[AccessD] Perhaps I'm just being a dolt...I hope!

[Susan Harkins]

Calendar -- are you using an ActiveX control and if so, just perhaps a
recent update has trashed it? If these are not Windows 10 systems, have you
tried doing the following:

1.) Restoring the system to a date before the problem.
2.) Uninstalling any updates in the appropriate time frame.

Susan H.

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 3:32 PM, John W. Clark <John.Clark at niagaracounty.com
> wrote:

> I'm praying that this is something simple that I am missing. I'm
> completely OK with anyone saying, "John,  you are being dumb, here is your
> simple solution..." As illustrated by my general absence, and my rare
> visits to this list...just can't quit it though...I don't do much with
> Access these days.
>
>
> But...
>
>
> I have this database downstairs in our treasurers department that has been
> running smoothly and relatively trouble-free for years. They called me with
> some weird issues a couple of weeks ago and I ran a "repair and compact"
> because that is what I do when weird problems arise...again very rare. It
> did take care of the weirdest of issues, as I figured it might...it was
> saying a record was already entered that just simply didn't exist. However
> another issue remains...this is actually not my cause for the help request.
>
>
> My problem is...and this seems to have begun around the same time...SEEMS
> to have...is that where they were once able to enter a value into their
> queries, they are no longer able to do this. The one that brought it to
> light is a date field, which pops up a calendar as it should, but clicking
> doesn't enter a value, nor can you do it manually. I started looking at
> other fields and other queries and it is all of them.
>
>
> Also, there are three people that use this database, thus three front-ends
> among the individual PCs, and I have a copy on mine as well. I checked
> another, hoping I just needed to copy a new front-end to the offending PC,
> but it was both (never checked the 3rd...figured it was the same). Then I
> came up to my computer and tried it with the same results.
>
>
> I thought it was perhaps something to do with filtering which they're
> using, but no it is all queries. Then I thought perhaps a rights issue with
> the back-end data, but they are able to enter into forms and tables...I
> need to double-check the tables statement.
>
>
> No nums-lock, no scroll-lock, I don't know  what could cause this...I'm
> out of ideas. And, I am out of time, we're in the midst of a GroupWise to
> Exchange migration and I'm swamped as it is. Aahhhh! Please help an
> unfortunate soul!
>
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