ACC2: How to Retrieve Path of an Attached MS Access 2.0 Table

• Microsoft Access version 2.0

SUMMARY

Advanced: Requires expert coding, interoperability, and multiuser skills.

This article describes a sample user-defined Access Basic function that you can use to retrieve the path and filename of the originating database for an attached Microsoft Access table. The function uses the attached table's Connect property to get this information.

MORE INFORMATION

This article assumes that you are familiar with Access Basic and with creating Microsoft Access applications using the programming tools provided with Microsoft Access. For more information on Access Basic, please refer to the "Building Applications" manual.

The following example demonstrates how to create and use the sample GetAttachedDBName() function:

1. Open the sample database NWIND.MDB.

2. Attach the Examples table from the sample database SOLUTIONS.MDB. (The SOLUTIONS.MDB database file is usually in the SAMPAPPS subdirectory.)

3. Create a new module and enter the following code.

   NOTE: In the following sample code, an underscore (_) at the end of a line is used as a line-continuation character. Remove the underscore from the end of the line when re-creating this code in Access Basic.

         '***************************************************************
         ' Declarations section of the module.
         '***************************************************************
   

         Option Explicit
   

         '===============================================================
         ' The GetAttachedDBName() function requires the name of an
         ' attached Microsoft Access table, in quotation marks, as an
         ' argument. The function returns the full path of the originating
         ' database if successful, or returns 0 if unsuccessful.
         '===============================================================
         Function GetAttachedDBName (TableName As String)
            Dim db As Database, Ret
            On Error GoTo DBNameErr
            Set db = DBEngine.Workspaces(0).Databases(0)
            Ret = db.TableDefs(TableName).Connect
            GetAttachedDBName = Right(Ret, Len(Ret) - (InStr_
               (1, Ret, "DATABASE=") + 8))
            Exit Function
         DBNameErr:
            GetAttachedDBName = 0
         End Function
   
   

4. From the View menu, choose Immediate Window.

5. In the Immediate window, type the following line and then press ENTER:

         ? GetAttachedDBName("Examples")
   

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