I am struggling quite a bit with ContentControl(s) in my Word VBA project.
There are a number of content control text fields which all have the same name (they have the same name because at the beginning the total number of required fields is not known, so I copy and paste the fields as many times as required). Now I want to loop through the content control fields and change the name of the fields based on the index of the individual items (e.g. first field in the document = "One", second field in the document = "two" and so on).
However, as mentioned in other threads, the index of the content control element does not correspond to its position in the document (I do not know, what it corresponds to).
Thus, instead of getting the fields in order, I get e.g. "four" --> "one" --> "three" --> "two" (or any other possible combination).
The content of the fields is coming from UserForm TextBoxes. The text boxes are named Text_Box_1 to Text_Box_4:
Private Sub Test() 'Note: The actual code is more complex, this is just to demonstrate my problem.
Dim i As Integer
UserForm1.TextBox1 = "one"
UserForm1.TextBox2 = "two"
UserForm1.TextBox3 = "three"
UserForm1.TextBox4 = "four"
For i = 1 To 4 - 1 'Since there are four text boxes in the UserForm in this example, the text snippet containing the text field gets copied and pasted three times; Note: Here the number of textboxes is pre-determined and fixed, in the actual project, it is variable.
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks(Index:="Copy").Range.Copy '
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks(Index:="Paste").Range.Paste
Next i
For i = 1 To 4 'This code is supposed to loop through the four content control text fields and insert text from the corresponding UserForm text box. However, content control text field 1, unfortunately does no correspond to UserForm.TextBox1 for some reason.
ActiveDocument.SelectContentControlsByTitle("Number").Item(i).Range.Text = UserForm1.Controls("TextBox" & i)
Next i
End Sub
Before running the code
After runnning the code
Is there any way to name to content control fields in the right order?
If not, what would be an alternative method to achieve my goals.
I think legacy text fields are not an option, since the document has to be protected; I have not looked into ActiveX text fields too much; Text boxes (shapes) might be another option, but they might have their own drawbacks.
It is really frustrating that the content control fields are behaving so weirdly and that something seemingly very simple and straight-forward can be so complicated (at least for me).
edit: Fixed a typo in the title.
Rather than use copy and paste I would insert the required text and content controls in my routine, something like this.
Private Sub Test()
Dim i As Integer
UserForm1.TextBox1 = "one"
UserForm1.TextBox2 = "two"
UserForm1.TextBox3 = "three"
UserForm1.TextBox4 = "four"
Dim cc As ContentControl
Dim rng As Range
Dim ccLocation As Range
For i = 4 To 1 Step -1 'Insert in reverse order to ensure that they are correct in the document
Set rng = ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("Paste").Range
rng.InsertAfter Text:="Number: "
rng.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
Set ccLocation = rng.Duplicate
rng.InsertAfter vbCr & "----------------------------------------" & vbCr
Set cc = ccLocation.ContentControls.Add(wdContentControlText)
cc.Range.Text = UserForm1.Controls("TextBox" & i).Text
cc.Title = "Number" & i
Next i
End Sub
If you cannot delete the existing content and must work with what you have then you could use the following:
Private Sub Test()
Dim i As Integer
UserForm1.TextBox1 = "one"
UserForm1.TextBox2 = "two"
UserForm1.TextBox3 = "three"
UserForm1.TextBox4 = "four"
ActiveDocument.SelectContentControlsByTitle("Number").Item(i).Range.Text = UserForm1.Controls("TextBox1").Text
Dim cc As ContentControl
Dim rng As Range
Dim ccLocation As Range
For i = 4 To 2 Step -1 'Insert in reverse order to ensure that they are correct in the document
Set rng = ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("Paste").Range
rng.InsertAfter Text:="Number: "
rng.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
Set ccLocation = rng.Duplicate
rng.InsertAfter vbCr & "----------------------------------------" & vbCr
Set cc = ccLocation.ContentControls.Add(wdContentControlText)
cc.Range.Text = UserForm1.Controls("TextBox" & i).Text
cc.Title = "Number" & i
Next i
End Sub
I am adding different arrays of strings to a RichTextBox and I want to insert pictures too. I searched for a method and they all say Paste it. I tried that but it doesn't work in a loop.
Dim df As DataFormats.Format = DataFormats.GetFormat(DataFormats.Bitmap)
for i as integer = 0 to 50
RTF1.text = RTF1.text & arr1(i) & arr2(i) & vbnewline
Dim bmp As New Bitmap(picarr(i))
Clipboard.SetImage(bmp)
RTF1.Paste(df)
next i
I also tried SendKeys because when I press Ctrl+V, it pastes the picture. Also, I tried to exit the loop and it pastes the last image only.
Every time you set the RichTextBox.Text property, you lose all the RTF data it previously contained (including formatting, images, etc.) and you're only maintaining the plain text (because of = RTF1.Text & ...).
Instead, use the AppendText() method like this:
Dim df As DataFormats.Format = DataFormats.GetFormat(DataFormats.Bitmap)
For i As Integer = 0 To 50
RTF1.AppendText(arr1(i) & arr2(i) & vbNewLine)
Using bmp As New Bitmap(picarr(i))
Clipboard.SetImage(bmp)
End Using
RTF1.Paste(df)
Next
I have a big table in ms-word that contains 85 contentcontrols (combo boxes). I want to change the content using a vba loop (see below). It takes longer than one minute for it to complete...
Are there other options?
Private Sub Btn_Clear1_Click()
Dim a
Dim c As ContentControl
a = FindTable(ActiveDocument.Name, "myTableName")(1) 'returns an array(Long) with number of table found
For Each c In ActiveDocument.Tables(a).Range.ContentControls
c.Range.text = "MY CHANGED TEXT"
Next c
End Sub
Thanks in advance for any hint!
Here, turning off screenupdating reduces the time from about 6 seconds to less than 1 second. e.g.
On Error Goto turnscreenon
Application.Screenupdating = False
For Each c In ActiveDocument.Tables(a).Range.ContentControls
c.Range.text = "MY CHANGED TEXT"
Next c
turnscreenon:
Application.Screenupdating = True
That may only work on the Windows version of Word.
If you know exactly how many combo boxes there are going to be, you could consider creating a custom xml part containing an array of XML Elements to contain the values. Map each content control to one of those elements. Then instead of writing the values to the content control ranges, write them to the XML Part and let Word do the work. That works almost instantaneously here.
e.g. in a simple scenario where you just have those 85 content controls in the table, you could set up the Custom XML Part like this (I leave you to write any code that you need to delete old versions). You should only need to run this once.
Sub createCxpAndLink()
' You should choose your own Uri
Const myNamespaceUri As String = "mycbcs"
Dim a
Dim i As Long
Dim s As String
Dim cxp As Office.CustomXMLPart
With ActiveDocument
a = FindTable(.Name, "myTableName")(1)
s = ""
s = s & "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>" & vbCrLf
s = s & "<cbcs xmlns='" & myNamespaceUri & "'>" & vbCrLf
For i = 1 To .Tables(a).Range.ContentControls.Count
s = s & " <cbc/>" & vbCrLf
Next
s = s & "</cbcs>"
Set cxp = .CustomXMLParts.Add(s)
With .Tables(a).Range.ContentControls
For i = 1 To .Count
.Item(i).XMLMapping.SetMapping "/x:cbcs[1]/x:cbc[" & Trim(CStr(i)) & "]", "xmlns:x='" & myNamespaceUri & "'", cxp
Next
End With
Set cxp = Nothing
End With
End Sub
Then to update the contents you need something like this
Sub testsetxml()
Const myNamespaceUri As String = "mycbcs"
Dim i As Long
'our start time...
Debug.Print Now
With ActiveDocument.CustomXMLParts.SelectByNamespace(myNamespaceUri)(1)
For i = 1 To 85
.SelectNodes("/ns0:cbcs[1]/ns0:cbc[" & Trim(CStr(i)) & "]")(1).Text = "my changed text "
' or if you want to put different texts in different controls, you can test using e.g.
.SelectNodes("/ns0:cbcs[1]/ns0:cbc[" & Trim(CStr(i)) & "]")(1).Text = "my changed text " & Cstr(i)
Next
End With
'our end time...
Debug.Print Now
End Sub
(NB you cannot do it by mapping all the controls to a single XML element because then all the dropdowns will all be updated to the same value whenever you change the value of one of them.)
Apologies for any typos - I've changed the code to be more in line with what you have already and have not tested the changes.
ISSUE: How to fix a Word VBA FOR EACH subroutine that seeks to insert a comment at each tracked change and, yet, will freeze VBA/Word at certain pages of a document and not other pages.
The below code works on some documents throughout the entire document. Other documents, unfortunately, will freeze at certain locations in the document.
I've F8 stepped through, for example, to find one document would freeze at pages 6 and 7 of a 22 page document. Strangely, however, I could run the code to insert comments at each tracked pages on all other pages.
Dim rev As Revision, txt As String
Dim pgno1 As String
Dim pgno2 As String
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
ActiveDocument.TrackRevisions = False
'check Revisions
For Each rev In ActiveDocument.Revisions
Select Case rev.Type
Case wdRevisionDelete
txt = Left(rev.Range.Text, 3) 'the deleted text
rev.Range.Comments.Add Range:=rev.Range, Text:="Pg [#" & pgno1 & "] BLAH " & txt & " [ ... ]“
Case wdRevisionInsert
txt = Left(rev.Range.Text, 3) 'the inserted text
rev.Range.Comments.Add Range:=rev.Range, Text:= "Pg [#" & pgno1 & "] BLAH " & txt & " […]”
End Select
Next rev
ActiveDocument.TrackRevisions = True
GOAL: Insert comment with specific text at each tracked change, throughout entire docxz
ERRORS: No messages. VBA and Word freeze, requiring restart.
I have never used Outlook VBA (2010), but my manager tasked me to create a user form that sends IT requests and IS requests. I have the custom form created, where I gather all my text fields and print the text to a single text box.
This action is all defined within Sub CommandButton1_Click(), which ends with Send(). Within the sub, I have something like this for all text boxes:
Set Sj =Item.GetInspector.ModifiedFormPages("P.2").Controls("Subject_Text")
Set YNbox = Item.GetInspector.ModifiedFormPages("P.2").Controls("YNBox")
Set Rbox = Item.GetInspector.ModifiedFormPages("P.2").Controls("ReasonBox")
What I want to know is how do I take the texts within "P.2" and paste it into the Message area of "Message" Page?
Here is the code snippet for the printing out to a single text box:
FinalBox.Text = "Subject: " & Sj.Text & vbCrLf & _
vbCrLf & "Can work around the issue?: " & YNbox.Text & _
vbCrLf & "Reason For Ticketing: " & Rbox.Text & _
vbCrLf & "Department: " & Dbox.Text & _
vbCrLf & "Impact: " & Ibox.Text & _
vbCrLf & "Urgency: " & Ubox.Text & _
vbCrLf & "System/Machine Number: " & Mbox.Text & _
vbCrLf & "Was trying to accomplish: " & Abox.Text & _
vbCrLf & "Has it occured before?: " & Bbox.Text & _
vbCrLf & "First Noticed: " & Tbox.Text & _
vbCrLf & "Others affected by the issue: " & Affbox.Text & _
vbCrLf & "Additonal Comments: " & Addbox.Text
So, how do I take this and append it to the actual message field in Message page?
.
Thank you very much!!
P.S. I've been having issues with MailItem.body and whenever I create an object, for example:
Dim objMsg As Object,
I get an error that says "Expected end of statement"... I understand VB and VBA is different, but I didn't think it'd be giving me this much headache.
Edit:
Hello dbMitch and Tony Dallimore, thanks for helping me clarify my questions. Like I mentioned, I am a mere beginner when it comes to VBA, and I Just wanted to
`Sub Commandbutton
Set Sj = Item.GetInspector.ModifiedFormPages("P.2").Controls("Subject_Text")
Set YNbox = Item.GetInspector.ModifiedFormPages("P.2").Controls("YNBox")
Set Rbox = Item.GetInspector.ModifiedFormPages("P.2").Controls("ReasonBox")
Set Dbox = Item.GetInspector.ModifiedFormPages("P.2").Controls("DepartmentDropbox")
Set Mbox = Item.GetInspector.ModifiedFormPages("P.2").Controls("MachineBox")
Set Ibox = Item.GetInspector.ModifiedFormPages("P.2").Controls("ImpactBox")
Set Ubox = Item.GetInspector.ModifiedFormPages("P.2").Controls("UrgencyBox")
Set Abox = Item.GetInspector.ModifiedFormPages("P.2").Controls("AccomplishBox")
Set Bbox = Item.GetInspector.ModifiedFormPages("P.2").Controls("BeforeText")
Set Tbox = Item.GetInspector.ModifiedFormPages("P.2").Controls("Timebox")
Set Affbox = Item.GetInspector.ModifiedFormPages("P.2").Controls("AffectedBox")
Set Addbox = Item.GetInspector.ModifiedFormPages("P.2").Controls("AdditionalBox")
Set Tbox8 = Item.GetInspector.ModifiedFormPages("P.2").Controls("TextBox8")
Set MESBOX = Item.GetInspector.ModifiedFormPages("Message").Controls("Message")
Tbox8.Text = "Subject: " & Sj.Text & vbCrLf & _
vbCrLf & "Can work around the issue?: " & YNbox.Text & _
vbCrLf & "Reason For Ticketing: " & Rbox.Text & _
vbCrLf & "Department: " & Dbox.Text & _
vbCrLf & "Impact: " & Ibox.Text & _
vbCrLf & "Urgency: " & Ubox.Text & _
vbCrLf & "System/Machine Number: " & Mbox.Text & _
vbCrLf & "Was trying to accomplish: " & Abox.Text & _
vbCrLf & "Has it occured before?: " & Bbox.Text & _
vbCrLf & "First Noticed: " & Tbox.Text & _
vbCrLf & "Others affected by the issue: " & Affbox.Text & _
vbCrLf & "Additonal Comments: " & Addbox.Text
Send
End Sub
`
Sub I found online that is suppose to take an item and append the text onto message body. There seems to be an error every time I try to declare the object's type (Ex. ____ As _____). I was not sure how to modify this to make it fit with my code, but the error is thrown at Dim objItem As Object that says
Expected end of statement
Sub TestAppendText()
Dim objItem As Object
Dim thisMail As Outlook.MailItem
'On Error Resume Next
Set objItem = Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection(1)
If Not objItem Is Nothing Then
If objItem.Class = olMail Then
Set thisMail = objItem
Call AppendTextToMessage(thisMail, "Some text added at " & Now())
End If
End If
Set objItem = Nothing
Set thisMail = Nothing
End Sub
Sub AppendTextToMessage(ByVal objMail As Outlook.MailItem, ByVal strText As String)
Dim objCDO As MAPI.Session
Dim objMsg As MAPI.Message
Dim objField As MAPI.Field
Set objCDO = CreateObject("MAPI.Session")
objCDO.Logon "", "", False, False
If Not objMail.EntryID = "" Then
Set objMsg = objCDO.GetMessage(objMail.EntryID, _
objMail.Parent.StoreID)
objMsg.Text = objMsg.Text & vbCrLf & strText
objMsg.Update True, True
Set objField = objMsg.Fields(CdoPR_RTF_COMPRESSED)
If Not objField Is Nothing Then
objField.Delete
objMsg.Update True, True
End If
Set objField = Nothing
Set objField = objMsg.Fields(CdoPR_RTF_SYNC_BODY_COUNT)
If Not objField Is Nothing Then
objField.Delete
objMsg.Update True, True
End If
Else
strMsg = "You must save the item before you add text. " & _
"Do you want to save the item now?"
intAns = MsgBox(strMsg, vbYesNo + vbDefaultButton1, "Append Text to Message")
If intAns = vbYes Then
Call AppendTextToMessage(objMail, strText)
Else
Exit Sub
End If
End If
Set objMsg = Nothing
objCDO.Logoff
Set objCDO = Nothing
End Sub
I've also tried using a CDO object, but it gives me an error that says
ActiveX component can't create object: 'CDONTS.NewMail'
Set Item1 = Item.MessageClass
Set objCDONTS = CreateObject ("CDONTS.NewMail")
objCDONTS.Body = Tbox8.Text
Item1.Message = "Hi"
I apologize if this seems very simple to others.. I just have 0 experience with VBA/VBScript and Outlook designs. That's why I'm here, to learn!
Please do not ask a question like this again. I do understand the difficulty of telling one’s manager that you lack the background to tackle a task. The typical response seems to be: “It is easy: just look it up on the internet.” In one sense this is true. There is nothing in the answer below that you could not find in other answers. What you lack is the background to identify the features you require and to fit them together to create the solution. VBA is not a difficult language but it has many significant differences from other languages that will confuse an experienced programmer new to VBA. The Outlook Object model takes time to master.
There are many online Excel VBA and Outlook VBA tutorials. I think the Excel VBA tutorials are better. If you are asked to perform a similar task again, you must insist on having the time to study first. These answers of mine might help:
Update excel sheet based on outlook mail
How to copy Outlook mail message into excel using VBA or Macros
I wanted to create a complete solution since I did not believe another snippet would help. You need: “This works. Adjust it step by step to your exact requirement.”
I am not familiar with custom forms and can find nothing that says what advantage they offer over user forms which work with all versions of VBA. I did not want to take the time to study custom forms particularly as I have code for user forms that I can easily adjust to your requirement. If your custom form is working to your satisfaction, replace that part of my solution.
There are five parts to my solution:
The user form.
The first part of the subroutine SendTicket() which loads the user form and calls it to get data from the user.
The subroutine UserForm_Initialize() within the user form’s code which builds the form from parameters supplied by SendTicket().
The subroutine CommandButton1_Click() which performs minimal validation of the user’s data and stores it for SendTicket().
The second part of the subroutine SendTicket() which builds the email from the user’s data and sends it to the IT department.
1. The user form
I inserted a new user form, adjusted its size and added controls. If you do not know how to do this then look at one of the tutorials that introduce user forms.
If I add a label control to a user form and name it X, I can, for example:
Move it by changing X.Top.
Display some text by changing X.Caption.
The user form includes a Collection named Controls. A collection is what most languages call an unsorted list. Within Controls there will be an entry for every control (label, text box, command button, etc.) on the form. If the label X is the first control on the user form, I can access its properties as Controls(0).Top and Controls(0).Caption. This means I can have code specific to label X that reference it by name or I can have general code that handles all or selected labels by their position within Controls. For your requirement, I believed general code would be easier so that is what I have provided.
I created a label control and a text box control. I left the default names but changed some properties:
LABEL TEXT BOX
* Name Label1 TextBox1
Caption Prompt/Name
Font Tahoma 10 Tahoma 10
Height 12 18
Left 12 230
* Multiline True
* Scrollbars 2 - frmScrollBarsVertical
TextAlign 3 – frmTextAlighRight 1 – frmTextAlignLegt
Text/Value abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwyz
* Visible False False
Width 200 400
* Word wrap True True
Properties starting “*” are important. The others are because I like the way they affect the form’s appearance.
In the UK, “Label1” and “TextBox1” are the default names for the first label and textbox. With Excel, default names vary with the local language; I do not know if this is true for Outlook. Within the code, it tells you how to change the default names if necessary.
My code assumes the captions for the labels will fit on a single line but the text entered into the text boxes may require several lines.
Having created my standard label and text box, I selected them, copied them, pasted them and then moved the copies so they were exactly under the first pair. I repeated this with the four controls then the eight controls and finally the sixteen controls. I ended with a column of sixteen labels and a column of sixteen text boxes. I was not concerned with the vertical position of the controls; I handle that later. If either column is not perfectly aligned, you can select a column and set the Left property for the entire group. I have created forms with hundreds of controls with acceptable performance so add more if you wish.
I created a command button. I lined it up with the text boxes but made the font larger. I retained the default name and caption.
By creating the command button last, the controls are in the correct tab order. The form opens with the cursor in the first (top) field and each tab takes the cursor to the next field and then to the button.
Finally, I set the width of the form so it was a little wider than the controls. I set the height so it was close to the screen height which on my laptop is about 560. It is possible to get the screen height from the system but that is beyond the scope of this answer. I set the caption to “Report issue”. I named it P2 which the closest I can get to your name (P.2 is an invalid name for a user form). The result was:
** 2. Part 1 of subroutine SendTicket()**
A macro cannot directly send parameters to a user form or receive values back. It must use global variables. P2Params is the global I use to pass data to the user form and I use P2Values to pass data back.
P2Params = Array("Subject", …) is the statement that loads P2Paramswith parameters. The first three parameters are "Subject", 18, True which specify the first text box. The prompt/name is “Subject”, the height is 18 and it is mandatory. Each further set of three parameters defines another text box.
I could have defined all this information within the form but getting a form like this looking the way you want can be very fussy particularly if you change your mind about the height of a text box so all the lower ones have to be moved down. With this approach you can change a text box’s height or change the sequence or add a new field with no hassle at all. Note: height defines the height allocated to the control. On my laptop and with my choice of font, 54 is enough for four lines. If the user types a fifth line, the scroll bars will appear against the relevant control so the user can see all the lines. You specify height of each text box based on some average or typical ticket but it does not matter if the user wants to enter more text than you expected.
Load P2 loads the form into memory and calls UserForm_Initialize() to initialise the form. .Show vbModal passes control to the form. Control is not returned until the user does something to return control. In this case, clicking the command button returns control providing the entered values pass the validation code.
3. The subroutine UserForm_Initialize()
I do not intend to say too much about this sub-routine. Comments within the code fully explain what the code does and the image below shows the result:
If you look down the parameters in P2Params. You can see where this layout came from. The beauty of this approach is that with a different set of parameters, a very different form can be produced. A requirement to import a list of text values is not uncommon so I have used variations of this code before and will again.
4. The subroutine CommandButton1_Click()
The user can enter values into the text boxes in required. Once they are correct, the user clicks the command button which was been re-captioned “Send” by the first part of subroutine SendTicket().
This routine validates that all mandatory fields have a value. I have implemented permitted ranges and other validation but this is sufficient for your requirement. If the field values are acceptable, the routine loads the entered values into array P2Values. As I said, only by storing values in a global variable can a user form return values to the caller.
5. The second part of the subroutine SendTicket()
This code takes the values from P2Values builds the email and sends it. I have send emails to an experimental Gmail account. You will need to replace the recipient with the address of your IT Department.
Summary
There is a lot here for you to think about. Work through it slower and come back with questions if necessary
SendTicket()
Option Explicit
Public Type FieldDtl
CtrlLabel As Long
CtrlTextBox As Long
Height As Long
Mandatory As Boolean
Prompt As String
End Type
Public P2Params As Variant
Public P2Values() As String
Sub SendTicket()
Dim InxFld As Long
Dim InxPrm As Long
Dim MailItemCrnt As MailItem
P2Params = Array("Subject", 18, True, _
"Can you work around the issue?", 18, True, _
"Reason For Ticketing", 30, True, _
"Department", 18, False, _
"Impact", 18, True, _
"Urgency", 18, True, _
"System/Machine Number", 18, True, _
"Was trying to accomplish", 54, True, _
"Has it occured before?", 18, True, _
"First Noticed", 18, False, _
"Others affected by the issue", 42, True, _
"Additional Comments", 54, True)
' Used to test total height of control exceeding height of screen
'P2Params = Array("Subject", 50, True, _
' "Can you work around the issue?", 50, True, _
' "Reason For Ticketing", 50, True, _
' "Department", 50, False, _
' "Impact", 50, True, _
' "Urgency", 50, True, _
' "System/Machine Number", 50, True, _
' "Was trying to accomplish", 54, True, _
' "Has it occured before?", 50, True, _
' "First Noticed", 50, False, _
' "Others affected by the issue", 54, True, _
' "Additional Comments", 54, True)
Load P2
With P2
.CommandButton1.Caption = "Send"
.Show vbModal
End With
' The bounds of P2Values are 1 to number of fields
' The bounds of P2Params could be 1 to NumberOfFields*3 but is almost
' certainly 0 to NumberOfFields*3-1
Set MailItemCrnt = CreateItem(olMailItem)
With MailItemCrnt
.BodyFormat = olFormatPlain
.Recipients.Add "AbbeyRuins33#gmail.com"
.Subject = P2Values(1) ' Assumes subject is first field
.Body = P2Params(LBound(P2Params) + 3) & ": " & P2Values(2)
InxFld = 3
For InxPrm = LBound(P2Params) + 6 To UBound(P2Params) Step 3
.Body = .Body & vbCrLf & P2Params(InxPrm) & ": " & P2Values(InxFld)
InxFld = InxFld + 1
Next
.Display
' .Send
End With
Set MailItemCrnt = Nothing
End Sub
Code for user form
Option Explicit
' In UK, the default name for a label is "LabelN" and the default name for a text box
' is "TextBoxN". In case the default name is different is non-English speaking
' countries, I use constants for these values. Change the value of these constants
' as necessary.
Const NameLabel As String = "Label"
Const NameTextBox As String = "TextBox"
' This code assumes there are N labels named NameLabel & 1 to NameLabel & N and
' N text boxes named NameTextBox & 1 to NameTextBox & N. NameLabelX is used to
' label TextBoxX which is used to obtain the Xth value from the user.
' User type FieldDtl is defined in the SendTicket module
Dim Fields() As FieldDtl
Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
Dim ErrMsg As String
Dim InxFld As Long
' Check values have been entered for mandatory fields
ErrMsg = ""
For InxFld = 1 To UBound(Fields)
If Fields(InxFld).Mandatory And Controls(Fields(InxFld).CtrlTextBox).Text = "" Then
If ErrMsg <> "" Then
ErrMsg = ErrMsg & vbLf
End If
ErrMsg = ErrMsg & "Please enter a value for " & Fields(InxFld).Prompt
End If
Next
' No value entered for one or more mandatory fields
If ErrMsg <> "" Then
Call MsgBox(ErrMsg, vbOKOnly)
Exit Sub
End If
' Save values for caller
ReDim P2Values(1 To UBound(Fields))
For InxFld = 1 To UBound(Fields)
P2Values(InxFld) = Controls(Fields(InxFld).CtrlTextBox).Text
Next
Unload Me
End Sub
Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
Const GapBetweenCtrls As Long = 5
Dim InxCtrl As Long
Dim InxFld As Long
Dim InxPrm As Long
Dim NumFields As Long
Dim NumParams As Long
Dim TopNext As Long
' Note: LBound(P2Params) can be zero or one but will almost certainly be zero.
' This code allows for either possibility.
NumParams = UBound(P2Params) - LBound(P2Params) + 1
Debug.Assert NumParams Mod 3 = 0
NumFields = NumParams / 3
ReDim Fields(1 To NumFields)
' Import values from P2Params
' P2Params must contain 3N paramerers where N is the number of values
' to be obtained from the user. The three values are:
' Prompt/Name for value.
' Height of value (so control can be sized for multi-line values).
' Mandatory? (True is a value must be entered)
InxFld = 1
For InxPrm = LBound(P2Params) To UBound(P2Params) Step 3
Fields(InxFld).Prompt = P2Params(InxPrm)
Fields(InxFld).Height = P2Params(InxPrm + 1)
Fields(InxFld).Mandatory = P2Params(InxPrm + 2)
InxFld = InxFld + 1
Next
' Controls can be accessed by name (for example Label1.Caption) or
' by position within the collection Controls (for example
' Controls(1).Caption). Add control numbers to Fields().
For InxCtrl = 0 To Controls.Count - 1
If Left$(Controls(InxCtrl).Name, Len(NameLabel)) = NameLabel Then
' Extract number at end of name
InxFld = CLng(Mid(Controls(InxCtrl).Name, Len(NameLabel) + 1))
If InxFld <= NumFields Then
' This control will be used
Fields(InxFld).CtrlLabel = InxCtrl
End If
ElseIf Left$(Controls(InxCtrl).Name, Len(NameTextBox)) = NameTextBox Then
InxFld = CLng(Mid(Controls(InxCtrl).Name, Len(NameTextBox) + 1))
If InxFld <= NumFields Then
' This control will be used
Fields(InxFld).CtrlTextBox = InxCtrl
End If
End If
Next
' For InxFld = 1 To NumFields
' Debug.Print Fields(InxFld).Name & " " & Fields(InxFld).Height & " " & _
' Fields(InxFld).Mandatory & " " & Fields(InxFld).CtrlLabel & _
' " " & Fields(InxFld).CtrlTextBox
' Next
' Now have information necessary to build form.
' This code assumes/relies on:
' * All properties of the textbox controls being correct
' except for Top and Height.
' * All properties of the label controls being correct except for Top.
' * The Height of the label controls being less than the Height of any
' Textbox control.
' * The Visible property of the label and textbox controls being false.
' * The Multiline property of the textbox controls being true
' * The Scrollbars property of the textbox controls being
' 2 = frmScrollBarsVertical
' * The Width of the label property being such that all captions fit.
TopNext = GapBetweenCtrls
For InxFld = 1 To NumFields
With Controls(Fields(InxFld).CtrlLabel)
.Top = TopNext
.Caption = Fields(InxFld).Prompt
.Visible = True
End With
With Controls(Fields(InxFld).CtrlTextBox)
.Top = TopNext
.Height = Fields(InxFld).Height
.Text = ""
.Visible = True
End With
TopNext = TopNext + Fields(InxFld).Height + GapBetweenCtrls
Next
With CommandButton1
.Top = TopNext
TopNext = TopNext + .Height + GapBetweenCtrls
End With
' Set scroll height so if total height of controls exceeds height
' of form, user can scroll from top to bottom.
ScrollHeight = TopNext
End Sub