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Order Form - Issue with Fields set up as combos
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Hope someone can help me. I'm trying to set up an order from in Access 2003 and being very rusty have been using a Microsoft template. I am setting up an employee ID box that I want to show the employee name: I have a qry (Expr1: [LastName] & "," & [FirstName]) that has added the first and last name together and it appears on the form in the correct format but I immediately get an error message : The value you added isn't valid for this field. I have set up the qry against the * not employee ID. The PK is Employee ID. I have the same issue with Customer ID. Am sure this is something simple that I have overlooked. Thanks Diane |
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Order Form - Issue with Fields set up as combos
On Sun, 16 May 2010 20:22:31 GMT, "DianeC" u60111@uwe wrote:
Hi Hope someone can help me. I'm trying to set up an order from in Access 2003 and being very rusty have been using a Microsoft template. I am setting up an employee ID box that I want to show the employee name: I have a qry (Expr1: [LastName] & "," & [FirstName]) that has added the first and last name together and it appears on the form in the correct format but I immediately get an error message : The value you added isn't valid for this field. I have set up the qry against the * not employee ID. The PK is Employee ID. I have the same issue with Customer ID. Am sure this is something simple that I have overlooked. Thanks Diane Bear in mind that the ID is almost surely a Number, and "Smith, David" is not a number and will not match an ID, and cannot be stored in an ID. This is true even if you've fallen victim to Microsoft's confusing "Lookup Field" so-called datatype; this will *conceal* the actual numeric content of the ID field behind a combo box displaying a name. Please open your query in SQL view and post the SQL text here. My guess is that you're trying to store the text into a number field but that's not clear. For one thing, you can't apply a criterion to * so I'm not at all sure what you mean! -- John W. Vinson [MVP] |
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