Autolookup expression example

[Sarki]

Hi

I have 2 tables - postcodes and schools, joined in a 1-to-many relationship.
When I enter a school's suburb in the schools table, I want to have the
postcode automatically populate the postcode, where the suburb in the schools
table matches the suburb in the postcodes table.

I understand that I probably need an autolookup (I have tried dlookup but
doesn't seem to work?), but I cannot find any actual autolookup syntax
examples either on the Microsoft website or on Access help.

I would really appreciate a simple autolookup expression example so I can
work out where to go from here.

Cheers

Sarki

 

[Ofer]

if you enter a suburb then the dlookup should look like that
dlookup("postcode","postcode table","suburb='" & School Suburb & "'")

but if you have the school name and you want to find the suburb and then the
postcode:
dlookup("postcode","postcode table","suburb='" &
dlookup("postcode","schools","School nam"='" School name & "'") & "'")