Auto print report (2003)

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Hi,

I currelty build a database. User need to print daily report base on the data be entered. I would like to know if I can set up it as daily auto print. For example, the report will auto print every morning 7:30am from one of network printer that connect with computer. If that is impossible, what else way I can do to make user easy print the reports.

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If the database remains open all the time, you could use the On Timer event of a form to check the time of day and to print the report if it’s 7:30 or past. You’d need to set some kind of flag to make sure the report get printed only once a day.
This is rather fragile, if an error occurs the On Timer event may stop firing.

Alternatively, you could create a macro that prints the report and quits again. Then set up a scheduled task in Windows that opens the database with this macro. The command line for the scheduled task would look like this:

MSAccess “C:DatabasesMyDatabase.mdb” /x mcrPrint

where C:DatabasesMyDatabase.mdb is the path and filename of the database and mcrPrint is the name of the macro.

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Thank you so much! I will try it.

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