Override form recordsource with filter

[Gerry Goldberg]

How does a form's FILTER criteria work? If I specify a query in the form's recordsource, and then in VBA specify a form filter criteria, does the filter criteria override what was originally specified in the recordsource query?

For example, in the form's recordsource, I have specified: SELECT * FROM tblA WHERE Account='12345' . Later in VBA code, I specify filter = "Account='98765 ' filteron=true. Should the vba override the recordsource?

What if I specify a criteria for the filter that's not in the recordsource? Does it get appended to the recordsource, or replace the WHERE clause in the recordsource.

I can't seem to prove anything one way or another, but I know that my recordsource isn't working right when I add the filter specification.

Thanks,

Gerry Goldberg

[OldBirdman]

VBA doesn't override anything. VBA allows you to set properties of objects, as well as manipulating objects.
Your object here is a form. The property RecordSource you are setting to "SELECT * FROM tblA WHERE Account='12345' ". I would assume that this means that you have a RecordSource consisting of one record.
The Filter property of a form applies that filter to the form's RecordSource property. In this case, the result will be an empty recordset. I would expect errors such as 'No current record'.
If you are always going to 'know' the Account, then RecordSource = tblA would work, and the record shown would be the one specified with Filter = '12345' or Filter = '98765'.