I'm trying to make an improved search text field in a form in Access. I'm searching through my customer names and I've been able to implement a "search as you type" textbox linked to a listbox where the matching records show up.
Now I want to simply double click on an item in the listbox and have all the fields of the form update automatically. I am pretty sure it already exists, but I havn't been able to find it. I'd be glad to be pointed to an existing resource or anything.
Thanks for your help!
In the listbox's On Dbl Click event, click the button and choose code builder.
Then you will need to write some code to figure out which row of the listbox is selected. Use the .ItemData method of your listbox. See here
This will return the value in the bound column of your listbox, which you can use to tell the form to navigate to the record that matches that bound column value. You may want to use a DLOOKUP to find the Record ID if the listbox bound column is not the primary key. Then you navigate to the record. For that you will likely need the .FindRecord method. See here
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Would really like some guidance on this one. Not as easy as the title might say at first and I'm stuck beyond all and frustrated.
So:
I have a MainForm (With a current ID I would like to stay on!)
I have a Subform (search engine that searches in various linked excel files)
I have 2 tables; one for the Mainform, and one for Items
So on the Mainform, I display the Subform (search).
I do my search and find a specific item in the excel files
I have a command button, that I want to click save the found item in the search field, into my ItemsTable as a new record.
Currently I'm doing this:
Private Sub Command13_Click()
Forms!MainForm.Form.Item1.Value = Me.Searchresult.Value
End Sub
This does actually post my search result into a new field and saves it into the itemsTable.
My problem: I don't need to actually have a field to post to. I just want it to write directly to my table and store it there as a NEW record. (Right now it just overwrites the previous data. Logically because its the same field every time with the same properties).
Can someone PLEASE help me with this one?
Options:
set focus to the subform container then move to New Record row followed by your code, this is not simple, review https://access-programmers.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=127337
use SQL INSERT action then requery the subform
CurrentDb.Execute("INSERT INTO Items(Item1) VALUES('" & Me.Searchresult & "'")
I have a form linked to a table. I am trying to use the me.dirty function to see if the user changed anything. For now I put the code msgbox(me.dirty) in the form close button to determine what is happening. When some fields are changed i get true others i get false. For now I am only changing one field at a time. I have determined that if I look at the table before I close the form, if the table matches the form me.dirty is false. if not then me.dirty is true. this makes sense I dirty=true when the form does not match the table.
What I cannot figure out is why some field match the table and others do not until the form is closed. For example I have two check boxes one is always matching the table as soon as i check or uncheck it and dirty = false. The other one does not change the table until I close the form and dirty=true. Iv'e looked at all the properties of the two check boxes and they are the same.
I also have two drop downs that give me dirty=true and two text boxes that always give me dirty = false. (both cases when the field is changed.)
Any help would be appreciated as I am stumped right now.
OK I figured it out on my own. The ones where me.dirty=false had an event after update that put focus on a subform, this updated the table and then when clicked the button to run me.dirty, it was false.
I have a form, the form is bound to a query which returns only one field. On that form is one combo box, bound to the field from the query, a subform object and some other unimportant stuff. The Master-Child relationship between the Form and Subform is set to that same field. The intent is that dropping down the combo box allows me to add information on the subform pertaining to that record in the combobox (it's a list of classes in a school, for context). This is done through a form and subform as I have various different tasks that need to be done for each class - the intent is to be able to select a class on the main form and then use command buttons on it to select which subform is opened depending on which task I wish to perform.
However, the Combo box appears to be trying to update a table - I'm not sure which one as the error message isn't specific:
The changes you requested to the table were not successful because
they would create duplicate values in the index, primary key or
relationship. Change the data in the field or fields that contain
duplicate data, remove the index or redefine the index to allow
duplicate values and try again
appears if I select any value other than the first one from the combo box and then click in the first text box on the subform. However, I can click in the subform with the first entry in the combo box selected and add data successfully, I've checked and it is appearing in the underlying tables.
It seems to me, as a relative novice in Access, that the combo box is attempting to update the underlying data source when it is changed, though it has no macros. I would assume there are items in the properties of the form or the combobox that prevent that from happening but I can't find them. That is just a guess as to what's happening, though, and I could be wrong.
It's possible that this is related to this question but I could be mistaken there as well. Regardless, the Form shouldn't be able to update/edit/add records but if I set Allow Edits in its properties to "No" I am unable to actually select a value from the combobox - I have set the other "Allow" properties to "No" without a problem.
If you change anything in the main form and then click on the subform then Access will try to save the data in the main form automatically. Maybe you can try to temporally exchange the combo box with a text field for testing. That should help you to clarify the problem.
On a form, I have a combobox, with the RowSource coming from a query (specifically, a calculated field in the query). When the user makes a selection, I want to update a label on the same form with a different column from that same query, but of course associated to the selection.
I'm fine with VBA and writing queries and whatnot, but I am not very familiar with Access forms.
By the way, I tried searching for an answer to this, but it was quite difficult because I don't know what this thing is really called that I am trying to do. A good link to a site explaining this would be perfectly fine (no need to write a bunch of stuff here if it already exists elsewhere).
In the After Update event of my combo box, cboUserID, I can set a label control, lblFoo, to the value of the second column in the selected row of the combo.
Me.lblFoo.Caption = Me.cboUserID.Column(1)
If your combo box is bound to a field in the form's record source, you may want to do that same operation from the form's On Current event also.
You can use the column property to refer to anything other than the bound column of a combo.
Rowsource: SELECT ID, SName, FName FROM Table
Me.MyCombo.Column(2)
This would return FName.
-- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa224084(v=office.11).aspx
Me.MyLabel.Caption = Me.MyCombo.Column(2)
In GXT I want to create a form where a single field can have multiple values. so once one value is provided user should have option enter another value for the same field, similar to how we attach files in an e-mail.. what is the best way to do this?
One way to provide a button with plus symbol in the form. Clicking that button should add a field to the form dynamically. User can use that field to provide another value.
If you are talking about a single control, which can capture multiple values, can you try Multi-Select field like the one explained in this thread?