I currently have a MS Access database of members.
I have a form that has a combo box which is populated with just the first and last names of members. (using a test database for now)
What im struggling with is how do i create a button that opens another form i have created but using the selection in the dropdown box to populate the fields in the newly opened form.
When a user from the dropdown box is selected an open is clicked i want it to open the profile form populated with their details.
pictures and access files can be found on my ftp server:
ftp://ftp.legends-gym.co.uk
User: ftpuser#legends-gym.co.uk
Pass: ftpuser
Regards
I can't access ftp site from work so can't see what you've got thus far however, the key bits you want to look at here are:
Add a button to the form and the On Click Event to open your profile form. Something along the lines of docmd.openform "frmProfile", acNormal
You need something to pass the member you've selected in the combo box to the profile form. One way might be to use OpenArgs so have a look at that
You then could use the passed variable in OpenArgs to select the data you want to fill out your profile form.
EDIT...
OK, I've had a look at the file now. Here is what you need to do to fix your problems (and a couple of extra bits which aren't causing an issue but will improve the look and feel).
On the Format of the Home form and the Member Search form, set Navigation Buttons and Record Selector to false. - This removes the unnecessary elements for a "single" form, you're not looking at records.
On the member search form, remove the binding to the members table. - You don't need to bind this form, as the recordsource of the combo is pulling the data required separately. if you look at your form before you change it, you'll notice you've got 1 of 10 records...
Also, remove the filter criteria and set filter on load to No - You were filtering the wrong form.
On the combo box, remove the after update event. - I'm not sure what that was trying to do but its completely unnecessary.
On the command button, add an onclick event which has the following code DoCmd.OpenForm "Profile", acNormal, , "ID = " & Me.Combo361 & ""
Save everything and enjoy. :)
You weren't far wrong with the filter, but it's actually a WHERE clause when opening another form - sorry, my bad misdirection. What you were doing was filtering the original form - ie the member search form. Also, you don't need to put ' quotes around the ID, it's a number not a string.
If you have problems I can probably host this fixed version somewhere for you to download.
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I create the combobox and choose the 3rd option (to choose from a list on my form). The form was based on the customerT (patientT in this case). I tried several different ways the last of which was to create a query with the patientT and a FullNameQ i created to combine last names and first names. the combo box searches great either way til i close access and re open. then i get the error in the pic attached. pic of form with error message
I have also tried creating a search form and using the wildcard function in the query but everytime i enter the formula in the criteria, Access changes LIKE to ALIKE. Is it supposed to do that? i watched 3 diff videos to copy how they created a search form. I dont see their formula adding the A when they click off the field or hit enter.
I am building an ExtJS4 Web Application and there's a part where the user is shown a "Search Panel". It's basically a floating panel with textfields and a gridView. The textfields allow the user to put his or her input for first name and last name filters. There's also a combo box that the user can use to filter the search. The results are shown in the gridView. The search functionality works well.
However, when the floating panel is hidden and then shown, the fields are reset and the user would have to enter the input once more.
What I want to happen is for the textfield and combobox values to persist even though the panel is hidden then shown again. I have tried using setVisibility(false) then using setVisibility(true) but that did not work for me.
How can I persist values of fields when their parent view is hidden/shown?
The fields should have retained the value as you are just hiding and showing the search panel. It seems there is a bug in your program, but I cannot ascertain that without seeing some code. Assuming that your search panel includes a close button, I would suggest you to use closeAction: 'hide' on the panel instead of using setVisibility(). Also make sure that you are not creating multiple instances of search panel, use a single object of search panel.
Here is a quick fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/DirtyParadoxx/gL9aekzz/
If you want to use cookies, then as Nikolay Lopin suggested, stateful: true would be a nice way of doing it.
How do i restrict the editing of form fields until a combobox selection is made? I am using MS Access 2007.
Thanks for your help.
On the form, you can start off with all the fields being locked (cannot edit) and disabled (cannot click on them) (you can find those in the property sheet of the form). Then on the On Change event of the combo box, in VBA, cycle through all the fields and enable them again.
This answer provides code for how to loop through controls on a form. In this example, you would set ctl.Enabled = True and ctl.Locked = False (where ctl is the control you are referencing)
A note, to make sure that the combo box is always changed, I usually put "Choose One..." as the first item of the list. And check it on form submission to make sure it's not still selected. That way, it forces the On Change event to fire where it wouldn't if someone used the first option of the list.
Hope that was at least enough to get you started...
EDIT: Additional info
In the table design, I put default value of "Choose 1" on the Combo Box and made it the first option. So when the form comes up, that's what you see.
You can set the Locked property of your memo and date fields to Yes (found in the property sheet under data or you can use the .Locked = True in VBA.
Then, in the on change event of the combo box, click the ... and use the code builder and put something like this:
Dim ctl As Control
If Me.Combo77.Value <> "Choose 1" Then
'Loop through all controls on form
For Each ctl In Me.Controls
'Only text boxes, not labels, or combo box ect.
If ctl.ControlType = acTextBox Then
'Unlock the field and allow editing
ctl.Locked = False
End If
Next
End If
I tried it out and it works on my little test database.
Here is the MSDN article on the control types: MSDN Control Types
To do it this way, I would recommend what I said above and put the first item of the Combo Box something they're not going to choose.
This may be a simple quesiton but I need to ask to be sure I am in the correct direction. In the Item Fulfillment form for example, there is a first column Fulfill that is a checkbox. Above it there are buttons for Mark All and Unmark All as well. What I would like to do is have similar functionality on one of my other subtabs. I already have a custom child record that lives on my subtab and added a checkbox bool field to the record. I could get that to somewhat work but what I would like to know is
1- is that the correct approach.
2- does it need to be a field that is selected to be saved,
3- for their functionality this only appears in Edit mode. is that a limitation?
4- I notice their "checkbox field" is not as wide as the one I made
5- Is there a way that I would only get this "field" to appear in the record when it is in a sublist and not when it is in its own custom form to create a new item? I would only have it as a checkbox in a subtab.
Or is my approach wrong and perhaps there is an easier way to do it?
Thanks
1 - You can create a check box using inline HTML field - script the check box that way. Call a client script's function to handle the click.
2 - Not really sure what you're talking about - if you mean "Store Value" in the field definition, the answer is "No".
3 - Edit mode, yes. You can't change values of a field when not in edit mode.
4 - Width of a field can be controlled on the form design.
5 - Create 2 different forms. The data entry form would not include the check box, the sublist form would.
I'm not quite sure where to begin with this. This is basically how I'm trying to get it to work. I will enter the ID of a Hire Record in a textbox, hit the show hire record at which point it will materialise that hire records details in their associated textbox fields.
I attached a screenshot of the form in question. I can also create a new record as you may be able to see by typing in the details and hitting create record (this is not a problem, i already understand how to do this), but I also want to be able to display an existing records details in the textboxes again. Yes I just repeated myself but I just thought I'd try clarify my intentions further :P
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/189/hirerecord1.png/
Anyway, how should I go about doing this? Thank you so much for your help.
I do this slightly differently on most of my forms. First off, when a form opens, I bind it to the data (data set, or whatever). I display whatever record I define as the defaults (generally the last record entered. If I want a new record, I have a button that is clicked that creates a new record in the data set and moves my form to that record. Now you can enter your data and handle your edits, saves, etc.
As far as the pulling up a record by typing in a field I believe you could do this with one text box, but I took the easy way out and used two text boxes that are exactly the same size and location. When your form is displaying data, handle the OnClick event for the field bound to the ID. Hide the bound text box and display the duplicate that is unbound. For that text box, handle the OnValidate event and set it to validate on the enter key. The user can then type in the ID and hit enter. You then get the ID they want from the unbound text box, clear it and hide it and cause your form to navigate to the appropriate record.
Jim