Dark Parts

In November 2018 Microsoft added Dark color themes for Access in Office 365.

Dark Gray Theme shown

In Access see File > Options > Office Theme











If you want more darkness . . .

In Parts Frontend > Configuration > Select Use Dark Color Theme.
























Then Close and Restart the Parts Frontend . . . 

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Provider cannot be found . . .

Provider cannot be found, It may not be properly installed

Providers are ODBC Drivers used by Altium to connect to data sources.  Once connected to a data source through an ODBC driver Altium can read and write to the data source.

Data sources can be Excel, Access, MySQL, SQL and numerous other data sources with ODBC compliant drivers.

You can find the ODBC drivers installed on your machine by entering ODBC in the search box in the lower left corner of your desktop on Windows 10 machines.

"There are several reasons this message pops in your application or website. This article tries to clarify each particular situation."  Source - Connection Strings.

The 'Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0' provider is not registered on the local machine

Related Links: 

Using Database Libraries with 32-bit and 64-bit Altium
Jet for Access, Excel and Txt on 64 bit systems

To request technical support use the contact form on the Contact Parts page.

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New Features in Parts for Altium - Step Model Field

The latest release of Parts for Altium includes a Step Model field.



If the Parts_Backend does not have a Step Model field you will see #Name? in the Parts Frontend until field has been added to the Parts Backend.

MySQL Databases for Parts can be edited using MySQL Work bench.

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