I need to add a text box to a form, but I need the contents to be a column in one of the tables of another database.
I can do it with a data from a table in the current database, but I can't figure out the syntax to bind to an external database.
I'm assuming it can be done because I can do it in Excel with:
='C:Documents and Settingsc-liam.gartsideMy Documents[OtherDatabase.xls]Sheet1'!A1
Any idea?
TIA, Liam
I have table that I had to add a new field to which we update with a form. I tried to add a control for the new field but the field does not show up in the list for the control source. I am trying to add a list box to the form with a blank and 5 options.
I have attached screen shots of the table design and the form. The table has the field in datasheet view and I have manually entered a few entries in it but it still will not show in the control source for the form control. The top section of the form is where we enter and select the data for the new records. The bottom section (circled in red) autofills the matching record, from separate tables, for updating with the new entries.
I have added form controls for modified fields in the past so I am confused about why this is happening.
I have a textbox with it's field control source set.
Is there any way of having a Sum function that adds up other textboxes and saves them in this field/textbox.
So far i can either set the control source to the field name or have =Sum([size_sqm])
i have a list box with 6 columns. in column 6 there is a time field. on selecting this list box i want to set the value of a combo box to the time field.
so in the control source i put
[Forms]![frmAppointmentTreatmentItems]![comboTreatmentDuration]
This has no effect. I am not sure if i have done this correctly. but the combo box has manual values in it. the reason i want to have values in it is so if the treatment is 45 minutes at default. But i want to change it to 30 minutes just for a single occasion then i thought that this would be the way to do it.
I want to create a table of all fields in a form, their datatype and their controlsource.
I have done the first 2 parts easily enough using the forms.formname.controls.name property
and
TypeName(forms.formname.controls)
But I am unable to pragmatically read the controlSource.
EG
forms.formname.controls.txtname.controlsource works
but when In a for loop
I cannot use the name of the control to return the control source.
Code:
Sub PopTab
Set frm = forms.FrmCases
for each CTl in frm.controls
MyName = ctl.name
MyType = TypeName(ctl)
MySource = ctl.name.controlsource
end if
next ctl
end sub
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I'm trying to do a
Me.PollingPlacesResults.Form.RecordSource = ""
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Now i wanted that with the click of a button (or something), i wanted to change it's controlsource to =DCount("*", "queryname2") ... however, as a result i got #name instead of the correct count.
Thanks
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I want to select JPEG's and Visio files to import and viewable in the report format.
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Thanks
I'm creating an order form for a clinic.
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Greetings,
I have a search form with a list box that displays query results. Double clicking on a row in the list box opens a detail form with the detail of the selected record. The other way to get to a detail form is by clicking on a command button that displays the detail of each of the records in the query result, one by one.
The problem is that there are many more fields in the detail form than the query that is its' control source. Since the detail form displays an individual record, it seems like it should be able to go into the table and fetch the rest of the data. No?
I have created my query based on a table in order to find how many data are in the list, then I have added a textbox in one of the form and I added this line in the control source:
SELECT AcademicAudioCount.Total FROM AcademicAudioCount;
This is what I get: #Name?
But its not working, any help.
Thanks.
ok guys very simple question
i have manually built my form in Access 02. Now i want to bind a particular control to a table - ie. when the user hits 'Submit' the record will get written to the correct tables. simple data entry
i have a table called tblShipping, in which there is a field called Goods. in the control source i have the expression: =[tblShipping]![Goods] but this is not working. in the text box (in normal view of my form) appears: "#Name?"
what am i doing wrong?
Hi everyone,
This is a very simple problem, and it seems to me like it should work but it doesn't. On my form, I have a field called [mindate], which looks up the earliest date from a table. I also have a field called [maxdate] which looks up the latest date in my table. These both work great. My third text box [difference] is supposed to find the difference between the two above dates in days, but it doesn't work.:eek: The control source of this [difference] text box is this:
=DateDiff('d',[mindate],[maxdate])
Any suggestions?
Chris
Hi All,
I'm having a wee problem with a form containing a DTPicker Control. It should display the date for a given record, as defined by the control source, however instead it seems to always displays the default date instead. Does anyone know why this might be happening? I have tried removing the default date but that's not an option, and when the user loops through the records in the control source it populates all of the other controls except the dtpicker control!
TIA
Dan
hey
i really hope someone could help me with this, i have a query (Exp Query) which calls from 2 tables Expenditure and VAT.
My VAT table lists all the VAT Months and their relative Quarter Number, VATMonth is the primary key but because it contained other text, i had to make it a text value rather than format it as a date. so the problem is when i make a report, it sorts the VATMonth in alphabetical order, eg June 2004,July 2004, May 2004.
my VAT table has an ID field which is an autonumber, so i use that to order the list in things like my drop down box on a form. so how can i do the same thing in my report.
the report consists of 3 months which i need to SELECT VATMonth FROM Exp Query and ORDER BY VAT.ID (also from Exp Query) can i do this and if so could someone tell me how it would be written, i just keep getting syntax errors.
thanks for any help,
Baz