I have a form in MS Access where a lot of queries are running to calculate all kinds of numbers using user input and using other queries ouput. All of a sudden I get the error below:
Error text is:
The record source ' ' specified on this form or report does not exist.
The name of the recordsource may misspelled, the recordsource was deleted or renamed, or the recordsource exists in a different database.
In the Form or Report's design view or layout view, display the property sheet by clicking the properties button, and then set the recordsource property to an existing table or query.
I don't remember exactly what I added/removed to have caused this and I can't find where the error occurs. How can I, I guess, debug my Access Form while it's running queries?
I don't see your image as it is blocked at work.
The only one way to debug the application when errors occurs is to break the execution using the keyboard combination :
CTRL + Pause/Break
Do it when the error message appears
This obviously doesnt work if the application is compiled in a mde/accde
When the CTRL-Break doesnt work, you have to add a break point in your code.
Bring the VBA window using
ALT + F11
Open the code of your form, go in the procedure that triggers the queries, select a line of code at the beginning and add a breakpoint using F9
Then run the form, it will stop the execution on the breakpoint and show you the VBA window, continue to execute the code step-by-step using F8 until the error occurs
When ever you change the name of a table in ms access for that has drop down list, go to the design view --> property Sheet--> Row Source and change the names to the corresponding names for the drop down selection for combo selection
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I have a form frmDetail that contains several locked fields I want populated only when another form has been filled out, in the name of having some kind of standardization in my data. This other form frmSignOut is used to enter in a date and location that will populate the fields on frmDetail. frmSignOut also contains a subform subULookup that looks up users from a different table using an identifier number. The resulting last name, first name and phone # should also be passed to frmDetail. I also hope to combine first and last name somehow into a Last,First format.
My approach so far has been to open frmSignOut modally with acDialog and I inserted Visible=False into the On_Click event on frmSignOut. Then I try to reference my subform fields and set them to the desired fields on frmDetail. I finish by refreshing and then closing the dialog form.
Private Sub CmdSignOut_Click()
DoCmd.OpenForm("frmSignOut"),,,,,acDialog
If CurrentProject.AllForms("frmSignOut").isLoaded=True Then
Set Forms!frmSignOut!SubULookup.PhoneNbrTxt=Me.ContactNbrTxt
DoCmd.Close (acForm), ("frmSignOut")
Me.Refresh
End If
End Sub
I have only been able to get this far, trying to pull the first field PhoneNbrTxt. I can get frmSignOut to open, I put in data and when I click my 'close' command button I get run-time error 438: Object doesn't support this property or method.
The line highlighted is where I try to reference my subform field. I also have a 'Cancel' button added to frmSignOut that just closes the form, I have no errors there.
Again I'm completely new to Access without much prior experience in anything related, I'd appreciate any knowledge you guys can throw at me.
EDIT: I've been able to successfully pull the value to Me.ContactNbrTxt by adjusting my code to the below.
Me.ContactNbrTxt = Forms!FrmSignOut!SubULookup.Form!PhoneNbrTxt
It looks like the missing part was the Form! right before the control name, along with formatting this correctly and dropping Set.
Im still trying to work out how to combine first and last name before also pulling those to frmDetail, if anyone can help there.
I have a report that runs from a query. The query does use a global variable but this is not the problem but needed for the explanation. The function for the variable is:
Function Var1() As String
Var1 = strVar1
End Function
The query where statement is:
WHERE (((IIf([MinOfDueDayMin]<0,0,Int([MinOfDueDayMin]/7)+1))<Var1()+1) AND ((tblEquipment.Retired)=False))
which uses the var1 function
The criteria is on a field that is actually a calculation and that is where I think the problem starts.
The report is run for a command on another form using the following code:
strVar1 = InputBox("Enter Number of Weeks for report")
If strVar1 = "" Then Exit Sub
DoCmd.OpenReport "rptEquipPmSchedule", acViewReport
Everything works just fine
On the report I have a double click event that opens a form. This form uses part of the same query. (not the same one but two levels higher) thiS allow the user to change things so i expect to use requery for the report.
If i double click and then not even change anything and then go back to the report I have #ERROR in the fields that have the calculations
i put a me.requery in the activate event of the report. this did not work.
So I tried a work around.
When I double click the report field, i close the report and send the strVar1 value to the form that is opened. then when I close the form I reasign the strVar1 just in case it is lost be an assignment by another user (currently I am the only one using this but did it just to be sure it had the correct value.) Then I open the report again but still get the errors. I did not expect this at all. thought starting the report from scratch would certainly work. I even closed the form just after assigning strVar1.
then in final effort. When I close the form I run the exact same code:
strVar1 = InputBox("Enter Number of Weeks for report")
If strVar1 = "" Then Exit Sub
DoCmd.OpenReport "rptEquipPmSchedule", acViewReport
Which will force the user to input the value for strVal1. Even though this is not what I want but tried this for troubleshooting and I still get #ERROR.
When I run the report for a form that does not have any of the same field, no issues. When I run the report or keep it open with a requery from the form that has the same data, the report will not give the correct results. Note that if I run the query itself, the data in the query is correct.
i also tried using a number instead of Val1() in the query and got the same results.
i also tried the refresh button in the ribbon and get Unknown Function Name and all the data in the report is lost.
Anyone got any ideas??
While your textual explanation is difficult to understand the entire scope, consider re-assessing your workflow. The entire objective is to allow users to run customized criteria for reporting. And your main issue is the strVal does not persist in memory so all references to it fails.
Consider the following points:
Have users set criteria on a dedicated unbound form with button click for report where that report instance is immutable for viewing/printing only and if needed to be changed must be re-run (i.e., button re-clicked).
Access has no need for VBA's InputBox() as strVal can be an unbound textbox on this unbound form whose value remains intact for all open windows.
Have function and all its references point to form field: Form!myFormName!strValuetextbox
Because reports on pretty much any software/web app system is not used as a GUI interface to run actions, users will know if they intend to change report criteria, close current report or go back to entry point and change strVal then re-click button to re-run report.
Keep data entry/input (primary use of forms) separate from data export/output (like reports). From developer and user standpoint this compartmentalization will save you headaches down the road.
I have a continuous form which displays a small amount of data from each record in my table ProjectT (i.e. project name, status) and a command button in the footer which I would like to open the selected record in its expanded single form (where all of the relevant info is displayed).
At first I set this button up using Access's wizard, but realized that Access opens a selected record by filtering the data on the form. The problem with this is that once the expanded form is opened, I want a user to be able to move to other records without having to select to unfilter the results. If I change the button on my continuous form to simply open the expanded single form, is there code I can run to make the form open to the selected record without putting a filter on?
Initially I thought to set the expanded form's (named ProjectF) default value to Forms!ProjectListF!ProjectID (where ProjectListF is the continuous form and ProjectID is the autonumber primary key for ProjectT), but this was not successful, I think because there is more than one ProjectID displayed on ProjectListF.
Another thing to consider is that I have another button on my Main Menu form which opens the ProjectF form in data entry mode to prevent the user inadvertently changing/deleting an existing record when they are trying to add a new one; I have no idea if this might be important when trying to find a solution to my issue.
I'm open to any suggestion--I have an okay handle on SQL, and have delved into a little VBA but am completely self taught. Any ideas? Thanks!
You can open the detailed form with this command:
DoCmd.OpenForm "ProjectF", , , "[ProjectID] = " & Me!ProjectID.Value & ""
I have a database that was create in Access 2010. We recently updated our systems to Access 2013. In Access 2010 I have no errors accessing a form object with
Form_frmName.txtFieldName.Value
However, when using Access 2013 I get a runtime 2424 error stating that "The expression you entered has a field, control, or property name that Microsoft Access can't find. I am accessing from a module.
The module sets these fields visible using
With Form_frmName
.txtFieldName.Visible = True
End With
before attempting to access them.
Has there been any changes in the way form objects are accessed between 2010 and 2013? Is this an issue others have faced?
In Response to #WayneGDunn's questions below
QUOTE:
I need to know exactly what and how you are using this.
1. You have a bound textbox named 'txtFieldName' on a form. As #brad asked, is there a subform, and if so, is this field on the subform?
2. You said the code is in a module, but is the code in the form where the field is defined?
3. Please explain where/what form 'frmQAtab' is (you said your form name was 'frmName', so what is the other, how related?)
4. Is the code in an event? Can you share the entire subroutine?
5. Have you tried creating a dummy query and using the builder to reference the field?
RESPONSE:
1. I have a form (frmMain) with multiple tabbed pages. frmName is one of those tabs, containing the bound field txtFieldName.
2. The module is run from the form the field is in.
3. My apologies frmQAtab is frmName, I just neglected to make that generic in my copy-paste.
4. The event is a button click. The button click runs a sub from a module. That sub makes visible the fields, runs a query based on user input (two date fields), populates the bound fields with the returned record set, then attempts to access them for processing (another query is run to process a complete other set of fields). To post the entire subroutine would be a bit more than I would ask you to chew on. This is legacy code I'm trying to fix, and it's rather large.
5. I have not tried a dummy query. Access is not my field (I'm mainly a C#, scripting, guy.) Is there some suggestions in this area you could give?
One of the following references to your fields should work. I created a form (named 'frmMain'), then created a Tab Control with two tabs. On the first tab, I inserted another form (named 'frm3197'). I also created a text box on the tab control named 'txtFieldName' AND in form 'frm3197'. From a button click on 'frmMain', the following will reference each of those fields.
Private Sub cmdButton1_Click()
Forms![frmMain]![txtFieldName] = Now()
Forms![frmMain]![frm3197].Form![txtFieldName] = Now()
End Sub
Code in Form onLoad:
country_combo.RowSourceType = "Value List"
Code in a reset function:
Dim lListIndex As Long
With Me.country_combo
For lListIndex = .ListCount - 1 To 0 Step -1
.RemoveItem (lListIndex)
Next lListIndex<br/>
End With
Code to populate country combo:
*For n = 1 To numCountries*
*countryCombo.AddItem (countryRS.Fields("countryName"))*
*countryRS.MoveNext*
*Next n*
I'm having a problem that occurs AFTER the code to populate the country combobox runs. The values are there as I can run Debug.Print(countryCombo.Value) and it prints out the name of the selected country, but I can't see the values in the combobox at all. They're invisible, and as far as I know there is no visiblity property for specific items, unless I'm completely mistaken.
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I think you should probably use Access's GUI tools to do what you're looking for. In design mode, click on the field you are trying to populate, then click the "lookup" tab. You can then specify a table to populate the field with and your forms should automaticly update as well.
I've also seen what you describe here - as far as I can tell, it's a bug within Access (I was using 2007) that only occurs when you programatically mess with the contents of a combo box. It does not happen every time. The issue corrects itself if you highlight the text that is in the combo box.
I am experiencing a similar issue with Access 2003. Based on the selection of one combo box, the row source of a listbox is set to an SQL string Basically a SELECT DISTINCT [MyField_Selected] FROM MyTable. For some fields the values are visible in the list box and others it is not. The values are there however as I can access them via code. To make it more interesting it works fine in Access 2007.
Just found the resolution on another forum. Check the format property of the field(s) in question on the table. In my case, when Access 2007 created the table, it put an # format in there. I removed that and all works great!