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Access Northwind Dev Ed - Error GetRandomPkValue
Just downloaded the newest MS Access and selected a new Northwind Dev Ed as the first DB to create.
It fails to open due to an error in the code as it searched for a non existing function GetRandomPkValue...
The purpose of the missing function is to return a random primary key value by passing in the variables for a query name and a field name and then it should return a "random" numerical ID from those possible based upon the passed in variables...
My question is, Is the new Northwind Dev designed to fail on purpose or did I manage to download a corrupted incomplete version or???
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Well, I tried twice to attach the file and both times, the site pretended to upload it. I still don't see it.
A lot of people have reported problems with the currently available template.
Others don't seem to have the same issue.Make sure you download and instantiate the accdb in a Trusted Location.
We have asked Microsoft to replace the current version with an updated version supplied to them some time ago. I hope that occurs soon.
To answer your final question, though, of course the failure was not done on purpose.
Here's a clean copy I just created from the template.
