Brad Marks
BradM at blackforestltd.com
Tue Apr 16 15:32:32 CDT 2013
All, We have an Access 2007 application that automatically generates and e-mails reports every night. This application is primarily pulling data from a SQL Server database via ODBC. It has worked nicely for about 3 years. Recently, an enhancement was made to the application which requires the pulling of a small amount of data from an Excel file. This new feature seems to also be working nicely. Each day, a new Excel file is e-mailed to me. I DO NOT have control over how this file is named. When I receive the e-mail, I save the attached Excel file with a consistent name so that the nightly Access application can find it. In other words, I save the Excel file with the name that the Access application is expecting to find. This procedure works, but it does require manual intervention every day. I would like to find a better method so that this manual intervention is not required. Has anyone else ever run into this type of situation? I have started to experiment with Outlook VBA code. I have written quite a bit of Access VBA, but not much Outlook VBA. I am not sure of the potential of this route. Any ideas or insights would be appreciated. Thanks, Brad