Doug Murphy
dw-murphy at cox.net
Tue Aug 21 19:23:36 CDT 2007
Thanks Susan, For now I am going with Arthurs approach since it works and I need to get this done by tomorrow. It bothers me though that what should work isn't. I should be able to use a standard approach to developing forms and queries and have the same result all the time. When I get time I'll play with the queries some more. There has to be a reason why I get the errors. Doug -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 4:15 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Query Criteria problem Well, one last and totally off the wall, isn't a chance in he*l suggestion, try this: Delete the form reference in the query; compile and compact. Open the query and type in the reference yourself. If you get the same area, type in another reference -- open a completely different form and type in a reference to that form -- it will fail, but if the query isn't corrupted, you'll get a different error. At least you know whether something's corrupted. One final trick -- if you determine that its corruption and not the reference, open it in Excel. Be sure NOT to save anything, just use Excel to open it and then exit right away. I've seen this work, but only a few times and I can't give you any explanation as to how or why it worked. Good luck. Susan H. Hi Susan, The query just uses the value in one field on the form as its criteria. I tried rebuilding it and importing all the objects into a new database, but still get the same error message. To answer your question it appears, based on the error message that Jet can't resolve the form object, text box in this case, to get its value. The interesting thing is that what ever vba uses to get the value works in the Immediate window. Very frustrating. Doug -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 2:39 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Query Criteria problem That doesn't really help him tonight Arthur! ;) Doug, I can't remember -- does the query run on its own and the form screws it up? Which object is really causing the problem - the query or the form? I had this happen with a form/subform once -- it was corrupted and I had to rebuild it from scratch. I hope you find a simpler solution. Susan H. JC and I are on about this from time to time. My preferred approach is static functions, JC's is a class. Either way, free yourself from dependency on the form. Search the archive for "static functions" or "classes" and learn how to break free of dependence upon forms. -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.12.1/963 - Release Date: 8/20/2007 5:44 PM -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com