Question

I am doing the following in code to set the default workgroup file:

Application.SetDefaultWorkgroupFile “c:\myworkgroup.mdw”

How do I find out what the current workgroup is before I do this so I can revert? Is there something built into Access?

Thanks,
Greg

Answer 1

I’m not aware of a method or property to return the current workgroup file. However, you can extract it from CurrentProject.Connection when you have a database open in Access.

Public Function CurrentWorkgroupFile() As String
    Dim strSplit1 As String
    strSplit1 = Split(CurrentProject.Connection, "System database=")(1)
    CurrentWorkgroupFile = Split(strSplit1, ";")(0)
End Function

Edit: I think the Split() function is available in Access versions starting with 2000. If your Access version is older, you will need to extract the workgroup file location by another method.

Edit2: Read about DBEngine.SystemDB in the comments following this answer.