I have an unbound text box on my form which the admin can enter a date of when records were last updated. I want this date to be copied to a label after pushing a button so that it holds the date instead of it do disappear after closing the form.
does anyone know if this is possible and how it is possible?
For creating a variable that can be used AFTER the form is closed:
Create a new module (in code window, click 'Insert | Module'
Insert the variable name(s) and types you want available everywhere. i.e.
Global dtLastUpdated As Date
Global strSaveSomeName As String
Save the module as mdl_Globals
Add code wherever needed to set the variable, then can reference anywhere.
If for use during the form, use the following: where 'lblForUnbound' is the Label field and 'txtUnbound' is your unbound text box
Me.lblForUnbound.Caption = Me.txtUnbound.Text
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I have a form that takes in a class number, and then displays the class roster for the given class.
I am new to Access, so this may be a simple question, but how can I use a Button that is called Find Class that can be pressed so the user can change the class number?
Right now, I have ClassNbr as a field in my query, and then I am using that field in my report as an unbound textbox. It has a default value that is automatically displayed when the form is opened. Is there a way I can use a button to edit this ClassNbr field?
I'm trying to update an unbound text box in a form I'm building.
The text box has a default value which is: =DLookUp("[Metadata]![Username]";"[Metadata]").
When the value in the field username is changed;
how do I update this change in the text box without closing the whole form and then opening it again?
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I've tried to to do this by adding a button in the form and then on mouse up event try and either by vba or the macro editor find a solution.
It would supposedly be possible to create a macro that will close and then open the form again but it's not really what I'm looking for.
VBA: I found lots of suggestions for requery but I couldn't get this to work:
Set UserName = Forms![Update test]!Text10
UserName.Requery
A general solution that could work with multiple such text boxes is preferable
(but not required, anything that tries to point me in the right direction is welcome).
Go to the design view and select the textbox which represents your table value username, then go to events and select the On Change() event:
Private Sub username_Change()
YourTextbox.Value =DLookUp("[Metadata]![Username]";"[Metadata]")
End Sub
I'm quite new to VBA and I've been looking around but cannot seem to find a solution to my problem.
I have made a navigation form (frmNavigation) with 3 buttons, each referring to a different form, let's call them frm1, frm2 and frm3. In the navigationform the control buttons to switch between tabs are all named differently (btn1, btn2, btn3), but the subform that shows either frm1, frm2, or frm3 has the same name: “NavigationSubform” (this shows a different form depending on which tab is clicked on, based on the 'navagation target name' referring to frm1, frm2 and frm3).
When I want to refer to a textbox (txtBox1) on form 1 (first tab) and insert a value i can do this by:
Forms!frmNavigation!NavigationSubform.Form!txtBox1.Value = "insert awesome text"
But how would I refer to txtbox10 on the second tab (frm2)? Just using the following does not work:
Forms!frmNavigation!NavigationSubform.Form!txtBox10.Value
You then get the error 2465 (can't find the field).
I’ve been trying many different things, but can’t seem to get it right. So how do I refer to a textbox on a different tab than the first one?
Help us much appreciated!
Only one subform can be loaded at once. So you've just got to break this process into two steps.
Store the value from txtBox1 somewhere outside of the NavigationSubforms (a textbox on the parent form with visible = no, a global variable or a table works).
In frm2's On Load event, set txtbox10 to be the value you stored.
Just note, that you will need to add conditions in the On Load event if you want to avoid that textbox being set to an empty string or a wrong value if you have a setup where your filter is changing.
I have three combo box controls(MFG, Code, and GrpID) in my VBA access form. Once the user selects an option from the first combo box (MFG), rest of combo boxes give me available options. But I need to do some validation i.e. what if the user decided to change the value of first combo box? The values of rest combo box should be cleared. All I need to do is once the first combo box is changed the second and third combo box need to be cleared out or at least set to focus on them so that users will realize that they can't use old values as first value is cleared in the first combo box. I added a code block 'AfterUpdate for first combo box as shown below:
Private Sub MFG_AfterUpdate()
Code.Value = " "
GrpID.Value = 0
End Sub
The problem after writing above code is: they don't get empty until they(Code and GrpID) get clicked. In other words, I need to click them to empty them every time I change the value of MFG. Can anyone direct me how do I clear them or at least focus them?
Set the combo to null to wipe any displayed value in them;
Me.Code = Null
Me.GrpID = Null
This assumes your combo controls are called the same as your field names.
Edit for clarity: Including the Me. makes sure your are changing the form control values. If your field names are the same as the controls then Access will change the underlying field values, and as you have discovered on your form these aren't reflected until you click in that fields bound control.
I realise this question has been asked before and I have tried numerous suggestions, but I guess I am just too much of a novice when it comes to VBA coding.
Here is my scenario:
I have an Access 2007 "Application" with a few forms. On the main form, I have 2 text boxes. For simplicity let's call them textbox1 and textbox2.
textbox1 is used to enter a style code. a button on the main form then opens another in modal/dialog mode and runs a query with the style code as the where clasue. the modal popup gives me a list box which is populated from the database based on the query that was passed. I then need to select one of the products in the list and upon closing the popup, populate textbox2 with the brand (column2 in the list from the popup) number.
Please remember that I am a novice. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I would put a button on the second form, and in the _Click() function, put something like this
If ListBox1.ListIndex = -1 Then
MsgBox "Nothing Selected!"
Exit Sub
End If
UserForm1.TextBox1.Text = ListBox1.List(ListBox1.ListIndex)
Unload Me
Where ListBox1 is the list box containing the content you need the user to select from, where UserForm1 is the name of the calling form, and TextBox1 is the name.
Explanation
The ListIndex property of the list box returns the index of the selected list item. If nothing is selected, it returns a -1.
To reference an item on one from from another, you reference the form, the object and the property.
In The example I gave, the form is UserForm1, the object is TextBox1 and the Property is Text. While typing, intellisense should auto complete the object and properties once you type the period.