Using the ActiveX Calendar in Access 2000 to track time off

[lalalelu]

I have put an ActiveX Calendar in an Access 2000 form and want to be able to mark, on the calendar, when someone is out sick or uses vacation leave, etc. If possible, I would like to be able to click on a date and have the various possibilities (sick, vacation, education, holiday) pop up and be able to select which one to enter on that date.

I have created a table with the time off possibilities and have been trying to figure out if there is a way to incorporate an 'event procedure' that will insert the text. No luck yet and I'm feeling pretty frustrated.

Does anyone have any idea if this is possible?

 

[Anne Troy]

Your table presumably has a from date, a to date, and a type (sick, vac...).

Start with a form.
Place the 3 fields on the form.
Insert the activeX calendar control.

I can't help further, I don't think, but let me know if you get that far and can't figure it out. MBN (Must Be Nuts) will likely be in to give you the real deal on it.

 

[MustBNuts]

Okay, very generally, yes you can create an event. If your event is a Click, for example, you can determine the value of the date with me.calendarControlName.Value.

So, for example, to test, you could have an event that looks like this:

Private Sub Calendar0_Click()
MsgBox "test" & " " & Me.Calendar0.Value, vbOKOnly
End Sub

Now, taking that one step further, you could have the event pop up a box with a name space and your choices and save those as well as the date value in another table.

Hope this helps,

MBN

 

[lalalelu]

Thanks for the information. I was able to make a message box come up--worked very well.

I am still trying to figure out if I can add text to the calendar itself. . . The text can come from a table or be typed in, but I really want the item to actually appear on the calendar itself.

Is this possible with the activeX Calendar?

Thanks for whatever info you have. . .

 

[Anne Troy]

To my knowledge, no. The activex calendar is for choosing dates.

 

[MustBNuts]

Again, if you stop and think about it, you could create your own form that, when you click on a date in the calendar, populates a list control that could contain the information from that day. That way you can still have the desired information while keeping the calendar in view.

MBN