I have a form that is bounded to a table and I have one required field in the table. When I try to enter a new record through the form, and then I decide not to enter the record, I get stuck, It keeps saying that I need to enter a value for the required field. Is there a way for the form to have a submit button, and only when I click this button, the record goes into the table and otherwise it just gives me an interface through the form where I can edit the values without worrying about the required fields. Any help is appreciated!
Any other approach is welcome too!
As soon as you add data to a record Access creates the record (and assigns it an ID#). In the BEFORE UPDATE event for the control for the required field, check to see if the value is null, and if so, UNDO the changes. Example:
Private Sub txtControlName_BeforeUpdate(Cancel As Integer)
If IsNull(Me!txtControlName) Then
Me.Undo
End If
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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
I have a form in Lotus Notes containing an editable text field.
Once the user enters a value in that field, it gets saved properly when I check it by opening the document from the back-end.
But I need this value to be seen in the form every time the user opens the form.
Because it is a configuration form where the user should be able to see all the values saved.
For example, a field which contains the path to download a report. And it should be an editable field itself. Is there any way to do this? Any sort of clue or help would be really appreciated. Thanks in advance!
The value of an editable field stored in a document does keep it's value every time the user opens the document.
It sounds like you may ask for something else. You want User A to create a document, enter a value (i.g. a download path) and save the document. When User A or User B later creates another document based on the same form, the previously entered value should be the default. Is that what you mean?
In that case you could simply use #DbLookup or #DbColumn in the formula language in the Default Value property of the field.
Or create a lookup view with the previously created document, sorted descending by date, then use the GetFirstDocument method of the NotesView class to get the first document in that view and read the value out of it using the GetItemValues method of the NotesDocument class.
Performance tip: If you make sure the value you want to look up is visible in the lookup view you can use the GetFirstEntry method of the NotesView class, then use the ColumnValues property to get the value, this is much faster.
Solution is to use #DbColumn in the default value of the editable text field of my form
So I have a form in Access.![acessform1][1]
Here are form properties
I got this database and have been making adjustments to the other forms. I gave the database back to the user and they reported an issue that this form is not acting properly, and the add order record function is not working anymore.
There's an Add Order Record button on the right side of the form that would usually add the record if the user manually entered input into some of the boxes. The old form you would have control of the values 1/0 for yes/no. You can enter text into the notes boxes.
This functionality doesn't work anymore, and I can't seem to figure out why. The form is identical to the original and no adjustments have been made except to the table that it pulls data from.
So the symptoms are:
User input is not accepted in text boxes.
The find CP functionality works with the drop down and reflects the records accurately but I cannot update the fields.
Also, the fields CP_Ref and Invoice date don't let me enter data anymore.
Also the Add Order Record was giving me an error that The it could not find the record specified, but I since copied the original form back into place and that error went away.
I think functionality wise this button should save the record after a field is updated and should add a new record.
Seems like all the controls are locked on the page.
Here is the query that pulls the data when I click the button that takes me to the Order form.
SELECT DISTINCTROW CPOrders.Cust, Customer.NAME, CPOrders.CP_Ref, CPOrders.Slsman,
CPOrders.Date_opn, CPOrders.CPSmall, CPOrders.InvIssu, CPOrders.InvNo,
CPOrders.InvDate, CPOrders.DueDate, CPOrders.ETADate, CPOrders.Closed,
CPOrders.Cust, CPOrders.Name, CPOrders.BuyerRef, CPOrders.ToCity,
CPOrders.ToState, CPOrders.ToCtry, CPOrders.ToPort, CPOrders.Supplier,
CPOrders.Origin, CPOrders.Product, CPOrders.GradeType, CPOrders.NoUnits,
CPOrders.Pkg, CPOrders.Qty, CPOrders.TotSale, CPOrders.TotCost,
CPOrders.GrMargin, CPOrders.[Sale$/Unit], CPOrders.[Cost$/Unit],
CPOrders.OceanCost, CPOrders.OceanNotes, CPOrders.BLadingDate,
CPOrders.USAPort, CPOrders.FOBCost, CPOrders.FASExportVal,
CPOrders.InlandFrt, CPOrders.CommodCode, CPOrders.Notes,
CPOrders.ProjCust, CPOrders.ProjValue, CPOrders.ContainerNumber,
CPOrders.Vessel, Customer.TERMS
FROM Customer INNER JOIN CPOrders ON Customer.[CUST_#] = CPOrders.Cust
ORDER BY CPOrders.CP_Ref;
I ended up checking several locations for the answer to this.
What it ended up being was a primary key issue.
Essentially when I got the updated database I put them into new tables, effectively destroying the dependencies, relationships, and established keys.
I reverted back to the old tables and found out the form worked properly.
The issue ultimately was that the primary keys were not defined as needed for the table to be updated.
I develop small database which gets bigger every day and I've got a situation with Before Update Event on one field.
Let's say I have main form which has subform based on the table (PONSt). The subform has one specific field (PONSt_PDV) which data depends on the other table (APP_PDV). When user updates that field (PONSt_PDV) directly in combo box, Before Update events is triggered and some calculations are done. That works perfectly!
The second situation (which is the reason for this question) is when user double clicks that combo box to open pop up form which contains the data from the other table (APP_PDV). In that pop up form user can edit, add or delete it's data and everything works great. There is a button on that pop up form which is used to get data (ID) from that table (APP_PDV), store it to the first table's field (PONSt_PDV), close the pop up form and get back to the first form (sub form on the first form, to be exact). After that, I want to recalculate other fields (in the first table PONSt) depending on the change in field (PONSt_PDV), but Before Update (or After Update) event in that case doesn't trigger at all.
What I'm doing wrong? Is there something that I can't see? Thanks!
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)