I have searched high and low for an answer to this. Lots of places come close to what I need but try as I might I can't find exactly what I need. So, here goes. I have a combo box on a user form that reads values from a table. when a user makes a selection, depending on how far down the table the selection falls, I would like a textbox to display one of two strings. I'm currently using a toggle button which seems a bit 'clunky. I'm fairly new to vba so be gentle with me.
Me.textbox.Value = Me.combobox.Value
will give you the value of the bounded column of the selected row, usually the first one (e.g. if your combobox shows data like ID;LastName;PreName, it shows the ID)
If you want to show other colums than the bounded one, use
Me.textbox.Value = Me.combobox.Column(n)
(n stands for the column, beginning at 0 for the first, 1 for the second, ...)
So if you want to show the LastName of the previous example, go with
Me.textbox.Value = Me.combobox.Column(1)
If you just want to show the string when it doesn't fit in the combobox column, I'd make it like
If Len(Nz(Me.combobox.Column(1))) > n Then
Me.textbox.Value = Me.combobox.Column(1)
Else
Me.textbox.Value = Null
End If
There might be another solution, but this would be an easy one
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I created many option groups in MS Access 2013 and I am trying to populate my table according to what is selected in the option group. So, if the user selects option 1, I want "the text" not its value ex: "1" stored in my table. I tried the following code in AfterUpdate() event and it works fine:
Private Sub Frame49_AfterUpdate()
Dim D As Integer
Select Case Me![Frame49]
Case 1
Me![Name] = "text"
D = 1
Case 2
Me![Name] = "text1"
D = 2
Case 3
Me![Name] = "text2"
D = 3
Case 4
Me![Name] = "text3"
D = 4
Case 5
Me![Name] = "text4"
D = 5
End Select
DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdSaveRecord
Rem D = Frame49.Value
End Sub
but when the end user answers the first question and tries to answer the next question, all options of the previous question get selected. How do I fix this?
Here is the file to see what I mean:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WjrAhXCnk961mxBuxS3RYqOUpPA_GsyL
Thanks in advance.
even though the option group only takes numeric values, you can achieve what you want by hard coding the values using if statements e.g
If Frame5 = 1 Then orukolook = "okay"
If Frame5 = 2 Then orukolook = "right"
If Frame5 = 3 Then orukolook = "fine"
orukolook is the textbox control that you want the texts to be inserted, so if the first option of the option group is selected,the text "okay" will be inserted into the textbox control, if second option then the text "right" will be inserted.
The values hard coded in the place holder oruko look,e.g okay,right, fine are the labels associated to each value in the option group.
OptionGroup frame and associated buttons/checkboxes must have a number value. Therefore OptionGroup frame must be bound to a number type field. If you want controls to reflect selection in a text field, then need code to set UNBOUND OptionGroup frame with corresponding number value. In other words, convert saved text back to number value. Code would most likely need to be in form Current event. Something like:
Me.Frame49 = Switch([Name]="text",1, [Name]="text1",2, [Name]="text2",3, [Name]="text3",4, [Name]="text4",5)
Alternatively, save number value to number fields. Text equivalent is provided by labels on form. Use lookup tables to provide text equivalent on reports or calculate the equivalents with expressions in query or textboxes. An expression like:
Choose([Name], "text", "text1", "text2", "text3", "text4")
BTY, Choose() expression can be used in place of Case structure in your original code.
Me![Name] = Choose(Me.Frame49, "text", "text1", "text2", "text3", "text4")
Also recommend using radio (option) buttons instead of checkboxes.
Other alternatives are comboboxes and listboxes instead of option groups.
Advise not to use reserved words as names for anything. Name is a reserved word. Also, avoid spaces and punctuation/special characters in naming convention.
Frame49 is bound to a database field.
When the user clicks a checkbox, the field's value (along with Frame49's value) is set to an integer.
You then change the database field's value to a string.
This causes Frame49's value to be set to that string.
Since that is an invalid value for an Option Group, all the related checkboxes show as a solid black square, representing an indeterminate state. That is not the same as a checkmark, so your observation "all options of the previous question get selected" is incorrect.
The simplest way to do what you want is to use a 1-column ListBox instead of an Option Group. You can size each ListBox so that it shows all the options as text strings.
When the user clicks an "option" to select it, the corresponding text string will be written to the database, with no VBA code involved.
When the user goes back to a previous record, the ListBoxes will all show the proper selections.
If you don't want to change how your form looks, then you must do as others suggested, and make Frame49 unbound, i.e. set its Control Source to blank.
Then when you set the database field's value to a text string, Frame49's value will remain as an integer.
If you want the ability to go back and edit earlier records, you can do it but it is beyond what I can answer here.
I have the following pair of combobox that are used for two inserts in two different access tables from a single form.
The problem I have is that I am not able to make anything else load the form is selected both in Name_OT and in Year the first value that contains corresponding combobox.
I think the solution is with:
Combobox1.Selected (0) = True 'First value
But the combobox goes blank, no text or anything appears.
Solved with this
Cuadro_combinado79 = Cuadro_combinado79.ItemData(0)
Cuadro_combinado85 = Cuadro_combinado85.ItemData(0)
I have set a combobox to be visible in column1 of my Datagridview. Now I'm trying to fill same row of Datagridview where Combobox appears, from Combobox_Key_Down event. This is my code for showing combobox:
Private Sub My_DGV_CellMouseClick(sender As Object, e As DataGridViewCellMouseEventArgs) Handles MY_DGV.CellMouseClick
If e.RowIndex >= 0 Then
With My_DGV
If .Columns(.Rows(e.RowIndex).Cells(e.ColumnIndex).ColumnIndex).Name = "Column1" Then
.CurrentCell = .Rows(.CurrentRow.Index).Cells(.CurrentCell.ColumnIndex)
Show_Combobox(.CurrentRow.Index, .CurrentCell.ColumnIndex) 'function that shows my Combobox in that cells
Combo.Visible = True
Else
Combo.Visible = False
End If
End With
End If
End Sub
I tried many things, but I don't know how to determine in which row Combobox appears and how give that Datagridview row my Combobox values. Someone please give me a clue of what should I do. Thanks in advance !
The first problem with your approach is that the DGV can have only one DataSource: it can either show the m:m association table or the related elements. If you include columns from one of the tables into the query for display, the table becomes non updatable and users can be confused why they cannot edit something they can see. It seems of little value they way you describe it, since they cannot see the detail data until after they make a selection.
Next, it requires another datatable to supply the details for CboColB. Since you want the DGV bound to a DataTable easy updates, you end up having to poke data into cells over and over.
Finally, consider what the user is confronted with. Using a Country table (200+ countries/locales with ISO code and name) and a list of flag colors, a table for CountryFlagColors will have hundreds and hundreds of rows (at just 2 colors per flag).
A better display might be to filter the m:m table (flagcolor) to a selected item so the user is only confronted with the data subset they are currently interested in:
The datatable used in the DGV is built from the m:m table:
The Country column is hidden.
When they choose from the CBO at the top, that is used as a RowFilter to limit the rows to the relevant ones.
In the RowValidating event, when the country cell is DBNull, copy the SelectedValue from the country combo to the DGV cell to fill in the blank
I would probably really make the user click a button and manually add a row so I could seed the country value then rather than depend on events.
It uses a DataAdapter and after adding X number of flag definitions, da.Update(dtFlagColors) applies/saves all the changes.
Ok, so that provides the core functionality to assign N color selections to define the flag colors for a country. The missing element is the 'details' for the Color item.
I added a meaningless int and string item to the Color table, one way to display these would be to create an alias in the SQL with the important details. Displaying them as discrete elements can either make the query non updatable or invites the user to edit things they cannot edit here. My silly SQL:
"SELECT Id, Name, Concat(Name , ' (' , intItem , ' ' , stritem,')') As Info from FColor"
Then use 'Info' as the display member on the CBO column in the dgv:
dc = DirectCast(dgvCF.Columns(0), DataGridViewComboBoxColumn)
dc.DataSource = dtFlagColors
dc.DisplayMember = "info"
dc.ValueMember = "id"
dgvCF.DataSource = dtSample
The combo column has its own datasource of course, in order to display one thing and use another for as the Value to give back to you. Result (the values are silly):
It is not exactly what you want, but comes close and is much simpler. It also requires almost no code for driving the associative entity. Another alternative would be to use a DGV as the second picker so you can show the extended data and manually add rows to a DGV:
If you set the dropdown style to Nothing, it looks like a text column.
I'm programming in Visual Basic.
I have one form.
Form 1 contains:
nameTextBox
addNameButton
namesListBox
generateButton
week1TextBox
week2TextBox
week3TextBox
week4TextBox
The user needs to go to Form 1 and type a name in the text box, then add the name to the List Box. The user will add 4 names to the List Box. So, the ListBox will contain the names: Adam, Brenda and Carol.
When the generateButton is clicked, the 3 names have to be written to the text boxes in that order. So week1TextBox should contain "Adam", week2TextBox should contain "Brenda", etc... but once the last name (in this case "Carol") is written into the text box, the loop should start over. Ultimately, there may be up to 50 week text boxes (so week50TextBox). So the loop needs to repeat over and over.
As there is a lack of source code in your question, I'm really not sure exactly how the layout should look, I can only offer some advice/suggestions.
I would recommend creating your listbox control, input textbox, and button to add names to the listbox. In addition to these, though, also add a scrollable panel. (Not sure what the exact term for that control is in VB.net; it's been a long time since I've worked with that language.) Because it sounds like there might be a variable number of items on the panel, when the user goes to generate the list of names, I would use the following rough pseudocode:
Dim OutputTexts As New ArrayList ' This is only here if you want to work with these textboxes later
Private Sub CreateOutput() Handles btnGenerate.Click
pOutputPanel.Controls.Clear()
OutputTexts.Clear()
Dim NextX As Integer = 0 ' Pretty much unnecessary value, but included in case you want to mess with this
Dim NextY As Integer = 0
For i As Integer = 0 To Convert.ToInt32(txtWeekCount.Text)
Dim txtName As New TextBox
txtName.Text = lbNameList.Item(i Mod lbNameList.Items.Count)
txtName.Location = new Point(NextX, NextY) ' Play with this as necessary
NextY += 50 ' Play with this as necessary
OutputTexts.Add(txtName)
pOutputPanel.Controls.Add(txtName)
Next
End Sub
Again, this is very much pseudocode, so I would not encourage copying and pasting, but give it a read, make sure you understand all of it, and then try implementing something similar. There might be an easier way to do it, but I have not programmed in VB.NET in probably over 2 years (at least). Nonetheless, the most important thing in here is the following line: lbNameList.Item(i Mod lbNameList.Items.Count). By Mod-ing your indexing variable, you will be accessing items sequentially, and then repeating from the start of the ListBox items collection once i is out of range.
I would also encourage you to dynamically generate your TextBox controls as needed rather than manually adding in 50 or more TextBox controls.
I have a list view with two columns and I'd like to be able to save the value of the leftmost column for the selected row, or even better make it so that once the user clicks on either the right or left column of any given row, the entire row selects and not only the field that was clicked.
However I'm struggling to get the field saved which is more crucial than the row highlighting.
In a list box it would be
string = listbox1.selecteditem.tostring
However this doesn't seem to work for the list view. It won't even let me put "Selecteditem" and instead requires I put selecteditems, however this doesn't seem to do what I want either.
When I use the code:
string = ListView1.SelectedItems.ToString
I get the result of
string = "System.Windows.Forms.ListView+SelectedListViewItemCollection"
Despite the selected field actually being "EGG".
I need to have two columns so can't switch to using a listbox, although that seems like it would be the easier solution.
When I tried googling this question I could only find things for C#
Set FullRowSelect on to get the entire row to select.
SelectedItems.ToString refers to the collection of selected items.
SelectedItems(0).Text refers to the first selected item's text property.