David & Joanne Gould
dajomigo at tpg.com.au
Thu Dec 8 18:53:57 CST 2005
Thank you to all those who offered suggestions. The solution I used was to
change to DAO. Below I have included a copy of the final module:
'************ Code Start **********
'This code was originally written by Dev Ashish
'It is not to be altered or distributed,
'except as part of an application.
'You are free to use it in any application,
'provided the copyright notice is left unchanged.
'
'Code Courtesy of
'Dev Ashish
'
Function fConcatChild(strChildTable As String, _
strIDName As String, _
strFldConcat As String, _
strIDType As String, _
varIDvalue As Variant) _
As String
'Returns a field from the Many table of a 1:M relationship
'in a semi-colon separated format.
'
'Usage Examples:
' ?fConcatChild("Order Details", "OrderID", "Quantity", _
"Long", 10255)
'Where Order Details = Many side table
' OrderID = Primary Key of One side table
' Quantity = Field name to concatenate
' Long = DataType of Primary Key of One Side Table
' 10255 = Value on which return concatenated Quantity
'
'Dim db As Database
'Dim rs As Recordset
Dim varConcat As Variant
Dim strCriteria As String, strSQL As String
Dim db As DAO.Database
Dim rs As DAO.Recordset
On Error GoTo Err_fConcatChild
varConcat = Null
Set db = CurrentDb
strSQL = "Select [" & strFldConcat & "] From [" & strChildTable & "]"
strSQL = strSQL & " Where "
Select Case strIDType
Case "String":
strSQL = strSQL & "[" & strIDName & "] = '" & varIDvalue & "'"
Case "Long", "Integer", "Double": 'AutoNumber is Type Long
strSQL = strSQL & "[" & strIDName & "] = " & varIDvalue
Case Else
GoTo Err_fConcatChild
End Select
Set rs = CurrentDb.OpenRecordset(strSQL, dbOpenSnapshot)
'Are we sure that 'sub' records exist
With rs
If .RecordCount <> 0 Then
'start concatenating records
Do While Not rs.EOF
varConcat = varConcat & rs(strFldConcat) & ";"
.MoveNext
Loop
End If
End With
'That's it... you should have a concatenated string now
'Just Trim the trailing ;
fConcatChild = Left(varConcat, Len(varConcat) - 1)
Exit_fConcatChild:
Set rs = Nothing: 'Set db = Nothing
Exit Function
Err_fConcatChild:
Resume Exit_fConcatChild
End Function
'************ Code End **********