NotInList questions

[M Skabialka]

Access97: I have a form where users must enter a customer number for the
Ship to customer and another for the Bill to customer.

There is a table with the CustomerID and CustomerName stored so that I can
use a combo selection for both of these items on the form. The customer
name is not stored but shows on the form in each case.

If the user adds a Customer ID not in the list in either case I
set warnings false
open the customer form
go to a new record
add the CustomerID from the main form
set focus to the name field

There the user adds the customer name and closes the form.

The a message comes up:

The text you entered isn't an item from the list.
Select an item from the list, or enter text that matches one of the listed
items.

How do I
1 - Stop this warning message coming up - I though DoCmd.SetWarnings False
would take care of that
2 - Update the customer name on the main form after the user has added the
new CustomerID and name to the table on the Customer form?

Thanks,
Mich

 

[VickiO100]

You need to requery the customer combobox either on form_activate or form_gotfocus. (Basically, when the second form closes and you return to the first form.) This will repopulate the combobox to include the newly entered customer info.

 

[M Skabialka]

I tried that but it didn't work.

I solved it by creating a new database using a wizard and found the code on
one of the forms. You have to do it by double-clicking. This works, but
thanks for your reply.

Mich

You need to requery the customer combobox either on form_activate or

form_gotfocus. (Basically, when the second form closes and you return to
the first form.) This will repopulate the combobox to include the newly
entered customer info.