RecordSet and Ms Access 2007 - ms-access

Question

I have a query that has CustID with mutiple Business affiliated with the CustID. I can't use Dlookup because it only returns one variable. I want to show on a form that for this custID, here are all the businesses it's affiliated it. I want the Businesses to show up into a field (business) in another table on the form.
I started out by this
Public Sub OpenRecordset()
Dim db As Database
Dim rs As Recordset
Set db = CurrentDb
Set rs = db.OpenRecordset("Q:businesses")
Do While Not rs.EOF
T:Custinfo!business = NAME (I am lost in between on how to identify the custid and place the businesses into the table field as a Dlookup)
rs.movenext
Loop
rs.Close
Set rs = Nothing
db.Close
End Sub
I keep looking at other examples but can't seem to tie together where the dlookup replacement will take place and how will you have to put this on a form as a datasheet?

Answer 1

You don't need a DLookup. You could do one of two things:
1) Use a listbox and set the recordsource equal to your query (assuming Q:businesses has been appropriately defined to give the businesses as a result)
2) Still need your query to be appropriate, but you could create a string with all of the businesses in it:
Public Sub OpenRecordset()
Dim db As Database
Dim rs As Recordset
Dim StrBusinesses As String
Set db = CurrentDb
Set rs = db.OpenRecordset("qryBusinesses")
If rs.EOF and rs.BOF Then
MsgBox("No businesses exist for this Customer")
Exit Sub 'Or do whatever else you want if there are no matches
Else
rs.MoveFirst
End If
StrBusinesses = ""
Do While Not rs.EOF
StrBusinesses = StrBusinesses & rs!Business & ", "
rs.movenext
Loop
rs.Close
StrBusinesses = Left(StrBusinesses, Len(StrBusinesses) - 2)
Forms!MyForm.MyField = StrBusinesses 'Set the field equal to the string here
Set rs = Nothing
db.Close
End Sub
Of course this assumes that the query "Q:Business" is defined to get the appropriate info such as:
SELECT custID, business FROM tblBusinesses WHERE custID = X
where "X" is the custID you are looking for.
If you need to set the query dynamically, you will need to set a querydef.
EDIT to include querydef code***********************
Also changed the name of the query to "qryBusinesses" in the code above and below as I'm not sure whether you can make a query with a colon in it.
To set the querydef, put this at the beginning of the code:
Dim qdf As QueryDef
Set qdf = CurrentDb.QueryDefs("qryBusinesses")
qdf.SQL = "SELECT custID, business FROM tblBusinesses" _
& " WHERE custID = " & Forms!MyForm.CustID 'replace with actual form and field
This assumes that i) qryBusinesses exists already,
ii) custID is a number field
EDIT**************
If you define the query to look at the form itself, you would not need to set the sql, so if the query were defined (either in VBA or through the query wizard) as:
qdf.sql = "SELECT custID, business FROM tblBusinesses" _
& " WHERE custID = Forms!MyForm.CustID"
then you would not need to redefine the sql. However, it is a bit more dynamic to put the custID into the qdf itself as it is easier to debug any issues as you can see the exact sql that is being run in the original method.