[AccessD] Acc97: Creating GUID Autonumber using VBA code...

> I'm guessing that the
> constant is dbUniqueIdentifier.
No, such constant doesn't exist.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Fuller" <artful at rogers.com>
To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 9:58 PM
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Acc97: Creating GUID Autonumber using VBA code...


> Within the GUI it's UniqueIdentifier, not AutoNumber. I'm guessing that
the
> constant is dbUniqueIdentifier.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Shamil
> Salakhetdinov
> Sent: February 10, 2003 1:38 PM
> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Acc97: Creating GUID Autonumber using VBA code...
>
> Charlotte,
>
> It wrote Autonumber not "autoincrement" - and I tried to use
dbAutoIncrField
> attribute just by analogy because this is a an attribute, which marks
dbLong
> as Autonumber...
>
> > but I wasn't aware you could assign
> >  a default value to it
> You can assign to a field programmatically all of the properties you see
on
> General tab of a table design view and more...
>
> But what they (MS) do to create Autonumber GUID is still a puzzle for
me...
>
> Anybody knows the answer?
>
> TIA for any additional info,
> Shamil
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charlotte Foust" <cfoust at infostatsystems.com>
> To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 7:39 PM
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] Acc97: Creating GUID Autonumber using VBA code...
>
>
> > Can you create a GUID like that?  I know you can create the field, but I
> > wasn't aware you could assign a default value to it, and I didn't think
> > there was any such thing as "autoincrement" for GUIDs because they're
> > supposedly unique by definition and aren't meaningful data anyhow.  I
> > haven't worked with them in several years but when I did I found them
> > pesky creatures that pretty much did as they pleased.
> >
> > Charlotte Foust
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Shamil Salakhetdinov [mailto:shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru]
> > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 6:15 AM
> > To: AccessD
> > Subject: [AccessD] Acc97: Creating GUID Autonumber using VBA code...
> >
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Is the subj described somewhere? Should I RTFM with more attention and
> > accuracy? The following code doesn't produce desired result:
> >
> >     Dim dbs As DAO.Database
> >     Dim tdf As DAO.TableDef
> >     Dim fld As DAO.Field
> >
> >     Set dbs = CurrentDb
> >     Set tdf = dbs.TableDefs("tblTest")
> >     Set fld = tdf.CreateField("fldTest", dbGUID, 16)
> >     fld.Properties("DefaultValue") = "GenGUID()"
> >     tdf.Fields.Append fld
> >
> > dbAutoIncrField value for Attributes property can't be used at all
> > producing error 3001 - Invalid argument Any solutions?
> >
> > TIA,
> > Shamil
> >
> > --
> > e-mail: shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru
> > Web: http://www.smsconsulting.spb.ru/shamil_s
> >
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