[AccessD] Odd Form Behavior

It sounds like it is going into a loop because you are trying to do another save during a save.

What happens if you  get rid of the OnDirty event and  change the  Save button event to:

If Me.Dirty Then Me.Dirty = False

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Stuart


On 25 Dec 2011 at 10:10, Rocky Smolin wrote:

> Dear List:
>  
> I have a form in an Access 2003 app exhibiting some odd behavior.  The form
> is bound to one table.  When anything on the form is changed, the form seems
> to lock - that is, you cannot move to another record using the navigation
> buttons.  Before making a change, the navigation buttons work.
>  
> I put a 'Save' button on the form with the one line in the click event
> DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdSaveRecord which generates the unhelpful error 'Run
> Time Error 2501 - The RunCommand action was canceled.'
>  
> If I put 'DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdSaveRecord' in the dirty event, it saves the
> record but the navigation buttons are still not functional and I can't go to
> design view.
>  
> Further, clicking 'View' and 'Design View' does not work at this point. I
> have to click the 'Exit' command button on the form or File-->Close. If I
> use the close button of the form I get a message "You can't save this record
> at this time." although the record was saved because I added
> 'DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdSaveRecord' to the dirty event.
>  
> To eliminate the possibility that my installation of Access on this machine
> got hosed, I moves the app and back end to a second machine and got the same
> results. 
>  
> I would prefer not to use the save on the dirty event because I have an undo
> button that the user likes.  But I think if someone can lead me a solution
> of the navigation button thing, this will solve the save problem.
>  
> Any ideas?  I'm stumped.
>  
> MTIA
>  
> Rocky Smolin
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