[AccessD] AXP Combobox Shows blank formatted date column

Charlotte Foust cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Thu Mar 3 16:46:56 CST 2005


Thanks, Mark.  I tried to get to the old archives, but got a "cannot
display page" error getting to Drew's site.

Charlotte Foust


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark A Matte [mailto:markamatte at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 2:29 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: RE: [AccessD] AXP Combobox Shows blank formatted date column


Charlotte,

I also remember this...but it has been some years...the part I do
remember 
is that my client was using the A2k runtime...not sure of the OS.

I'm not sure how the ACCESSD archives are stored...but I'm pretty sure I

would have asked this list for help ( and got it)...and it would have
been 
between Nov 2000 and May 2001.  Other that that...later tonight I can
pull 
up the app I sent him and look for anything 'different or odd' that I
did to 
the date fields.

Thanks,

Mark


>From: "Charlotte Foust" <cfoust at infostatsystems.com>
>Reply-To: Access Developers discussion and problem
>solving<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
>To: "Access Developers discussion and problem 
>solving"<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
>Subject: RE: [AccessD] AXP Combobox Shows blank formatted date column
>Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 14:02:34 -0800
>
>No, if it were the runtime installation (which is AXP SP3, BTW), we'd 
>have problems on all the installations at that client.  It's only 
>turning up on some of the Win2k machines, not all.  Even then, it 
>doesn't make sense that it would display properly when you selected a 
>well from the combobox on the form but not when you selected a well 
>from another form and passed the value back, since that calls exactly 
>the same AfterUpdate event for the Well combobox that making a direct 
>selection calls.  Furthermore, it ONLY breaks after opening the second 
>form and choosing a well from there.  We can't reproduce it in our 
>office at all, but one of our owners saw it in action at the client 
>location.
>
>Charlotte Foust
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: dmcafee at pacbell.net [mailto:dmcafee at pacbell.net]
>Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 1:54 PM
>To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>Subject: RE: [AccessD] AXP Combobox Shows blank formatted date column
>
>
>Something to do with the runtime maybe? Are you testing with a true 
>runtime or using the /runtime parameter in the command line when 
>testing on your end?
>
>
>D
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Charlotte 
>Foust
>Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 1:45 PM
>To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>Subject: RE: [AccessD] AXP Combobox Shows blank formatted date column
>
>
>We're trying to find out *why* it's happening so we can prevent it, and

>the form is shared with the Access version, so an sproc or view is out 
>of the question.  The client is in Oklahoma and using a runtime 
>executable, so there isn't any printing to the immediate window.  The 
>fact that the dates appear if we remove the Format function from the 
>rowsource strongly suggests that the dates are there but that something

>is interfering in rendering them.
>
>Charlotte Foust
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: dmcafee at pacbell.net [mailto:dmcafee at pacbell.net]
>Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 11:15 AM
>To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>Cc: Steve White
>Subject: RE: [AccessD] AXP Combobox Shows blank formatted date column
>
>
>Have you printed to the immediate window to see if the value is 
>actually in the combo (just not displaying)?
>
>What about changing the resource to a view or sproc that formats the 
>number for you?
>
>D
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Charlotte 
>Foust
>Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 11:04 AM
>To: AccessD at databaseadvisors.com
>Cc: Steve White
>Subject: [AccessD] AXP Combobox Shows blank formatted date column
>
>
>We have a client installation where certain machines running Windows 
>2000 are seeing an odd behavior in a combobox that displays two 
>columns, a report number and a medium formatted date.  We have not been

>able to reproduce the behavior here even on Win2k, so I need some 
>ideas. The back end is SQL Server 2000 and the combobox has this for a 
>rowsource:
>
>SELECT  ReportNo, ReportNo as [Number], Format(ReportDate, "dd-mmm-yy")

>FROM DailyDrillHdr WHERE
>((DailyDrillHdr.WellID=[Forms]![frmDailyRpt]![cboWellID])) Order by 
>ReportNo desc;
>
>This works fine when the form opens and a WellID is selected.  It 
>breaks when the user brings up a popup form that allows them to select 
>a different WellID and hand that back to the initial form.  The initial

>form obligingly changes the WellID in its Well combobox, which 
>repopulates the subform, and it specifically requeries the report 
>number combobox in the AfterUpdate event of the WellID combobox.
>
>At this point, however, on those problem machines, the date column of 
>the report number combo is blank and it doesn't show dates again until 
>the form is closed and reopened.  The combobox is being requeried, 
>because the correct report numbers do show up in it, but not the dates 
>associated with them.  The really odd part is that if you take the 
>formatting out of the combobox rowsource, the dates show up every time.
>
>
>Has anyone else seen something like this?  I know I have, but it's been

>years ago and I can't remember what caused it!
>
>Charlotte Foust
>Infostat Systems, Inc.
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