[AccessD] Updatable UNION?

I wouldn't be quite that hasty, Gustav. You are of course correct that 
UNIONs are read-only, but you can certainly grab the PK, pop up a form 
that permits the update, and Refresh rather than Requery. I've done this 
particular thing several times and it works a treat.

Arthur

Gustav Brock wrote:

>Hi Andy
> 
>No, unions are read-only. If you can't go the update-behind-requery
>route, I guess you are left with the temp table.
> 
>/gustav
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>>>>andy at minstersystems.co.uk 18-11-2004 10:09:56 >>>
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>Morning all
>I've a continuous screen which needs to list two types of order in
>date
>sequence. These are held on separate tables. No problem, a UNION query
>does
>the job fine. However the user has to tick an order to say it's
>despatched,
>and then the screen needs to show that information, but the recordset
>is not
>updatable. Presumably this applies to all UNION queries does it? Does
>anyone
>have a way round this or do I have to go to extracting to a temp table
>and
>all that jazz?
>
>By the way it's not practical to upodate the underlying tables and
>requery
>to display the depatch info because there's a lot of data on screen
>and
>requerying takes too long.
>
>--
>Andy Lacey
>http://www.minstersystems.co.uk
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