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Combo Box Crisis....

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ColinN

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Apr 28, 2003
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Hello, My name is Colin and i have a problem with Access 97 Combo Boxes.
I want to make my database to take the results of one combo box choice and use that selection to alter the list of choices in combo box 2.
I have two tables in my database. These are Main and Sheet1.

Main -
Name
Regional Centre
Comments
Date

Sheet1 -
Name
Region

I hope that someone has some ideas as to how i can sort this out.

i tired to write code using the expression builder and have managed to create this:

SELECT Sheet1.Field3 FROM Main INNER JOIN Sheet1 ON Main.[Relationship Manager Centre] = Sheet1.Region WHERE ((([Forms]![Main]![Regional Centre]) Like [Sheet1]![Region]));

unfortunately this does not work as expected. Any ideas?
 
You could try to requery the 2nd combo box using the on_change event of the 1st.
 

SELECT DISTINCT[Second Table Name].Column Name

FROM[The Name of your second table]

WHERE(([Your Second Table Name].Your Link Column To the
First table)=[FORMS]![The Name Of The Form That
Contains the First Combo Box]![The Name Of your
First Combo Box]))

ORDER BY[Name of the Second Table].The name of the field
you want to display in the second combo box]
 
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