How To Show Extra Fields In A Form If A Value Is Selected
Nov 30, 2011
I'm using Access 2003 (with Windows XP).
I'm intending to make two extra fields open up if a particular value is selected. Just as a simple example:
Field: Type of Item
Possible Values: Alcohol, Beverage, Cutlery
So if either a beverage or alcohol is selected, I would like a new field to open up. For both Alcohol and Beverage, I would like "Content of bottle in mLs" to open up. For Alcohol, I would also like "Percentage Alcohol content" to also open up.
So basically, if a specific value is selected, I would like extra fields to come up. I'm not sure if there's any simple way to do it, or whether it requires VBA coding, but either way if it is possible I would like it to be done.
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SELECT Products.ProductID, Products.ProductName FROM Suppliers INNER JOIN Products ON Suppliers.SupplierID = Products.SupplierID WHERE ((Stocksubform.SupplierID=Stock.SupplierID)) ORDER BY Products.ProductName;
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This is the awesome example from sbenj69:
Expr1: 12-(datediff("ww",[join date], date())
What I want to do is add another column which will have an additional number. The additional number would just be added to the 12- part of the code. So if I have a field with 2 in it, the 12- would become: 14-(datediff("ww",[join date], date())
Is this truly possible or is it something that can't be done in access
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How do I go about that?
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Hope that makes sense and that somebody can help me.
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Private Sub FilePathLbl_DblClick(Cancel As Integer)
Dim fFile As String Dim fd As Office.FileDialog Dim retVal As Variant Set fd = Application.FileDialog(MsoFileDialogType.msoFileDialogFilePicker)
[Code] ....
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