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Combo Box Record Number Limitation
I have a form that uses a combo box to search on part numbers. There are more
than 85,000 part numbers (records) to search on, and these are alphanumeric part numbers (data type is “text” in the table design). The combo box will not list/display all part numbers. I think I read that Access combo boxes will support up to 64,000 records or so. I have arranged part numbers by category. This reduces the number of part numbers to search on, but it means you have to know what category a part is in before opening the pulldown selector. I would like to be able to sort on all part numbers if possible. Suggestions? -- Mark B |
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Combo Box Record Number Limitation
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:20:00 -0800, Mark B wrote:
I have a form that uses a combo box to search on part numbers. There are more than 85,000 part numbers (records) to search on, and these are alphanumeric part numbers (data type is text in the table design). The combo box will not list/display all part numbers. I think I read that Access combo boxes will support up to 64,000 records or so. I have arranged part numbers by category. This reduces the number of part numbers to search on, but it means you have to know what category a part is in before opening the pulldown selector. I would like to be able to sort on all part numbers if possible. Suggestions? See: Combos with Tens of Thousands of Records http://allenbrowne.com/ser-32.html -- Fred Please respond only to this newsgroup. I do not reply to personal e-mail |
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Combo Box Record Number Limitation
One thing that I use on my combo box is a extra query. The combo box is
attached to a query already. But then I use the expression builder to query further based on what I am looking for, specifically. The only thing that I have not been able to figure out yet is clearing that query for the next, previous and new record. rattler0812 "fredg" wrote: On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:20:00 -0800, Mark B wrote: I have a form that uses a combo box to search on part numbers. There are more than 85,000 part numbers (records) to search on, and these are alphanumeric part numbers (data type is “text” in the table design). The combo box will not list/display all part numbers. I think I read that Access combo boxes will support up to 64,000 records or so. I have arranged part numbers by category. This reduces the number of part numbers to search on, but it means you have to know what category a part is in before opening the pulldown selector. I would like to be able to sort on all part numbers if possible. Suggestions? See: Combos with Tens of Thousands of Records http://allenbrowne.com/ser-32.html -- Fred Please respond only to this newsgroup. I do not reply to personal e-mail |
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