I have a bound form that has roughly 8 text boxes on it. I am in some instances needing to subtract the value from textbox2 from the value in textbox1. For example, my set-up is like so:
lblProfit lblOTBilled
txtProfit txtOTBilled
txtProfit is where the profit amount would be input, BUT if there is any OT billed, then I would need to use this formula
txtProfit = txtProfit - txtOTBilled
My issue is that both txtProfit and txtOTBilled are bound fields so I am not quite sure how to go about setting this up.
In Access 2013 how would I do something like this?
You will need an additional textbox:
txtProfitCalculated
and control source for this:
=[txtProfit]-Nz([txtOTBilled],0)
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I have two Shape Data rows for a Shape's ShapeSheet:
Shape Data Label Prompt Type Format Value Invisible
Prop.Type "Type" "" 4 "Alpha;Beta;Gamma;Delta;Epsilon;Zeta;Eta;Theta;Iota;Kappa" INDEX(4,Prop.Type.Format) False
Prop.Abbrev "Abbrev" No Formula 4 "A;B;G;D;E;Z;E;T;I;K" INDEX(4,Prop.Abbrev.Format) True
The way I intent to use this is to have the user select the Type, say Epsilon, and then have the Abbrev automatically switch to the corresponding value in the Prop.Abbrev.Format.
Note: the values used here are placeholders for the actual values for my application, which are not shown here so they don't distract from the real answer I need, how to keep the selections in sync when the first one is chosen or changed.
Thanks for any help you can give!
I don't have Visio on this machine, so I am unable to copy and paste a working solution. The approach gets a little complicated, but extremely flexible.
Save your lists in the User section, rather than Prop - this then becomes underlying data for use in properties. If you are using a master stencil then this also helps with managing the fields.
You can now store an index in your data as well - this index points to the appropriate values in your arrays. You can use Actions and side menus to set the index which, when referenced properly, means you can have the full name and/or abbreviation in the side menu and the ShapeSheet does all the work underneath.
The functions you want to look at are:
Index (e.g. INDEX(1,User.Type) will return "Beta". (0-based)
Lookup (e.g. LOOKUP("D", User.Abbrev) will return "3". (0-based)
GetAtRef
SetAtRef
SetAtRefExpr
SetF
I had a similar business problem which relied on setting a background colour based on the value of shape data. Your final solution could end up including formulas like this: =SETF(GetRef(Prop.Type),"GUARD(INDEX(LOOKUP(Prop.X,Prop.X.Format),User.Type))").
For more in-depth discussion - check out https://superuser.com/questions/1277331/fillforegnd-in-shapesheet-using-wrong-data and the extended discussion at http://visguy.com/vgforum/index.php?topic=8205.15 - the latter link also includes an example file with working shapesheets (well, working to the extent that they exposed my problem).
Is there a way to take a value from a field on a form and use it as a reference to a different field in the same form, and not just literally? I want to be able to manually enter something like [txtFlavor] in one field and have it show the actual flavor, the value of the field named "txtFlavor" in another field, and not just the string "[txtFlavor]". I'm basically trying to store some vba references (terminology?) in a table so I can bring up a string of text with references to values on the form.
I have been asked to create a system that will store letter templates in Access 2010 and allow users to choose a record with personal information and insert that info into a template letter, preferably displaying it on a form immediately in plain text. I already proposed using reports to do this but that was unacceptable to the end users. They really just want a form that combines
a) contact records, one at a time
with
b) letter templates, one at a time
I've been trying to store the template info with it's form references in a table, but I have yet to be able to make references pull data from another text field on the form.
Is it possible and/or sensible to try to store something like the following in a table, or to enter it into a field on a form?
[txtFlavor] & " is dull but popular."
and then have it show up elsewhere in the form as
Vanilla is dull but popular.
I sure feel dumb and am sure I've missed something obvious. Everything I do is just repeated literally and not interpreted as a reference.
You could get your users to create their templates using 'tags' as placeholders for the database information, in a similar way to how you would design a merge document in Word. So in your example above, the template document would look like:
{Flavor} is dull but popular.
When it comes time to create the merged result you would need to use the Replace function to change these tags to actual data values. So if you had a read-only text box on your form, the control source could be:
=Replace([txtTemplate], "{Flavor}", [Flavor])
I assume you would have lots of potential tags, so using this approach you would need to nest the Replace functions. I have split my nesting across multiple lines to make it a bit more readable:
=Replace(
Replace(
Replace([txtTemplate], "{EmpName}", [EmpName]),
"{EmpAddress}", [EmpAddress]),
"{EmpPhone}", [EmpPhone])
If you had many more database fields/tags this would start to become very unwieldy so I would recommend using some VBA to make life easier, maybe something along the lines of:
Dim rsSource As Recordset
Dim strMerge As String
Dim intField As Integer
'Assuming your form has a field called EmpNo (numeric data) that you can use to pull data...
Set rsSource = CurrentDb.OpenRecordset ("Select EmpName, EmpAddress, EmpPhone From Employees Where EmpNo = " & Me.EmpNo)
strMerge = txtTemplate
For intField = 0 to rsSource.Fields.Count - 1
strMerge = Replace(strMerge, "{" & rsSource(intField).Name & "}", rsSource(intField))
Next intField
txtMerge = strMerge
rsSource.Close
Set rsSource = Nothing
You could put this code in the AfterUpdate event of your txtTemplate text box and it would update the contents of the txtMerge text box. You either need your tag names to match your database columns, or else you could alias the columns in the Select statement so they match the tag names.
I'd like to do a customised layout for a form which involves putting form fields into a number of FieldGroup's. The end goal is to let the user add fields to the form, and for each field they can choose which group it will appear in (eg the wide section of the form at the top, or the left or right lower sections of the form which are split into 2 columns).
Is it possible to extend the userforms module to achieve this, and how might it be done?
Take a look at the fork I have made to Userforms, This will allow you to assign formfields to columns and have them sit side by side.
https://github.com/helenclarko/silverstripe-userforms
You may be able to edit the EditableCompositeField to add the additions you are after.
I have to do intake for new employees, which requires filling out a form. Normally I'd be able to watch over and clean data as they go, but we often have to intake multiple employees at a time, which is why I need to make the form foolproof.
Is there a way to force the input to go to the beginning of a field instead of being able to click in the middle of it?
http://i.stack.imgur.com/0sVwN.png
You can use in the OnFocus event of the control:
Me!YourControlName.SelStart = 0
If I understand, you want to make the cursor go to the first input field or to any particular field. If this is what you need, try putting docmd.gotocontrol "controlName" on the onOpen event of the form. More about the docmd.gotocontrol.https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff192079.aspx
I need to gather some information from a Microsoft Access form and I need everything to be as organized as possible.
There are a lot of columns that can be filled out, but don't necessarily apply to everyone and I want to keep everything as clean as possible.
In a form, is there any way to have certain input boxes displayed only if the user says they have that information?
For example:
Do you have a dog? () yes (o) no
Do you have a dog? (o) yes () no.............Dog name: [_________________________]
The yes's/no's shouldn't be added to the database, but I can dump them somewhere if need be.
Thanks in advance!
Justian
P.S
I'd like to put this on SharePoint as well, so extra brownie points if you can run me through that as well real quick.
Thanks again!
The way I usually handle this is with an option group for the first question, and a disabled text box for the other information, inside the frame of the option group. In the AfterUpdate event of the option group, you set the enabled property of the textbox:
Me!txtDogName.Enabled = (Me!optHasADog = 1)
...assuming that the value of the YES choice is 1.
You'd likely want to set the default value of the option group to the NO choice, and then you'd have the name field disabled by default.
You would also need the OnCurrent event of your form to do the same thing as in the AfterUpdate event.