I have a form that has command buttons that are used to open other forms; I tried to develop one master form to display certain record types. Certain times the command button will pressed but the table will not contain any records; thus the form will be blank. Is there a way to have an error message state “there are no records for the selected type”? And not open the form?
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AskWoody LoungerSeptember 27, 2005 at 4:05 pm #975668 -
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AskWoody LoungerSeptember 27, 2005 at 4:11 pm #975672Say that FormA is based on TableA (it could also be a query, that isn’t important here). The On Click code of the command button that opens FormA could look like this:
Private Sub cmdOpenFormA_Click()
If DCount("*", "TableA") = 0 Then
MsgBox "There are no records to display.", vbInformation
Else
DoCmd.OpenForm "FormA"
End If
End Sub
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AskWoody LoungerSeptember 27, 2005 at 8:01 pm #975724If you search for OpenForm and/or WhereCondition in this forum, you’ll find many examples, such as post 513,200, post 497,573, post 496,798 etc.
WhereCondition is used to limit the records displayed in a form to those satisfying a certain condition, not to open the form only if a specific condition is met.
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AskWoody LoungerSeptember 28, 2005 at 12:58 pm #975887The idea could be like this:
Private Sub cmdOpenFormA_Click()
Dim strCondition As String
' The restriction for the records to be displayed
strCondition = "..."
If DCount("*", "TableA", strCondition) = 0 Then
MsgBox "There are no records to display.", vbInformation
Else
DoCmd.OpenForm FormName:="FormA", WhereCondition:=strCondition
End If
End Sub
The contents of strCondition must be determined by you; it could be something like
strCondition = "[CompanyID] = 37"
or
strCondition = "[LastName] Like 'R*'"
or
strCondition = "[InvoiceDate] > #09/01/2005#"
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