Re: MS Access Combo Control question

2010-08-19 Thread Bruce Sorge
Everything works now. Thanks for the help everyone. Bruce sent from my HTC EVO ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Arc

Re: MS Access Combo Control question

2010-08-19 Thread Bruce Sorge
Not yet. I slept all day then did school work. I'll work on it today. Bruce sent from my HTC EVO ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag

Re: MS Access Combo Control question

2010-08-19 Thread Jerry Barnes
Did you get the form to work? J - Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny - Thomas Jefferson on government ~| Order th

Re: MS Access Combo Control question

2010-08-18 Thread Bruce Sorge
Ha ha. I just saw that. It happens when you have been up all night and you are emailing on a phone and not paying attention. On 8/18/2010 9:40 AM, Medic wrote: > Who's Ned? Actually wait, don't answer that. I think there's still a don't > ask don't tell policy in the military. > > ~~

Re: MS Access Combo Control question

2010-08-18 Thread Medic
Who's Ned? Actually wait, don't answer that. I think there's still a don't ask don't tell policy in the military. On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Bruce Sorge wrote: > > Well I just got off a 27,hour shift so I'm going to Ned. I'll play around > with this later with a fresh mind. Thanks for a

Re: MS Access Combo Control question

2010-08-18 Thread Jerry Barnes
"developer version of CF - It part of my nefarious plant to keep Bruce involved with CF. I was just thinking that to set up the dev version of CF takes what 15 minutes? You already have the web server in CF or you can use IIS. 5 minutes to set up the Access data source. Then I'd give it only a few

Re: MS Access Combo Control question

2010-08-18 Thread Larry C. Lyons
developer version of CF - It part of my nefarious plant to keep Bruce involved with CF. I was just thinking that to set up the dev version of CF takes what 15 minutes? You already have the web server in CF or you can use IIS. 5 minutes to set up the Access data source. Then I'd give it only a few

Re: MS Access Combo Control question

2010-08-18 Thread Jerry Barnes
"You know in reading this exchange, all I can think is that it would be far easier to make the access db a data source and do the whole thing in CF. For all the effort put into this so far, you could probably have this completed in CF in far less time." Each has their own uses. Access is great f

Re: MS Access Combo Control question

2010-08-18 Thread Bruce Sorge
Well I just got off a 27,hour shift so I'm going to Ned. I'll play around with this later with a fresh mind. Thanks for all the help. Oh, and as much as would love to code this in cf, this is a standalone db app and not a web enabled one. Bruce sent from my HTC EVO

Re: MS Access Combo Control question

2010-08-18 Thread Larry C. Lyons
You know in reading this exchange, all I can think is that it would be far easier to make the access db a data source and do the whole thing in CF. For all the effort put into this so far, you could probably have this completed in CF in far less time. On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Jerry Barne

Re: MS Access Combo Control question

2010-08-18 Thread Jerry Barnes
"Also, when I add a new record, again the name in the combo box does not change. It should be blank and allow me to add a new name. Do I need to make these separate?" To make the search combo synch you will have to put some code in the form_current event like so Private Sub Form_Current() M

Re: MS Access Combo Control question

2010-08-18 Thread Bruce Sorge
I'm getting closer. Navigation works well except that the name in the combo box does not change. All of my data is on one table and there is not a record control source either. It is blank. And the search combo box is fed by a query that selects the ID and name from the table, so I guess it

Re: MS Access Combo Control question

2010-08-18 Thread Jerry Barnes
Cool, I was able to get the control to change the form fields to the information pertaining to that person. Now I have to figure out how to add a new record-set. When I hit the add new record button on the bottom it wont let me add a new name. Ill Google that and see what I am missing. Thanks for

Re: MS Access Combo Control question

2010-08-18 Thread Bruce Sorge
Cool, I was able to get the control to change the form fields to the information pertaining to that person. Now I have to figure out how to add a new record-set. When I hit the add new record button on the bottom it wont let me add a new name. Ill Google that and see what I am missing. Thank

Re: MS Access Combo Control question

2010-08-18 Thread Jerry Barnes
"OK, so I did this and the combo box shows all of the names now. My query has an ORDER BY clause but it is not ordering by the name, it is showing the names as they are put into the table. Also, when I select a name, the rest of the fields in the form do not change to reflect the information for t

Re: MS Access Combo Control question

2010-08-18 Thread Bruce Sorge
OK, so I did this and the combo box shows all of the names now. My query has an ORDER BY clause but it is not ordering by the name, it is showing the names as they are put into the table. Also, when I select a name, the rest of the fields in the form do not change to reflect the information

Re: MS Access Combo Control question

2010-08-18 Thread Jerry Barnes
"I created a query that selects the user ID adn user name from the table but it only shows me one name in the combo box. I am sure that I am missing a setting somewhere." Do you want the combo to show names but in actuality return the user id? If so, do the following: Create your source for the

Re: MS Access Combo Control question

2010-08-17 Thread Maureen
You shouldn't need a query. If the form is bound to the table you can just put the table name in the row source. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Bruce Sorge wrote: > > I created a query that selects the user ID adn user name from the table but > it only shows me one name in the combo box. I a

Re: MS Access Combo Control question

2010-08-17 Thread Bruce Sorge
I created a query that selects the user ID adn user name from the table but it only shows me one name in the combo box. I am sure that I am missing a setting somewhere. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Maureen wrote: > > You should be able to go into design mode, right click on the text box th

Re: MS Access Combo Control question

2010-08-17 Thread Maureen
You should be able to go into design mode, right click on the text box that contains the name, change it to a combo box. Open the properties window and on the data tab set row source type to table/query and in the row source property select the name of the table. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:06 AM,

MS Access Combo Control question

2010-08-17 Thread Bruce Sorge
Hey all, I have an MS Access database that has all of my platoons information and a form associated with the table so I can make updates to the table via the form. Simple enough. What I am trying to do now is rather than have the persons name in a text field, I want a combo box instead. The combo