Running Microsoft Access as a Scheduled Task

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To the best of my knowledge the shortest path for a Windows Scheduled Task to “do something useful in Access VBA” is:

Create a Public Function (not Sub) in the database. For example:

Option Compare Database
Option Explicit

Public Function WriteToTable1()
    Dim cdb As DAO.Database
    Set cdb = CurrentDb
    cdb.Execute "INSERT INTO Table1 (textCol) VALUES ('sched test')", dbFailOnError
    Set cdb = Nothing
    Application.Quit
End Function

Create a Macro in the database to invoke the function:

Macro.png

Create a Windows Scheduled Task to invoke MSACCESS.EXE with the appropriate parameters

SchedTask.png

In the above dialog box the values are:

Program/script:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\MSACCESS.EXE"

Add arguments (optional):

C:\Users\Public\schedTest.accdb /x DoSomething

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