Doris Manning
mikedorism at verizon.net
Thu Feb 8 11:28:11 CST 2007
I never noticed the .datachanged property. I'll have to look into that one myself because it would make things a lot easier. Doris Manning Database Administrator Hargrove Inc. -----Original Message----- From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Perry L Harold Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 11:47 AM To: paul.hartland at fsmail.net; dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [dba-VB] Visual Basic Form - Check If Recordset/Field NeedsUpdating Paul For form controls (have only tried this with text boxes) I set the tag value to the value of the control when the form is loaded. When the focus goes away from the current record I compare the control's value to the tag value and if they are different set the .datachanged value to true. If any control has a .datachanged value of true then update the record with the new values. If they aren't different then no update is done. (The datachanged flag is set to true when the control is populated so it needs to be reset to false after populating the form with the selected record. Any keystrokes also set .datachanged to true - so no comparison is done until checking against the tag) You can copy the tag value to the log file as the original value for any control that has the .datachanged value of true and the control's current value as the new value. The field name, etc for that control could also be logged at the same time. Perry Harold Professional Testing Inc -----Original Message----- From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of paul.hartland at fsmail.net Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 2:26 AM To: accessd; dba-vb Subject: [dba-VB] Visual Basic Form - Check If Recordset/Field Needs Updating Importance: High To all, Firstly my appologies for cross-posting this on the Access site, the reason for this is I haven't seen much (well very very little to be precise) activity on the VB Group. I am after some advice really, basically I would like to know the best way to check if a recordset/field needs updating. Say if a user has a client record in front of them and doesn't make any changes I need to detect this so I don't have to bother to update any recordsets/fields, but if the user does make a change to any textbox/checkbox/dropdown etc I would like to detect this so that : 1. I can update the recordset/field 2. So I can create a log of the record the user changed (plus if possible the name of the field and what they changed it from and to). So any help on this will be appreciated, I have come up with a couple of solutions but the one seems long winded and the other, I just can't get to work quite right. Thanks in advance for any help on this. Paul Hartland _______________________________________________ dba-VB mailing list dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-VB mailing list dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb http://www.databaseadvisors.com