How can I schedule a Macro to run automatically in Access 2007

Question

I\'d like to have a macro, called Macro1, for example, run every day at 9 AM. It works great on its own from the VB code editor in Access 2007 but I would like it to be able

Answer 1

You can use a MS Access command line switch to run a macro. If you search for "commandline" in Access help, the topic "Startup command-line options" gives you all the commandline switches. The switch for running a macro is x macro.

So, if you write your macro to run whatever you want and have it exit Access when it finishes, you can then create a commandline that will do the trick and put it in a batch file that the Windows Task Scheduler can execute.

However, as I said in a comment above, if you are just running some queries, I'd say it makes more sense to bypass Access entirely and use DAO directly in a scheduled vbScript to execute the queries.

Answer 2

You can use Windows Task Scheduler and VBScript to run code or start Access.

Answer 3

You must create vbscript to run your macro and create a batch file to schedule your vbscript.

• vbscript code, save this as schedule.vbs file

  Dim accessApp
  set accessApp = createObject("Access.Application") accessApp.OpenCurrentDataBase("fullpath\msaccessdb")

  accessApp.Run "Macroname",param1, param2,param3
  accessApp.Quit
  set accessApp = nothing

• THEN create file.bat

  @echo off
  cscript schedule.vbs

and your ready to schedule it using the windows task scheduler http://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-schedule-batch-file-run-automatically-windows-7

hope this help :D