Refreshing an Excel Pivot Table data source with VBA in MS Access - excel

Question

I prefer producing an Excel report that has no links in it, so that it is lightweight and can easily be emailed.
So I have this report that I generate from MS Access - it writes the table to the TAB of a workbook that I have previously built a Pivot Table that uses that tab as it's source.
What I can't seem to get working properly is
xlPivot.PivotTables("pvAFP").RefreshTable
My code is as follows:
Public Sub ViewAFP(strPathToTemplate As String, Optional dbFullPath As String)
'10 Excel objects created
Dim xlApp As Object
Dim WB As Object
Dim xlSheet As Object
Dim xlPivot As Object
Dim rngWorkingRange As Object
Dim intCOL As Integer
Dim db As Database
Dim rsAFP_Pivot As DAO.Recordset
Dim rsAFP_Data As DAO.Recordset
Dim fld As Variant
Dim strLocation As String
'uses the 'My Documents\COB folder of the user
'C:\Users\[username]\Documents\COB
strLocation = "C:\users\" & Environ$("Username") & "\Documents\COB\AFP_Summary_" & DateString & ".xlsx"
Set xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
Set WB = xlApp.Workbooks.Open(strPathToTemplate)
Set xlSheet = WB.Sheets("AFP DATA")
Set xlPivot = WB.Sheets("AFP PIVOT")
'ALLOW FOR EXTERNAL ENGINES
If Len(dbFullPath) < 1 Then
Set db = CurrentDb
Else
Set db = OpenDatabase(dbFullPath, True)
End If
Set rsAFP_Data = db.OpenRecordset("Select * FROM AFP_DATA")
intCOL = 1
For Each fld In rsAFP_Data.Fields
xlSheet.Cells(1, intCOL).Value = fld.Name
Debug.Print fld.Name
intCOL = intCOL + 1
Next
xlSheet.Range("A2").CopyFromRecordset rsAFP_Data
Set rngWorkingRange = xlSheet.Range("A1").CurrentRegion
xlSheet.ListObjects.Add(xlSrcRange, rngWorkingRange, , xlYes).Name _
= "AFP_Data"
xlSheet.ListObjects("AFP_Data").TableStyle = "TableStyleLight9"
'set pvAFP to point to this table
xlPivot.PivotTables("pvAFP").ChangePivotCache WB.PivotCaches. _
Create(SourceType:=xlDatabase, SourceData:="AFP DATA!AFP_Data", _
Version:=xlPivotTableVersion12)
xlPivot.Select
xlPivot.PivotTables("pvAFP").RefreshTable
WB.RefreshAll
WB.SaveAs FileName:=strLocation
xlApp.Quit
Set xlSheet = Nothing
Set fld = Nothing
Set rsAFP_Data = Nothing
Set db = Nothing
Set WB = Nothing
Set xlApp = Nothing
End Sub
Would be nice to be ready to use, because the user needs to "Refresh ALL", before anything can be done to the Pivot Table

Answer 1

See if this works for you:
xlPivot.PivotTables("pvAFP").PivotCache.Refresh