Susan Harkins
ssharkins at bellsouth.net
Wed Dec 22 09:58:57 CST 2004
All true. :) Susan H. Susan, That certainly works but should be applied judiciously. Imagine 50 users in a form tabbing through entering data all day long. Each field is a combo pulling 5000 records. You would have a TON of database activity (and slow combo functionality) just to ensure that the user had the "most up to date data". In my framework, I have a NotInList that fires if the data entered is not in the combo already. If it fires, then I can decide whether to requery the combo or open a form and try to find the record. If the record is not found I move to the new record for new data entry. Either way, the data is pulled ONLY if the data being entered is not in the list.