Tables in Access don't have triggers, which it sounds like you're trying to
get (i.e., have the table recognize that something has happened).
.... but that's exactly what a Form would be able to do. Forms have a rich
'event environment', where Tables are merely "buckets o' data".
Good luck!
Regards
Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Access MVP
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Alex
If you're working directly in the table, stop now! Access tables may
resemble Excel spreadsheets, but they are only data containers.
To do the kind of thing you're describing, use the tool designed to do
that
... an Access form.
What's your objection to "creating another object"?
If your table only holds "temporary data", why use a table at all? Could
you use the query that generates the data?
More info, please...
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Microsoft Access MVP
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Refresh Table
Hello,
I have a table with a Boolean/checkbox field.
Users can check this field when they want to include particular
records in a subsequent query that’s run from a popup form.
It works fine, but the query does not recognize the last check that’s
made by the user.
I need to somehow refresh (I’ve tried to repaint the table object) the
table so that the last check is recognized by Access.
The user can obviously move his/her cursor off the checked field, but
I’d like to add code so that’s not required.
Some suggestions might be to use a form instead of table, but I’d like
to avoid creating another object and my table only holds temp data.
Thanks,
alex
Thanks for helping Jeff…
I have a form that helps users write queries to ORACLE tables.
When a query finishes, a table will open under the popup form and the
user can look at the table and decide what records he/she might want
to include for the next query (multi-step process).
I’ve been using this method for over a year and it works great…I just
added a field, however, to exclude/include certain records (as I
described in my original post). Users simply click a record (first
field) to include it in the next query. The only problem is that if
the user does not click-off the last field, the table does not
recognize the value as true/false.
I don’t want to create another object because I need my one form to be
a nimble as possible (I have to send it to multiple users).
I don’t have your expertise, but I really think a table will suffice
in this situation (rather than a form bound to a table).
Maybe I don’t have a choice; maybe I cannot programmatically get the
table to recognize the last check without forcing some kind of after
update event.
Thanks again,
