Access 2000 - Erase Multiple Forms?

Question

Anyway to Erase multiple forms, queries, etc in Access 2000? (In the designer that is).

Answer 1

This worked better for me. Trying to remove the elements in the loop itself kept having trouble. I just slapped the object names into an array, then deleted them afterward.

Public Sub DeleteAllFormsAndReports()

Dim accobj As AccessObject
Dim X As Integer
Dim iObjCount As Integer
Dim sObjectNames() As String

If MsgBox("Are you sure you want to delete all of the forms and reports?", vbCritical + vbYesNo) = vbYes Then
    ReDim sObjectNames(0)
    For Each accobj In CurrentProject.AllForms
        ReDim Preserve sObjectNames(UBound(sObjectNames) + 1)
        sObjectNames(UBound(sObjectNames)) = accobj.Name
    Next accobj

    For X = 1 To UBound(sObjectNames)
        DoCmd.DeleteObject acForm, sObjectNames(X)
    Next X

    ReDim sObjectNames(0)
    For Each accobj In CurrentProject.AllReports
        ReDim Preserve sObjectNames(UBound(sObjectNames) + 1)
        sObjectNames(UBound(sObjectNames)) = accobj.Name
    Next accobj

    For X = 1 To UBound(sObjectNames)
        DoCmd.DeleteObject acReport, sObjectNames(X)
    Next X

End If

End Sub

Answer 2

I create a lot of queries on the fly when a user performs certain actions. So, I'll create the query, then delete the query once they close the form. I do this under the On Close event. It runs regardless of whether the query was created or not. So, to prevent an error, I tell it to Resume Next.

Private Sub Form_Close()
    On Error Resume Next
    DoCmd.Close acReport, "EmployeeDetails"
    DoCmd.DeleteObject acQuery, "MyEmployeeDetails"
End Sub

Answer 3

You can delete objects with VBA. Be sure to step backwards when deleting from a collection, for example, this code will delete quite a few objects:

Dim db As Database
Dim idx As Long
Dim strName As String

Set db = CurrentDb

    ''Forms
    For idx = CurrentProject.AllForms.Count - 1 To 0 Step -1
        strName = CurrentProject.AllForms(idx).Name
        DoCmd.DeleteObject acForm, strName
    Next idx

    ''Reports
    For idx = CurrentProject.AllReports.Count - 1 To 0 Step -1
        strName = CurrentProject.AllReports(idx).Name
        DoCmd.DeleteObject acReport, strName
    Next idx

    ''Modules
    For idx = CurrentProject.AllModules.Count - 1 To 0 Step -1
        strName = CurrentProject.AllModules(idx).Name
        If strName <> "Module9" Then
            DoCmd.DeleteObject acModule, strName
        End If
    Next idx

    ''Queries
    For idx = db.QueryDefs.Count - 1 To 0 Step -1
        strName = db.QueryDefs(idx).Name
        If Left(strName, 4) <> "~sq_" Then
            db.QueryDefs.Delete strName
        Else
            Debug.Print strName
        End If
    Next idx

    ''Relationships
    For idx = db.Relations.Count - 1 To 0 Step -1
        strName = db.Relations(idx).Name

        If Left(strName, 4) <> "msys" Then
            db.Relations.Delete strName
        Else
            Debug.Print strName
        End If
    Next idx

    ''Tables
    For idx = db.TableDefs.Count - 1 To 0 Step -1
        strName = db.TableDefs(idx).Name
        If Left(strName, 4) <> "msys" Then
            db.TableDefs.Delete strName
        Else
            Debug.Print strName
        End If
    Next idx