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Append.dif file to Access 2007 table

Asked by: Scamquist

My business system exports data to a .dif file.  I am able to open the .dif file in excel and everything is properly formatted.

I am trying to append this .dif file to an Access 2007 table.  The import wizzard does not recognize .dif files.

The source is parts.dif    and the Access table is tblParts.

Is there a VB code to append a .dif file to a table?

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Answers

 

by: jjafferrPosted on 2009-11-06 at 09:33:13ID: 25761147

if you change the file name to .txt
try if Access will open it and you to append it.

jaffer

 

by: ScamquistPosted on 2009-11-06 at 09:45:10ID: 25761238

I did try that and the file was not tabular.  Access was not able to import.  I can open the .dif file and save as xls, but I am trying to have this process run as a timed event to append values in the table.

 

by: jjafferrPosted on 2009-11-06 at 09:47:40ID: 25761267

can you please attach the file here for us to look at.

jaffer

 

by: ScamquistPosted on 2009-11-06 at 10:23:52ID: 25761619

Here is the .dif file.     EE would not accept a .dif file, so I changed the extension to .zip.  You will need to change the extension back to .dif

  • Parts.zip
    • 7 KB

    Parts file. Change extension from zip back to .dif

 

by: jjafferrPosted on 2009-11-06 at 12:02:02ID: 25762532

These are the steps required:

On your Form, make a command button called cmd_ReadExcel
copy and paste the code below, in your VBA.

what this will do:
1. it open excel in a hidden mode,
2. it will read the file C:\Parts.dif,
3. it will delete the first row of it (this is the column names),
4. it will save this file to C:\Parts.csv (which Access can read and import),

This next part is, the code will call an append query code:
call MaintainTransactionData
BUT you will have to modify the code, with the correct Table name, and the field names (if you already have an append query ready, go to view > SQL, and you can copy the SQL Append query code).

Please note the field names, table name, and the path of C;\Parts.dif

good luck in your program :)

jaffer

Private Sub cmd_ReadExcel_Click() 
Dim oApp1 As Object 'Excel.Application  'Object 
Set oApp1 = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
oApp1.workbooks.Open "C:\Parts.dif"
'oApp1.Visible = True
oApp1.Rows("1:1").Select
oApp1.Selection.Delete Shift:=xlUp
oApp1.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs Filename:="C:\Parts.csv", FileFormat:=xlCSV
oApp1.ActiveWorkbook.Close SaveChanges:=False
oApp1.Application.Quit
Set oApp1 = Nothing 
call MaintainTransactionData
End Sub 
Public Sub MaintainTransactionData()
    'from
    'http://www.utteraccess.com/forums/printthread.php?Cat=&Board=84&main=1694936&type=thread
    
    Dim db As DAO.Database
    Dim strSQL As String
    
    'Set a reference to the current db
    Set db = CurrentDb
    
    'Append from CSV ...
    strSQL = "INSERT INTO tblSomeTable ( [TRADE DATE], REP, REPID, [ACCOUNT/POLICY]," & _
                                       " CUSTOMER, [REP# COMPANY], [PRODUCT NAME]," & _
                                       " QUANTITY, [FACE AMOUNT], [GROSS COMMISSION]," & _
                                       " [CUSTOMER SSN] )" & _
             " SELECT [TRADE DATE], REP, REPID, [ACCOUNT/POLICY]," & _
                    " CUSTOMER, [REP# COMPANY], [PRODUCT NAME]," & _
                    " QUANTITY, [FACE AMOUNT], [GROSS COMMISSION]," & _
                    " [CUSTOMER SSN]" & _
             " FROM [Text;FMT=Delimited;HDR=YES;CharacterSet=437;" & _
                   " DATABASE=C:\Parts.csv"
    
    db.Execute strSQL, dbFailOnError
    
End Sub

                                              
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by: ScamquistPosted on 2009-11-07 at 09:50:06ID: 25767230

jaffer,
You got me 95% of the way there.  Instead of saving the file as a .csv, I saved it as a .xlsx.

Once I had an .xlsx file, I created and saved an import from Excel.  To eleminate the duplicate file each time I run the code, I delete the .xlsx file then the code is done. 

Private Sub cmdUploadDMDam_Click()
Dim oApp1 As Object 'Excel.Application  'Object
Set oApp1 = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
oApp1.workbooks.Open "C:\parts.dif"
oApp1.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs "C:\parts.xlsx", FileFormat:=51
oApp1.ActiveWorkbook.Close SaveChanges:=False
oApp1.Application.Quit
Set oApp1 = Nothing
DoCmd.SetWarnings False
DoCmd.RunSavedImportExport "Import-parts"
Kill "C:\mrpdmd.xlsx"
DoCmd.SetWarnings True
End Sub

                                              
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by: ScamquistPosted on 2009-11-07 at 09:51:19ID: 31651101

jaffer,
Thank you so much.  You got me in the right direction and I was able to tweak your solution.  

 

by: jjafferrPosted on 2009-11-08 at 12:54:51ID: 25771840

I am glad I was of help :)

jaffer

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