Using a combo box to change dates

[JDDDDD]

edit - right scrap all that crap and letz start again. Its probz gonna be to diffcult to do dates problem so letz give this a try

I got a combo box that letz me select the course i am studying.

(Theology in film, Mythology and Judiasm)

Underneath that i got the time scales for each one like thiz

Theology in film

Date coursework given
Date 1st draft in
Date 1dt draft feedback received
etc

Mythology
Date coursework fiven
Date 1st draft in
Date 1st draft feeback received
etc

Now the way i has my form is that each section eg all the dates for myth are grouped together and the group is invizivle when the form first opens.

What i wantz you guys helps with is getting my form to make visible the group based on what i entered in the combo box.

Like if i entered Theology in film in the combo box, all the fields that are grouped together relating to theology in film will appear. but if i entered mythology then the fields for that would crop up instead

Respect experts

[slenish]

Check out this link and see if it does not help you

take care

http://www.databasedev.co.uk/filter_combo_boxes.html

[JDDDDD]

sorry dude but i dont getz it. that coding makes no sense to me. and besides i dont want a combo box to disable another combo box. i want it to disable a large number of fields and a few check boxes

plz help dude

[MMcCarthy]

You speak of the field groupings by which I think you mean groupings of controls on a form.

You cannot refer to a group programmaticall y. However, you can refer to each control. So for example, if I have a combo box "combobox1" and two text boxes "txtbox1" and txtbox2 I could do the following in the After Update event of the combo box.

Private Sub combobox1_AfterUpdate()

    SELECT CASE Me!combobox1
    
    Case "Value1"
        Me!txtbox1.Visible = True
        Me!txtbox2.Visible = False

    Case "Value2"
        Me!txtbox1.Visible = False
        Me!txtbox2.Visible = True
    
    End Select

End Sub

So what this does is if the user selects "Value1" in the combobox it makes txtbox1 visible and txtbox2 invisible. If the user selects "Value2" it does the reverse.

[JDDDDD]

ok sweet guy you rulez. using that coding i can do what i wantz perfecto now. cheerz

okz one last final problemo thatz i need solving. i figured out how to have its update when i open a form by attaching it to the on open thing for de form but when i switch between records it dont change.

I select Myth on record one and its all well and good but when i switch to record 2 it still set up for myth. and when i change the combo box to theology in film it updates all well and dandy but going back to record 1 its changed to represent theo in film instead of myth

Any helpz is all good ya know.

Respect

[MMcCarthy]

Post your actual code, it's the only way I will be able to tell what is happening.