[AccessD] Droping trailing zero

Thanks Lambert,
My younger boss who is a little sharper in Access than I had this
problem some time ago when we were trying to printout labor recaps just
for one job that ended in zero.  Some of the properties of the text box
will even truncate it. You would think that if it displays correctly
then it would write that to the table ok. You can go into the table
directly and type it in and its ok. I was hopeful that there might be
some short code to make sure it was text and formatted correctly before
I updated the table. That table is just a one field one line entry to
hold the job number. I know I can change the report query to ask for the
number but I was hoping to solve this other problem also.

Steve A. Turner
Controller
Mid-South Engineering Co. Inc
E-Mail: sturner at mseco.com and saturner at mseco.com



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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Heenan,
Lambert
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 3:31 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Droping trailing zero

???? Scotland Yard is baffled! As am I. I just don't see how the *text*
is getting truncated like it was a floating point value.

Sorry to be of no help.

Lambert 

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Turner
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 4:16 PM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Droping trailing zero

Lambert,
 The Table NewJobNo has one field LongJobNum and it is a text field.  I
put the text box on a form with other controls and named it txtNewJob so
I could key in the number on the form and hit a print button and it
would write it to the Table NewJobNo as LongJobNum. The report reads
this table for the LongJobNum to print the sheet I need. I was trying to
not have to open the table, type in the job number, go to the reports
section and find the report and call it up to print. These job numbers
can start with an alpha char and still have .00 such as M501.00 as the
number. This is all tied to a SQL express table with all the jobs in
them. We have a custom timesheet program for our time that writes to SQL
tables and we use Access to do all the reports. I was waiting for our
programmer to see if he couldn't link to the report in access from the
timesheet program to do this but don' know when we will have him back.
In the mean time I was trying to simplify how I now get these sheets
printed. The timesheet is written in VB6. I've set the property of the
text box to Fixed, Standard, general all to no avail. Tried Auto, 2
decimal places etc.

Steve A. Turner
Controller
Mid-South Engineering Co. Inc
E-Mail: sturner at mseco.com and saturner at mseco.com



-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Heenan,
Lambert
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 2:59 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Droping trailing zero

Steve,

Are you sure about the data type of the table field? I just ran this
code...

Dim dbs As DAO.Database
Dim rstNewJobNo As DAO.Recordset
Dim Job As String

    Set dbs = CurrentDb
    Job = txtNewJobNo
    Set rstNewJobNo = dbs.OpenRecordset("NewJobNo")
    With rstNewJobNo
        .AddNew
        !txtJobNum = Job
        !LongJobNo = Job
        !DoubleJobNo = Job
        .Update
        .Close
    End With
    Set rstNewJobNo = Nothing
    DoCmd.OpenTable "NewJobNo"

(Note your code uses .Edit with no find method, so it gives a "no
current record" error )

The table I am using has three fields: txtJobNum defined as Text,
LongJobNo which is a Long and DoubleJobNo which is a Double.

When I run the code I get the following results in the table...

txtJobNum : 10.40
LongJobNo : 10
DoubleJobNo : 10.4

So it looks like your filed might be a double or single FP value.

Lambert



-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Turner
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 3:40 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Droping trailing zero

Lambert, here is what I pasted in to make a report print button for new
jobs. The txtNewJob is the textbox I set up to get the number on the
form. If I use a number not ending in zero it works.

Private Sub btnPrNewJob_Click()

    Dim rstNewJobNo As Recordset
    Dim strError As String
    Dim dbs As Database
    Dim qdf As QueryDef
    Dim rst As Recordset
    Dim db As Database
    Dim Job As String
   
 Set dbs = CurrentDb
  Job = txtNewJob
Set rstNewJobNo = dbs.OpenRecordset("NewJobNo")
    With rstNewJobNo
        .Edit
        !LongJobNum = Job
        .Update
    End With
    
    Dim strDocName As String
 strDocName = "rptProjectNumberAssignmentSheet"
On Error GoTo Err_btnPrNewJob_Click

DoCmd.OpenReport strDocName, acViewPreview
Exit_btnPrNewJob_Click:
    Exit Sub

Err_btnPrNewJob_Click:
    If Err = ConErrRptCanceled Then
        Resume Exit_btnPrNewJob_Click
    Else
        MsgBox Err.Description
        Resume Exit_btnPrNewJob_Click
    End If
End Sub

Steve A. Turner
Controller
Mid-South Engineering Co. Inc
E-Mail: sturner at mseco.com and saturner at mseco.com

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