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Gather Information from Access.accdb Using Outlook VBA then Insert new Record

I have been learning the outlook object model and would like to do the following.

From outlook, have vba code search a table in an access db, locate certain information from various tables, using information from the current email that is selected.

What i can't figure out is how to connect to the database, which most likely will be open but sometimes would need to open it.

Can someone get me started on how to make this connection.

Thanks

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Scott McDaniel (EE MVE )

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jb702

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i have tried your code but i get an error. see code snippet for error location LIne 26

Any ideas on what i'm missing.

Private Sub TestingConnection()
Dim strSQL As String
Dim strConnect As String
Dim dblCID As Double
Dim strDomain As String
Dim strPath As String, strDB As String
Dim con As New ADODB.Connection
Dim rst As New ADODB.Recordset
    
strDB = "247Recon_Access.accdb"
strPath = "C:\Users\Jbryan\Documents\3 - Doug\247 Service DB\"

strConnect = "Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb)};" & _
              "Dbq=" & strDB & ";" & _
                  "DefaultDir=" & strPath & ";" & _
                  "Uid=Admin;Pwd=;"

strDomain = "@invitationhomes.com"
        
strSQL = "Select CustomerID From Customer WHERE DomainName = " & strDomain
    

con.Open strConnect


Rs.Open strSQL, con     '''''  I get error here saying "Object Required"

If Not (Rs.EOF And Rs.BOF) Then
  dblCID = Rs.Fields("CustomerID")
End If

Rs.Close
Set con = Nothing


    
End Sub

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jb702

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I got this to work though...thank you

Public Sub TestingDAO()
Dim dbs As DAO.Database
Dim strDomain As String, dblCID As Double
Dim strPath As String, strDB As String
Dim strSQL As String

strDomain = "'@invitationhomes.com'"
strDB = "247Recon_Access.accdb"
strPath = "C:\Users\Jbryan\Documents\3 - Doug\247 Service DB\"
strSQL = "Select CustomerID From Customer WHERE DomainName = " & strDomain

Set dbs = DAO.OpenDatabase(strPath & strDB)

Dim rst As DAO.Recordset
Set rst = dbs.OpenRecordset(strSQL)

If Not (rst.EOF And rst.BOF) Then
  
  dblCID = rst.Fields("CustomerID")
End If
Set rst = Nothing
End Sub

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jb702

ASKER

Thank you

Scott McDaniel (EE MVE )

You declared your Recordset variable as "rst":

Dim rst As New ADODB.Recordset

But you then tried to use a variable named "Rs":

Rs.Open strSQL, con ''''' I get error here saying "Object Required"

If you change "Rs" to "rst", the ADO code would work also.

But generally speaking, it's better to use DAO when working with Access.