Charlotte Foust
cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Tue Jan 18 15:12:53 CST 2005
ROTFL, and you can get rid of them without a lawsuit, too! Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: Hale, Jim [mailto:Jim.Hale at fleetpride.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 12:45 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: RE: [AccessD] Need help with a combobox issue You need to watch out for those Union queries. They tend to run slower and slower until they quit working unless you provide them with more resources. Right-to-work queries are much better. ;-) Jim Hale -----Original Message----- From: DWUTKA at marlow.com [mailto:DWUTKA at marlow.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 11:42 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: RE: [AccessD] Need help with a combobox issue Glad to help. Gotta love those UNION querries, they make life soooo much easier! Drew -----Original Message----- From: Joe Rojas [mailto:JRojas at tnco-inc.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 11:23 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: RE: [AccessD] Need help with a combobox issue Thanks for the help Drew! This worked out perfectly. -----Original Message----- From: DWUTKA at marlow.com [mailto:DWUTKA at marlow.com] Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 1:41 PM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: RE: [AccessD] Need help with a combobox issue Turn the SQL for the combo box into a Union Query. Like this: SELECT EmployeeID, EmployeeName FROM tblEmployees WHERE CurrentlyEmployed=True UNION SELECT EmployeeID, EmployeeName FROM tblEmployees WHERE EmployeeID=Forms![frmTempData]![EmployeeNumber] That way, the top SELECT displays all normal employees, and the bottom select includes the one possible employee that may not meet the criteria in the top SQL. To fully implement, however, you will need to requery the combo box in the OnCurrent event of the form, so that as you move from one record to another, the 'current' employee is added to the combo as applicable. This will temporarily put the employee into the combobox's list for that record. Drew -----Original Message----- From: Joe Rojas [mailto:JRojas at tnco-inc.com] Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 12:12 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: [AccessD] Need help with a combobox issue Hi All, I have a combobox that is bound to a field. The field stores the employee number that is associated with the current record. The data for the combobox is pulled from a table and the combobox is set to limit to list. The list is made up of two columns, one for the employee number (bound column) and another to display the employee's name. The employee number column is set to 0" so that only the employees name is visible. Because employees come and go, I have added the ability to edit which employees are shown in the combobox list. This allows the addition and removal of new and old employees respectively. At the time a record is created the associated employee would have been in the combobox list because they would be an active employee. Some time after the creation of this record the employee may leave the company and would be remove from the list of the combobox but the record would still reference the terminated employee. If someone were to go back and look at this record, it would display nothing because the employee is not in the list. I added some code that checks to see if the Text property of the combobox is an empty string and if so look up the name of the terminated employee and set the combobox's Text property accordingly. The problem with this is that it generates a NotInList error and you are forced to undo the change in order to move on. Any ideas on how to work around this. 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