Re: [MSAccessProfessionals] Form not working as expected

Sure!  Thanks for all your assistance.

Regards

On Monday, May 18, 2020, 03:03:28 PM AST, Duane Hookom <duanehookom@hotmail.com> wrote:

IMO, if your user needs to create a new customer then give them a form to do it properly. This isn't a big deal.

Duane

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Subject: Re: [MSAccessProfessionals] Form not working as expected

 

Understood but trying to avoid the creation/opening of another form to add the customer.

I think the LimitToList would work if the combo box was on the custname and not customerid which was suggested in one of your earlier emails. Refer to below for ease of reference.

Note I am able to select the customer name fine with the combo box on customerid

    

    On Friday, May 8, 2020, 06:39:18 PM GMT-4, Duane Hookom <duanehookom@hotmail.com> wrote:

    If you are tracking customer visits, then you need a table with at least these fields:

    CustomerID

    VisitDate

    You would typically add data to this table using a subform on a Customer main form. You could also simply     create a form based on this table with the CustomerID bound to a combo box to select the appropriate     customer.

Regards

Mercy

My typical strategy is to allow the user to search for the customer in the drop down. If they don't find a record, ask them to click a button to add a new customer. This button would open a customer form in dialog mode for them to create a new customer record. The code following the dialog form opening would requery the combo box and perhaps position the combo box to the most recently added customer.

Duane

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Yes - the first column which is the CustID field was 0" so I changed it to 1".  After that change and I entered a name in the combo box I got the error "The value you entered isn't valid for this field."

On Monday, May 18, 2020, 01:11:04 PM AST, Paul Baldy <pbaldy@gmail.com> wrote:

The obvious first question is did you address the issue noted in the error message?  Presuming the bound column is 1, the first column width can't be 0.

Paul