Form Data Entry

[ye2127]

Can someone please give me advice on how to do the following in a form?

In my form I have a have the user enter a 1 or a 2 in a box for the first record.

I would like to know how I can make every following record contain the number that the user entered for the first record without having the user enter a 1 or 2 ever again.

I appreciate your help
-Yan

[MMcCarthy]

Hi Yan

If the textbox name was txtValue then in the AfterUpdate event of the textbox you would need to put the value in the Default value of the textbox as follows:

Private Sub txtValue_AfterUpdate()

   Me!txtValue.DefaultValue = Me!txtValue.Value

End Sub

Mary

[ye2127]

Hi Mary,
Can you please clarify? I wrote the code but the values in the text box of the subsequent records to not reflect the first value that was entered. Thank you for you help.

[MMcCarthy]

Hi Mary,
Can you please clarify? I wrote the code but the values in the text box of the subsequent records to not reflect the first value that was entered. Thank you for you help.

It will only work if the subsequent records are new records. If not then you will need something more complicated.

[NeoPa]

If you can say more clearly exactly what you want then we will see what we can do for you.

[brynne]

Can someone please give me advice on how to do the following in a form?

In my form I have a have the user enter a 1 or a 2 in a box for the first record.

I would like to know how I can make every following record contain the number that the user entered for the first record without having the user enter a 1 or 2 ever again.

I appreciate your help
-Yan

Sounds like a relationship problem. Without telling us a bit more about the data that you are trying to record, it is a bit difficult to advise you. Are you familiar with the concept of 'normalisation' ? It may be that you need extra/intermediate tables to record the data correctly. You can link all the necessary tables together using a query, then create a form from the query.

B

[MMcCarthy]

Sounds like a relationship problem. Without telling us a bit more about the data that you are trying to record, it is a bit difficult to advise you. Are you familiar with the concept of 'normalisation' ? It may be that you need extra/intermediate tables to record the data correctly. You can link all the necessary tables together using a query, then create a form from the query.

B

B is right.

Have a look at this tutorial and see what you think?

Normalisation and Table structures

Mary