For some reason my number fields are all defaulting to 0 when I first create them. I can change the default while in the process of creating the field, but would rather that it not be automatically defaulted to that. I must have changed an overall default somewhere, but can't track it down. When I go to Options | Object Designers, I don't see anything that would default the values in a numbers field. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
I have searched for an answer on this, but can't figure out how to word the search because I am looking for a default for the default.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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I have an Access-based Employee table and have a field to hold username values. The username format for the application I'm tracking is FirstinitialLastname ("JDoe").
However, when I enter the username value in my Employee table, Access is automatically changing it to "Jdoe".
Is there a way for Access to accept what is being entered into this field and not change it? Searching online I see posts for how to turn on proper case, but for this particular field I don't want it to modify what I have entered.
In the near future, this Access database will be split in order to move the data out of Access and into SQL Server. Will the issue I'm having be alleviated once the data is stored in SQL Server?
Any guidance is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
You can stop Name AutoCorrect from Access Option. Microsoft article here in this link. Set name AutoCorrect options
When you type name like JDoe then after finishing typing, access automatically correct two capital letter and it show a small smart menu. From that you can also make changes to stop auto correct. See below screenshot.
I may be misunderstanding the use of Name AutoCorrect Options and the Perform Auto Name AutoCorrect tick box as shown above.
I thought this was the very handy feature that if you had a table originally called Customers (with an s on the end) and had built many queries or forms etc based on this, when you changed the table to Customer (without the s on the end), Access would change all your SQL statements automatically for you on the your queries etc so the database didn't stop working.
Apologies if I am wrong but just wanted to check of a knock on effect because you wanted data entry values to stop being changed too.
One fix may cause a bigger issue is all I am worried about. I recently had a customer with a surname of Teh but Access kept changing his surname to The automatically so I just unticked the box for 'Replace text as you type' to stop that happening. It seems to have worked well.
I really like the Name AutoCorrect option for table or query renames etc as I used to hate having to go in an change all my queries back in the day
Apologies again if I have got the wrong end of the stick on this discussion and gone off on a very unhelpful tangent by misunderstanding things in the first place - my wife tells me I have a habit of doing this and my wife is always right
I'd like for the Default Value for a Number field in table designer to be blank upon creation rather than 0. I'd found the answer and changed it before years ago, but can't seem to find the info currently for Access 2013.
The only way to arrange this is setting the default value to Null in the corresponding table.
There's no such thing as an application setting that will arrange this for numeric fields.
Oddly enough, when I click on one of the fields the correct date and time will appear, but revert to it's previous state (###########) once I click away.
Does any body know what could be causing this? I believe one of the queries is corrupting the DATETIME fields in this program. A query randomly broke earlier when it was appending information into a table, and clearing the table solved the problem.
Lol, widen the column display a little bit and then see :) Thats just because the display field is not wide enough. Its nothing related to the data storage itself. Applies to excel as well. Such a common thing.
I'm recieving the following error on trying to run an append query in access.
Microsoft Office Access set .... and it didnt't add... 779280 records(s) due to validation rule violations.
If I choose to run the query anyways, nothing actually happens.
To give some context, I'm simply trying to copy a populated field, consisting of values similar to "16-2009-02, 34-2010-02, et cetera" to another currently unpopulated field.
The fields themselves have no set validation rules, and both have the standard text field options.
I'm hoping to be able to simply remove those hyphens, and fix the issue. But I guess that's what I'm not sure about, are those hyphens actually a problem?
Running SP3 w/ Access 2003.
Thanks in advance!
Does the destination field have Allow Zero Length set to false or Required set to true? If it does, it is possible that some of the data from the source column is null or is set to an empty string. In addition, you should verify that the field sizes on the new column is equal to larger than the source column.
EDIT On appending from one table to another, you must ensure that you populate the columns that makeup the primary key of the destination table. Thus, from your screenshot, you need to include the loggerid and datetime columns from the "Log ID" table. Now, if there are collisions, Access should tell you how many rows generated collisions and let you append the ones that did not collide with the uniqueness restriction on loggerid and datetime
Make sure the target column is not indexed or, if it is, that duplicates are allowed. Access often makes indexing decisions on your behalf and sometimes they are not correct.
MS Access appears to support nulls in code, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to enter a null directly in a table. This is maddening because once a field has had a figure entered in it, it can never be deleted/set to null. Normally, allowing zero length strings would take care of this, but Access treats the XML export of a null and a zero length string differently. A null eliminates the associated XML tag and a zero length string sends an empty tag.
Does setting the "Allow zero length string" option in the table definition help? It may force an empty string to be interpreted as NULL.
Are you talking about needing to do it in Datasheet view? If you needed to do it in an update query, you can do it like this:
UPDATE test SET test.test = Null;
press ctrl-0 and a null is inserted.
Deleting all the characters will work, but Access is a bit fickle. Hitting backspace or delete will not work unless there are characters in the field. I find it is best to enter a few characters, select all, and hit delete, change focus and change the record. After all the above, if you run a query looking for "is null" the record will be found.
I'm actually looking for a way for a layperson to do the entry directly in a table. In MSSQL you can simply press ctrl-0 and a null is inserted. Deleting all the characters doesn't appear to work. Instead of a null, you are left with an empty string. They are not treated the same by Access for export purposes.
I think what I'm going to wind up doing is creating an xslt file to use during export that eliminates empty tags. That way the user can't really tell the difference.
It sure would be nice, though, to be able to key in a null.
Ok, I don't think this is an easily solvable problem and my original question was a little off target. The problem isn't so much with nulls, although they are involved, as with the manner in which the table was originally created. If you use an xsd file to create your tables you plan on exporting, something happens under the hood in Access that causes those fields to be treated a little differently than fields created with the editors.
The only solution I found was to create a new field in the table, rename the old field, copy the data from the old field to the new field and delete the old field.
After doing that, then blank fields that had data in them at one point are no longer included in the XML output. It's probably not the best way to do this, and I still don't know exactly why it's happening, but at least I can get past the issue.
Just delete all characters in the column and access will insert a null value for you if the coumn allows it.