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a full version of Access, while a run-time version just crashes. For a more detailed approach to error handling, see FMS' article on Error Handling and Debugging. The simplest approach is error trapping vba excel to display the Access error message and quit the procedure. Each procedure, then, will
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have this format (without the line numbers): 1 Sub|Function SomeName() 2 On Error GoTo Err_SomeName ' Initialize error handling. 3 '
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Code to do something here. 4 Exit_SomeName: ' Label to resume after error. 5 Exit Sub|Function ' Exit before error handler. 6 Err_SomeName: ' Label to jump to on error. 7 MsgBox Err.Number & https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee358847(v=office.12).aspx Err.Description ' Place error handling here. 8 Resume Exit_SomeName ' Pick up again and quit. 9 End Sub|Function For a task where several things could go wrong, lines 7~8 will be replaced with more detail: Select Case Err.Number Case 9999 ' Whatever number you anticipate. Resume Next ' Use this to just ignore the line. Case 999 Resume Exit_SomeName ' Use this to give up on the proc. Case http://allenbrowne.com/ser-23a.html Else ' Any unexpected error. Call LogError(Err.Number, Err.Description, "SomeName()") Resume Exit_SomeName End Select The Case Else in this example calls a custom function to write the error details to a table. This allows you to review the details after the error has been cleared. The table might be named "tLogError" and consist of: Field Name Data Type Description ErrorLogID AutoNumber Primary Key. ErrNumber Number Long Integer. The Access-generated error number. ErrDescription Text Size=255. The Access-generated error message. ErrDate Date/Time System Date and Time of error. Default: =Now() CallingProc Text Name of procedure that called LogError() UserName Text Name of User. ShowUser Yes/No Whether error data was displayed in MsgBox Parameters Text 255. Optional. Any parameters you wish to record. Below is a procedure for writing to this table. It optionally allows recording the value of any variables/parameters at the time the error occurred. You can also opt to suppress the display of information about the error. Function LogError(ByVal lngErrNumber As Long, ByVal strErrDescription As String, _ strCallingProc As String, Optional vParameters, Optional bShowUser As Boolean = True) As Boolean On Error GoTo Err_LogError ' Purpose: Generic error handler. ' Logs errors to table "tLogError". ' Arguments: lngErrNumber - value of Err.Number ' strErrDescription - va
Editions: US United States Australia United Kingdom Japan Newsletters Forums Resource Library Tech Pro Free Trial Membership Membership My Profile People Subscriptions My stuff Preferences Send a message Log Out TechRepublic http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/five-apps/five-tips-for-handling-errors-in-vba/ Search GO Topics: CXO Cloud Big Data Security Innovation Software Data Centers Networking Startups Tech & Work All Topics Sections: Photos Videos All Writers Newsletters Forums Resource Library Tech Pro Free Trial Editions: http://www.cpearson.com/excel/errorhandling.htm US United States Australia United Kingdom Japan Membership Membership My Profile People Subscriptions My stuff Preferences Send a message Log Out Software Five tips for handling errors in VBA Effective error handling can error trapping mean the difference between a seamless, user-friendly experience and a problem-plagued application. These best practices will help ensure your apps run as intended, without a hitch. By Susan Harkins | in Five Apps, October 9, 2010, 1:15 AM PST RSS Comments Facebook Linkedin Twitter More Email Print Reddit Delicious Digg Pinterest Stumbleupon Google Plus A professional application always includes adequate error-handling routines to trap unexpected errors. Sometimes, visual basic error the right handling means the user never knows the error occurred. At the very least, error-handling routines should address the problem, share adequate information on what the user should do next, and exit the program (if absolutely necessary) gracefully. You put a lot of effort into writing the procedures that run your custom applications. Why let a runtime error ruin it all? By employing a few best practices, you can improve error handling. 1: Verify and configure error settings Before you do anything, check the error-trapping settings. VBA, via the Visual Basic Editor (VBE), is flexible and allows you to determine how it responds to errors. To access these settings (shown in Figure A), in the VBE, choose Options from the Tools menu, and click the General tab: Break On All Errors: Stops on every error, even errors following a Resume Next statement. Break On Unhandled Errors: Stops for unhandled errors, but stops on the line calling the class (in class modules) rather than the line with the error, which can be problematic during debugging. Break In Class Modules: Stops at the actual error (line of code), but doesn't work as expected with Err.Raise, which generates
three flavors: compiler errors such as undeclared variables that prevent your code from compiling; user data entry error such as a user entering a negative value where only a positive number is acceptable; and run time errors, that occur when VBA cannot correctly execute a program statement. We will concern ourselves here only with run time errors. Typical run time errors include attempting to access a non-existent worksheet or workbook, or attempting to divide by zero. The example code in this article will use the division by zero error (Error 11) when we want to deliberately raise an error. Your application should make as many checks as possible during initialization to ensure that run time errors do not occur later. In Excel, this includes ensuring that required workbooks and worksheets are present and that required names are defined. The more checking you do before the real work of your application begins, the more stable your application will be. It is far better to detect potential error situations when your application starts up before data is change than to wait until later to encounter an error situation. If you have no error handling code and a run time error occurs, VBA will display its standard run time error dialog box. While this may be acceptable, even desirable, in a development environment, it is not acceptable to the end user in a production environment. The goal of well designed error handling code is to anticipate potential errors, and correct them at run time or to terminate code execution in a controlled, graceful method. Your goal should be to prevent unhandled errors from arising. A note on terminology: Throughout this article, the term procedure should be taken to mean a Sub, Function, or Property procedure, and the term exit statement should be taken to mean Exit Sub, Exit Function, or Exit Property. The term end statement should be taken to mean End Sub , End Function, End Property, or just End. The On Error Statement The heart of error handling in VBA is the On Error statement. This statement instructs VBA what to do when an run time error is encountered. The On Error statement takes three forms. On Error Goto 0 On Error Resume Next On Error Goto