Problem forcing users to use a certain combobox first

[kc-mass]

Hi

I have a form designed to allow the manipulation of employee data
(assignments types, commission types and levels etc. The first thing a user
has to do is select the employee from a combo box whereupon the form fills
in with the current data. There are then 6 unbound combo boxes that
manipulate the current data by offering new selections and then in the
afterupdate event filling in fields through the application of formulas and
data transfers to the bound fields.

The problem is that when the user does not first select an employee but
instead starts with the field options in the other combos, access wants to
create a new record and once it does the employee cant' be selected util the
unwanted record is saved which I don't want to do - its trash.. I tried
intercepting the other combos in their before update, onclick and gotfocus
events but I get a strange error message of "The expression On Got Focus you
entered as the event property setting produced the following error:
Procedure declaration does not match description of event or procedure
having the same name." It then goes on to say that there may be a missing
reference or mispelled procedure name. Access created all the procedure
names and there are no missing references.

I've thought of simply hiding the other combos until they pick an employee
but that seems a little goofy.

Any ideas or smart options?

Thanks

Kevin

Any ideas

 

[Larry Linson]

Define the Enabled property of the controls on the Form to No/False. Set
them to Yes/True only when the user has chosen an employee (check in the
After Update event of the Combo). There's nothing goofy about that. Or,
alternatively, have a form on which the only Control is a Combo to select an
employee, and use it with DoCmd.OpenForm with a WhereCondition to open the
form for Editing the Employee... use LimitToList on that original Combo, and
verify that there was a record in the Load event of the Form for editing.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Office Access MVP

 

[kc-mass]

Thanks Larry

Kevin

Define the Enabled property of the controls on the Form to No/False. Set
them to Yes/True only when the user has chosen an employee (check in the
After Update event of the Combo). There's nothing goofy about that. Or,
alternatively, have a form on which the only Control is a Combo to select
an employee, and use it with DoCmd.OpenForm with a WhereCondition to open
the form for Editing the Employee... use LimitToList on that original
Combo, and verify that there was a record in the Load event of the Form
for editing.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Office Access MVP

 

[kc-mass]

Larry

I put code in the on open event of the form to switch the othercombo boxes
enabled property to "No". - Me.cboJobType.Enabled = False.

I get the same error I expressed before but now it references the on open
event.

Ideas

 

[Larry Linson]

Controls have not been created at Open time so you cannot set them. You need
to use the Load event, as I think I said in my earlier post. But my
suggestion was to _define_ those combo boxes as "Enabled: No", then in the
After Update of the Employee Select Combo, verify that a record was chosen,
and, if so, set each of them Enabled.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Office Access MVP

 

[kc-mass]

Hi Larry

I rebuilt the form from scratch and now everything works. I guess there was
some sort of corruption??

Kevin

 

[Larry Linson]

Yes, that seems probable. I'm glad you solved the problem.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Office Access MVP