[AccessD] ComboBox Rowsource With 2 Field PK

Hi Michael

This requires, of course, that you _never_ (the dangerous word) will
have a CustomerName represented twice or more in the table ...

Personally, as you do have a unique key, I would follow the advice of
William.

/gustav


> Thanks for your reply Stuart & William

> Strangely enough, neither text field requires a value
> and can be a zero-length string.

> I was able to set the bound column to 2 and
> set the column widths to 0;0;1.

> Mike Mattys


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 9:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] ComboBox Rowsource With 2 Field PK


>> On 23 Sep 2003 at 21:23, Michael R Mattys wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Access-D,
>> >
>> > I have a table which cannot be edited per client
>> > instruction. It is linked into the current database
>> > as the customer table and has two text fields that
>> > comprise the primary key (Division and CustomerNo)
>> >
>> > A third field, CustomerName, is the one I would like
>> > to show in my combobox on my form in order to
>> > select a customer. I cannot, however, make one
>> > or the other the bound column as the customer name
>> > just disappears.
>> >
>> > I have tried Bound Column: 1,2 and 1;2.
>> > Doesn't work.
>> > Does anyone know what I must do?
>> >
>> > Mike Mattys
>> >
>> >
>>
>> You can only bind to a single column.
>>
>> Preferably, redesign the customer table and related tables so that
>> you key on a single field (see the archives for discussions on
>> natural v surrogate keys)
>>
>> Alternatively, you *could*  make the combobox unbound and set the key
>> fields in a before_update.