[AccessD] Help on entering data -- when to do it?

[Stuart McLachlan]

I use.a form of Jake's GetUserName API call to get the usernae.

There are a couple of ways to use it.

You can set it is the Before_Insert or Before_Update form event (depending on whether you 
want to know who originally created the record who last modifed the record.

Alternatively, you can have a text box  on your form bound to the ID and set it's default value 
to "=GetUserName()".  You can use any combination of Enabled/Locked/Visible for the 
textbox accordiing to your requireents.

Personally, I tend to use the latter ethod.



On 23 Dec 2019 at 22:04, Bob Walsh wrote:

> John,
> 
> If you get the userid when you start the application and store it in a
> Tempvars, it will be available for you to use everywhere in the
> application.
> 
> Bob
> 
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> data -- when to do it?
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> Hey All! There are probably many people here who many not remember me.
> It has been a very long time since asking any questions here. This is
> because, (A) because of the list I became quite proficient, and (B) I
> haven't worked with Access in a very long time -- I've done some
> little stuff here and there, but no programming in a while. I now
> inherited one of my favorite tasks (I'm being very sarcastic here) and
> I am fixing the code of someone who is a non-programmer and wrote code
> that a department now wants to use.
> 
> Maybe it is because I have become rusty, but I now find myself needing
> some help. I've got it mostly working, but I have one little issue at
> the moment -- I added a field to find the user ID of the person logged
> in, and I want to be able to put that in the record, so we can track
> who made the entry. I initially did this for the onOpen event of the
> form, but now I am unable to turn off filtering and scroll through all
> the records. I can hit ESC and then do this, but I don't want the user
> to have to do this. So I'm thinking I need to assign that field
> elsewhere -- perhaps OnDirty? That is what I am asking -- at what
> point should I be putting this in? I never used the even OnDirty in
> all the years I programmed -- don't know why; just never needed to --
> so I'm a bit shaky on what it means exactly. Or perhaps there is a
> better way to do this?
> 
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