Using TempVars as a Powerful and Flexible Alternative to Variables in Microsoft Access

In this Microsoft Access tutorial I'm going to teach you about TempVars which is a powerful and flexible alternative to variables in Microsoft Access VBA and in standard Access development.

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[daekist]

your videos pop up for practically every Access problem I search for on Google. And your videos are so well explained that once I see your channel pop up in the search results, I don't even bother watching any other video on the topic. Many thanks from St. Vincent and the Grenadines

[Jojosmith]

"My db never throws errors" Richard's errors caught in almost every tutorials purposedly to save our time. As always, thumbs up for the most hilarious instructor on youtube.

[Jojosmith]

All thumbs up for the most powerful TempVars. Thanks a lot Richard for transforming us to TempVars 👍

[bumpersmith]

I have always liked using tempvars. Quite some time ago now I adopted Mike Wolfe's Global form concept.
I use it with a settings table to supply data, but also have textboxes on the form that I use Mike's G("DataField") to get the data. Then with a function that I added to set the data in the textboxes or the fields behind the form.
While developing, I do not hide the form. That way I can check what values(or nulls) are in the textboxes when needed.
I use tabs on the form to group the textboxes for the area of the application that they will be populated and used.
I have yet to find where the Global form concept has not been able to be used in place of Tempvars and to see the values, the form is always available and if an error occurs in the code, I just select the form and check the values because the values are not reset.

[Shadow.Dragon]

Great video Ricahrd! Coming from the software development world, my "go to" is global variables when I do programming in Access. But, as you said, I've run into issues using global variables in VBA. I look forward to more videos on TempVars in the future. Who knows, you may convert me to TempVars! 🙂 BTW, the DevHut link goes to a splash screen. Looks like the author is taking a break. 😞

[GlennFord]

can you make a tutorial on how to integrate selenium with access vba to push data to a web site instead of copy pasting?

[homosapiene]

Hi Richard, Is that a function converting formula to value only or copy and paste as value in Access. It can be done in excel but not access, why Access leave it out ? Thanks

[hylarion]

Great video, as usual. However, and on a sad note, Daniel Pineault just shut down his DevHut website...