How to Trigger MS Access Code based on specific time of day rather than every second or minutes

Question

I have been trying to pull this off and maybe I am getting close. I have some code in Access I need to Run at a specific time of day. I do not want to use Windows Task Scheduler

Answer 1

Do the time checking in the form's timer event procedure.

Private Sub Form_Timer()
    If TimeValue(Now()) >= #15:30:00# Then
        ' run your job, then turn off the timer
        Me.TimerInterval = 0
    End If
End Sub

An approached based on the above code should allow you to avoid sending an email each time you do your time check.

If yours is not a single user application, this situation may be more complicated. If 2 or more users have the form open at 3:30 PM, should they all attempt to run the job? Can they? OTOH, if the job is user-specific, that may be what you want.