[AccessD] combo box not displaying data

Arthur Fuller fuller.artful at gmail.com
Wed Mar 18 10:45:07 CDT 2009


One thing you might try is to save the union query to a named query and then
to use that name in place of the select statement. No promises, but I hate
to see a girl wasting all that typing time. If there's anything worse than
data entry it's duplicate data entry.

Arthur

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Carolyn Johnson
<cjlabs at worldnet.att.net>wrote:

> Access2000/2003, Win XP
>
> I have a combo box with a union query as a row source.  There are two
> criteria based on data from other fields.  The combo box was working great
> as of last night.  This morning, it will not show the data -- it's showing
> no rows.   I've made no changes to the database since the last time I put
> in
> new data using this combo box.
>
>
> The union query itself works fine -- I pasted the sql into a new query and
> it shows the correct data.   Each half of the union query works fine.
>
> The combo box works fine with a different backend, but not the one I need
> to
> use now.
>
>  I did a compact and repair on the "bad" backend -- no change.
>
> I've deleted the links to the tables and relinked the backend -- no change.
>
> I've imported all the tables into a new mdb -- no change.
>
> I've taken the tables from the "working" version that are common to both
> and
> the specific tables from the "bad" backend and combined them into a new
> mdb -- no change.
>
> I've tried using Access2003 -- no change.
>
> None of the records in the backend looks screwed up.
>
>
> I'm afraid my only option now is to create a new backend from the version
> that works and re-enter all the data.
>
> Does anyone have any other suggestion?
>
>
> Thanks
> Carolyn Johnson
> St Louis, MO
>
>



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