I recently switched to Access after working with Paradox for 12 years and I used compound primary keys a great deal. Nevertheless I will use autonumbers to get the form to behave properly.
My database is normalized. The relationship of employees to subforms/tables is 1-M.
I appreciate your...
Recordsources are:
Main form: tblEmployees, pk EmployeeID
Subform1: tblPayroll, pk EmployeeID-WeekEnding-Paytype
Subform2: tblPhones, pk EmployeeID-Phone
Both subforms are linked to the main form by EmployeeID.
I put 2 subforms on an Access 2000 employee form. Both are linked by EmployeeID.
The first is payroll data and the second is phone numbers. When I go in and out of design mode twice the phone number subform becomes a payroll subform and then I have 2 payroll subforms and no phone numbers...
Hi Gus,
I have used Paradox for 12 years and I'm setting up my first Access database.
I entered your question into Access2000 Help and did not get the AutoLookUp Query answer. Can you provide it please?
Thanks,
Sue
I don't know how to override the dataLookup action in the action event() or add code before the default behavior to replace the built-in lookup code with my own. Can you give me example code please? This problem has caused me grief for years.
I added 2 new fields to end of answer table to hold data selected by users who scroll a table displayed on a form.
Then I put the fields on a report. I did not see how to make WriteEnvironmentString() work. Then I decided I didn't want to use it in this case anyway because I want the selected...
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