Is there a way to change the background color of an field that has enable = off from the default "gray"? I can set it to transparent but I can't change the font color to see the data clearly.
Just trying to make the form "nice looking" to the user.
Thanks
Jeff
Hello,
I've sorted out a problem that I had with a Form that had a subtable on it, by setting on the properties of the form for the 'Order by' criteria to equal the Id number of the form. eg: if each record has an Idnumber I have put [Idnumber] as the Order by property.
I have no idea what this does though, even though it seems intuitive? it's a form... so what is there to order? hope i'm not just being very stupid!
Thanks
Peter.
This seems really straight forward to me. I have 3 forms - FormA, FormB and FormC. When I open FormA the user inputs some information, when they tab to the last field, FormB opens (which I want to be invisible) and Form C opens.
I've tried putting this coding on the Open event of FormB:
Me.Visible = False
I've also tried putting this code on the Open event of FormC
Forms!FormB.Visible= False
Neither work. My form (FormB) still displays when eithr event occurs.
Any suggestions?
Cindy
I have a form that is to be used to browse through parts using various filters (like category, snippets of part number or description) to find particular components, and then draw information from those components onto the form to be used for other things.
Queries I seem to understand - I've made a query which I've embedded on the form which happily filters the parts using the combo-boxes and text boxes on the form.
What I can't figure out is how to access the information IN the query! There doesn't seem to be a "double-click" event, or a "highlighted row" property, that I can use to tell the query WHICH of the parts returned after filtering is the particular one Im interested in, to draw information from the row.
What I want is a command button that, once the desired part is selected, "sucks" the data out of the query into text boxes on the form.
I've tried something like -
Private Sub cmdSelect_Click()
Me.txtSelectedPartID = Me.qryPartFinder.PartID
End Sub
...but it tells me that the method or data member is not found. When I'm typing the code the auto-complete thingy happily finds "qryPartFinder" when I type "me", but none of the available properties in the list for qryPartFinder seem to be what I need.
How DO you access the data in a highlighted (and/or somehow selected) row?
TIA.
Col.
I have a DB with 20 forms. All of the forms are closed. I opened a new form and added a button. I would like to do the following when the button is clicked:
Check the "Tag" property of each form and count whichever is not null.
Can anybody help me out??::o
Hi All,
I have been searching and can't seem to find how to solve my problem. I have a sub form that allows adding new rows to a database. The detail contains a combobox and a few text fields. When I enter data everything works fine. However when I accidently tab into the next row (new blank row) and then try to get out of the form without adding a new row I get an error about "Index or Primary Key cannot be null" or something like that.
It is very frustrating because I can't exit the form until I add data to the new row and then leave without tabbing to much (thus creating another new row with no data).
How do I trap the new row and only allow the insert if it has data in it?
Thanks.
I've saved a form to an text file to investigate a corrupted form issue. The output text file has below extracted text. I am wondering where I can find the TOP, RIGHT BOTTOM property of the form in design time? I could see some properties such as GridX, GridY, but not sure where are TOP property.
Version =20
VersionRequired =20
Checksum =-1566200859
Begin Form
RecordSelectors = NotDefault
[Code] ....
On one of my forms two of the fields are "Date Contact Initiated" and "Date Contact Concluded". I have the property for this field set to Short Date.
These two fields autofill with the current date when the form is opened. When the date for both of these fields is the same there is no problem. When the "Date Contact Initiated" is different from the "Date Contact Concluded", the user has to manually go to the "Date Contact Initiated" and change the date ( most often to the previous day.)
What is causing some confusion is that when they go to the "Date Contact Initiated" field to change the information it displays not only the autofilled date but also the autofilled time. There is another field on the form where the time for the contact initiated is to be entered.
Is there a way to format this date field to only show the autofilled date and not the autofilled time?
Thanks for the help!
Chris :)
I want to set the size and shape of my forms to exactly fill a screen at a particular screen resolution. I can only see a width property in inches and nothing in pixels. Is this possible?
I know I can set the fit-to-screen property to yes but this isn't what I want. I don't want a form to fill a screen at any resolution. If a screen is a higher res than the size I've formatted the form for I want it to appear the same size on the higher res screen (i.e. with a border of background around it.)
Is this possible?
Is there any way to name the text box like "Contract (1)" I can write it this way but it is recognized as Me.Contract_1_.
I need to name it Contract(1) as I have to run some iteration in VBA.
On my switchboard form, I have a check box which the user can check to make a text box (which appears in several different reports) visible and uncheck to make it invisible. The text box in the reports has the same name on all of them.
I am having trouble making this work.
I can think of two solutions, but haven't had success with either yet.
1. I could simply change the visible property of the report(s) control from the form. This works if the report is open, but throws an error if the report is not open.
Code:Public Sub showNumOrgsInReportCB_AfterUpdate()If Me!showNumOrgsInReportCB.Value = 0 ThenReports![publishZipR]![numOrgsF].Visible = FalseElseReports![publishZipR]![numOrgsF].Visible = TrueEnd IfEnd Sub
Is there a property or function I can use to test whether the report is open before I set the text box visibility?
2. Alternatively, a less elegant solution would be to run an event procedure to close all open reports. This would eliminate that issue, but I haven't gotten the code to work yet:
Code:Public Sub showNumOrgsInReportCB_AfterUpdate() Dim rpt As Report ' Enumerate Reports collection.For Each rpt In ReportsDoCmd.Close rpt.nameNext rptEnd Sub
This line:
DoCmd.Close rpt.name
throws a Run-time Error '13', Type mismatch.
How do I fix that?
I'm open to better ideas!
Thanks
How to set all controls in the form I would like to get complete information about all property options.
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I have a problem. The problem is that I have a form contains two list boxes controls and a calender control. The calender control is invisible by default.
When I click a Show button, to show the calender contol, it appears but behind the list boxes controls. How can I allow it to fully appear on top of all the controls in the form.
Thanks,
I have never used the tag property but while reviewing some design stuff it occurred to me that maybe I am overlooking it's usefulness and was wondering how some of you may have used it...?
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hello,
I have a txtBox. Its backColor property changes according to what I do on the form. Now, when I close the form and reopen it, the backColor is not the same one with which the form was closed.
Ex. red, green
if I close the form having the backColor = green, then when I reopen it, it changes to red.
Can anyone tell me what I am missing
Thank you
Hi all
I have searched through this forum and on google, and I know that I can refer to a combobox's column property IN VBA by
[myform]![mycombobox].column(1)
When I do this in SQL, it complains that there is an "unidentified function" (column). What am I doing wrong?
How do I set the Required property for field that already exists via SQL. I'm thinking along the lines of: ALTER TABLE table1 ALTER COLUMN field1 text(50) NOT REQUIRED.
But this doesn't work, any clues?
I'd like to create a table with 240 fields. I know that the max is 255, however, I'm getting a message "property value too large" after I've created 114. Any ideas? All the number fields are byte size. Thanks!
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I guess I have too many columns in my database and I'm getting the error message "Property value is too large" when trying to open the database table. When I was using Access 2000, I was still able to open the database but using Access 2003, the database will not open. Is there a way around this so I can open the table to fix it?
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Hi all
I have a lstbox on a bound form. the lstbox is based on a query. I want the first item in the box to be selected. This is what ive used:
Private Sub roll_class_select_AfterUpdate()
DoCmd.Requery "lststudents"
Me.lststudents.Selected(0) = True
End Sub
But then the form gets stuck. None of the other controls will work. The first list item is selected but it then wants to be the centre of attention and everything else can bugger off.
Any ideas as to how I can fix it??
Damon
When I attempt to run my results page with paging I get the following error:
ADODB.Recordset error '800a0cb3'
Object or provider is not capable of performing requested operation.
/slug/revslug/Administrators/AdminReports/Timesheet/TechnicianAllocation.asp, line 185
I have included a few key lines of code:
Code:strDBPath = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" & "Data Source=" & Server.Mappath("/slug/RevSLUG/DB/TimesheetDB.mdb") & ";"if strTechName = "All" Then strSQL = "Select " & cstr(strReportType) & ", SUM(Hours) as SumOfHours FROM Results WHERE (PerDate >= #" & cdate(strStartDate) & "# and PerDate <= #" & cdate(strEndDate) & "#) GROUP BY " & cstr(strReportType) &";"ElsestrSQL = "Select " & cstr(strReportType) & ", SUM(Hours) as SumOfHours FROM Results WHERE (PerDate >= #" & cdate(strStartDate) & "# and PerDate <= #" & cdate(strEndDate) & "# and TechName = '" & cstr(strtechname) & "') GROUP BY " & cstr(strReportType) &";"End IfSet rstSearch = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")rstSearch.PageSize = PAGE_SIZErstSearch.CacheSize = PAGE_SIZE' Open our recordsetrstSearch.Open strSQL,strdbpathiRecordCount = rstSearch.RecordCountiPageCount = rstSearch.PageCount' Move to the page we need to show.rstSearch.AbsolutePage = iPageCurrent'this is line that contains the error(line 185)
How can I fix this problem...I think it has to do with the settings when I open the DB but I don't know what the settings should be to make it work correctly.
Thanks
Mark