Record bookmarking

[Dan2kx]

Good evening Peeps

got another question....

OK, i have a continous form with tick boxes, the idea is that (currently a single record) is selected and then that record number is used in the openargs for another form which goes to the bookmark for that record.... with me so far??

I would like to know if it is possible to bookmark multiple record(ID's) and then skip through then on the second form?

if this is possible how would one accomplish this assuming i parse multiple "ID's" in the openargs seperated by commas or such like....

Hope this makes sense (does to me)

Thanks,

Dan

PS, just had an interim thought... what if i changed the record source into a query (on this opening) and used the parse in a query (WHERE IN), any alternatives? would that work?

[ChipR]

I believe it would be easier to create a filter string from the selected records, and use that in the filter argument to the DoCmd.OpenForm.

[Dan2kx]

could you point me in a direction for this, never used filters... any good literature would do, unless you are really bored and want to provide me with an example...

Dan

[ChipR]

I'm sorry, filter was the wrong term. I mean create a string to use in the WhereCondition, which would filter the records in the other form.

[Dan2kx]

does it need to be formatted in a particular way? EG

Me.RandomID=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9

[ChipR]

Yes, but you will be familiar with the syntax :)
From OpenForm Method [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...fice.10).aspx],

WhereCondition Optional Variant. A string expression that's a valid SQL WHERE clause without the word WHERE.

[ChipR]

Now, if you are using this to open a form showing only records that are checked, I suppose you will have to loop through records to create the string. Here's some quick pseudocode so you can see what I mean:

Sub cmdOpen_Click()
  Dim strWhere As String
  [loop through records that are checked]
    strWhere = strWhere & "[PKField] = """ & record!field & """ OR "
  [end loop]
  If strWhere > "" Then
    strWhere = Left(strWhere, Len(strWhere - 3))
  End If
  DoCmd.OpenForm "myOtherForm", , , strWhere
End Sub

[Dan2kx]

Can you use

............. , IN (1,2,3,4,5,6)

then??

[ChipR]

Quite possibly, but I haven't familiarized myself with the syntax for IN yet. The code would be very similar.

[ChipR]

Sorry, in that code it should have been

..."[PKField] = """ & record!field & """ OR "

Going to edit that post, but wanted to point it out. Too much working on C++ lately.

[Dan2kx]

i'll give it a whirl then, i like WHERE IN, it looks prettier and is much easier than constructing all the = OR stuff, its basicaly the same

If using in SQL (from query builder) as a where clause simply

IN (LIST,LIST,,,,, ,,) etc

very good!!

Thanks for the help, and so speedy too!!!

[Dan2kx]

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