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morg27
If you are interested in a way to populate either a list box or a combo box with just the records you want to see, and select the records you want to see by entering a value in a text box, here is a method...
1. Create a text box which you will use to enter the search criteria for the combo box. Let's call it txtSearch.
2. Create a combo box which will look up values in your table. Let's call it cboSearch.
3. Open the SQL behind the combo box. In the field upon which you want to do the search, in your case LastName, put
Like Forms!yourFormName!txtSearch & "*"
4. In the forms Current event, put Me.cboSearch = Null. This will empty the combo box each time the form is updated.
5. In the AfterUpdate event for the txtSearch text box, put...
Me.cboSearch.Requery (so that the combo box gets requeried each time the text box is updated)
Tom
If you are interested in a way to populate either a list box or a combo box with just the records you want to see, and select the records you want to see by entering a value in a text box, here is a method...
1. Create a text box which you will use to enter the search criteria for the combo box. Let's call it txtSearch.
2. Create a combo box which will look up values in your table. Let's call it cboSearch.
3. Open the SQL behind the combo box. In the field upon which you want to do the search, in your case LastName, put
Like Forms!yourFormName!txtSearch & "*"
4. In the forms Current event, put Me.cboSearch = Null. This will empty the combo box each time the form is updated.
5. In the AfterUpdate event for the txtSearch text box, put...
Me.cboSearch.Requery (so that the combo box gets requeried each time the text box is updated)
Tom
ZmrAbdulla
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Hi,
Sorry to interrupt.....
I have a sample, contact me if you want to have a look
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Regards
Zameer Abdulla
Sorry to interrupt.....
I have a sample, contact me if you want to have a look
zameerabd@yahoo.com
Regards
Zameer Abdulla
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morg27
Okay, let's assume that you have 2 additional fields in the table through which you are searching. Those two fields would be RecordID and FirstName. Typically, the RecordID field would be hidden, so the combo, or list, box results would be something such as...
Brown, Cedric
Brown, James
Brown, Samuel
That would allow you to select the last name you wanted, by the match with the first name.
What you do from there on depends on what you want to do. Print a report, or something else? Go to that person's records?
Tom
Okay, let's assume that you have 2 additional fields in the table through which you are searching. Those two fields would be RecordID and FirstName. Typically, the RecordID field would be hidden, so the combo, or list, box results would be something such as...
Brown, Cedric
Brown, James
Brown, Samuel
That would allow you to select the last name you wanted, by the match with the first name.
What you do from there on depends on what you want to do. Print a report, or something else? Go to that person's records?
Tom
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