you can use Data Access Objects (DAO) to list the objects in your database. This article shows you a method that uses DAO to display all the objects in your database for the object type that you select.
This article assumes that you are familiar with Visual Basic for Applications and with creating Microsoft Access applications using the programming tools provided with Microsoft Access. For more information about Visual Basic for Applications, please refer to the "Building Applications for Access 97" manual.
NOTE: Visual Basic for Applications (used in Microsoft Access 97 and 7.0) is called Access Basic in Microsoft Access 2.0 or earlier.
MORE INFORMATION
The following example demonstrates how to use DAO to list all the objects in your database for the object type you select:
- Start Microsoft Access and open any database.
- Create a new, blank form.
- Add an option group to the form. Set the Option group's Name property to ChooseObject.
- Add seven option buttons with the following properties to the option group:
Option Button 1:
Name: Tables
OptionValue: 1
Option Button 2:
Name: Queries
OptionValue: 2
Option Button 3:
Name: Forms
OptionValue: 3
Option Button 4:
Name: Reports
OptionValue: 4
Option Button 5:
Name: Macros/Scripts
OptionValue: 5
Option Button 6:
Name: Modules
OptionValue: 6
Option Button 7:
Name: All Objects
OptionValue: 7 Set the option group's AfterUpdate property to the following event procedure.
NOTE: In the following sample code, an underscore (_) at the end of a line is used as a line-continuation character. Remove the underscore from the end of the line when re-creating this code in Access Basic.Sub ChooseObject_AfterUpdate () Dim DB As Database, I As Integer, j As Integer, ok_cancel As Integer Dim System_Prefix, Current_TableName, Hidden_Prefix Dim Ok as Integer, Cancel as Integer Ok = 1 Cancel = 2 Set db = DbEngine(0)(0) Select Case Me![ChooseObject] Case 1 'System tables are excluded from the list. For I = 0 To db.TableDefs.Count - 1 Current_TableName = db.TableDefs(I).Name System_Prefix = Left(Current_TableName, 4) Hidden_Prefix = Left(Current_TableName, 1) If System_Prefix <>"MSys" And System_Prefix <> "USys" And _ Hidden_Prefix <> "~" Then ok_cancel = MsgBox(db.TableDefs(I).Name, 65, "TABLE NAMES") If ok_cancel = cancel Then Exit Sub End If End If Next I Case 2 For I = 0 To db.Querydefs.Count - 1 ok_cancel = MsgBox(db.Querydefs(I).Name, 65, "QUERY NAMES") If ok_cancel = cancel Then Exit Sub End If Next I Case 3 For I = 0 To db.Containers("Forms").Documents.Count - 1 ok_cancel = MsgBox(db.Containers("Forms").Documents(I).Name, _ 65, "FORM NAMES") If ok_cancel = cancel Then Exit Sub End If Next I Case 4 For I = 0 To db.Containers("Reports").Documents.Count - 1 ok_cancel = MsgBox(db.Containers("Reports").Documents(I).Name, _ 65, "REPORT NAMES") If ok_cancel = cancel Then Exit Sub End If Next I Case 5 'Scripts are macros. For I = 0 To db.Containers("Scripts").Documents.Count - 1 ok_cancel = MsgBox(db.Containers("Scripts").Documents(I).Name, _ 65, "MACRO NAMES") If ok_cancel = cancel Then Exit Sub End If Next I Case 6 For I = 0 To db.Containers("Modules").Documents.Count - 1 ok_cancel = MsgBox(db.Containers("Modules").Documents(I).Name, _ 65, "MODULE NAMES") If ok_cancel = cancel Then Exit Sub End If Next I Case 7 For I = 0 To db.Containers.Count - 1 For j = 0 To db.Containers(I).Documents.Count - 1 ok_cancel = MsgBox(db.Containers(I).Name & Chr(13) & Chr(10) _ & db.Containers(I).Documents(j).Name, 65, "ALL OBJECTS") If ok_cancel = cancel Then Exit Sub End If Next j Next I End Select End Sub
- View the form in Form view. Select the option button for the type of object whose names you want to list.
REFERENCES
Microsoft Access "Building Applications with Microsoft Access 97," Chapter 5, "Working with Objects and Collections"
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