#error In Ms Access Form
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to the apt thoughts of men The things that are not?' Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (1599) access Q&A excel Q&A technical notes convert DB site map ms access forms tutorial Form and Report Text Boxes Show #Error Question I use ms access 2007 forms expressions as the Control Source for text boxes on forms and reports. Some of these ms access 2000 forms work OK, but others throw #Error. I cannot see why. Do you know? Applies To This topic is relevant to Microsoft Access 97, 2000,
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2002 (XP), 2003, 2007 and 2010. Answer The most common reason we find is that the name of the text box control itself is the same as the name of a field in the record source of the form, or of the report, that bears the text box. By way ms access vba forms of illustration, imagine a form or report based on a table that has a field named 'TelNo'. Also, that a text box on the form or report is named 'TelNo'. For the control Source of the text box, you input ="Telephone No: " & [TelNo]. Now Access cannot make up its mind between TelNo the field and TelNo the text box, and as a result displays the error. Change the name of the text box to 'tebTelNo', say, and the Control Source expression to ="Telephone No: " & [tebTelNo] and the text box should behave. Disclaimer DMW Consultancy Ltd does not accept any liability for loss or damage to data to which any techniques, methods or code included in this website are applied. Back up your data; test thoroughly before using on live data. Copyright © 2010–2016 DMW Consultancy Ltd · Tonbridge · Kent ↑ top
of Use Forms: #Error when the Subform has no records Author(s) Keri Hardwick Here are some facts about #ERROR returned when a subform has no records:In these ms access form templates examples, [Subf field] refers to a syntactically correctreference to a subform
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field from a main form. 1. It will not evaluate to null: IsNull([Subf field]) is false 2. It
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will evaluate to an error on the main form, but not when passeto a global module: IsError([Subf field]) on the main form evaluates to true IsAnError([Subf field]) returns http://www.consultdmw.com/access-control-error.htm false, where this function exists in a global module: Function IsAnError(testvalue as variant) as Boolean IsAnError = IsError(testvalue) End Function 3. It will not evaluate to numeric. IsNumeric([subf field]) evaluates to false. I have found this to be the best test, since often it is a total or other number being passed back to the main form. http://access.mvps.org/access/forms/frm0022.htm If not, there is usually some numeric field on the sub that can be tested whether or not it is the field used on the main form. This test indicates when there are records, IsNumeric will be true; when there are no records, IsNumeric will be false. So, you can catch "no records" and display what you want instead of #ERROR. This function returns zero instead of #ERROR when used like this:nnz([Subf field]) on the main form. I use it from a global module. '***************** Code Start *************** 'This code was originally written by Keri Hardwick. 'It is not to be altered or distributed, 'except as part of an application. 'You are free to use it in any application, 'provided the copyright notice is left unchanged. ' 'Code Courtesy of 'Keri Hardwick ' Function nnz(testvalue As Variant) As Variant 'Not Numeric return zero If Not (IsNumeric(testvalue)) Then nnz = 0 Else nnz = testvalue End If End Function '***************** Code End **************** © 1998-2010, Dev Ashish & Arvin Meyer, All rights reserved. Optimized for Microsoft Internet Explorer
help? Post your question and get tips & solutions from a community of 418,438 IT Pros & Developers. It's quick & easy. #Name? error message in Access Form P: 3 jkriner #Name? error message in Access Form -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello I have created a simple https://bytes.com/topic/access/answers/683767-name-error-message-access-form database with 4 tables (all the same fields in each table). I then created a form and copied it 3 times (renaming the forms according to the table names). I changed the recource source in each form to reflect the corresponding table but now in some of the fields (in the copied forms) I am getting a #Name? message in a couple of the fields. Any help would be great... thanks :) Jul 26 '07 #1 Post Reply Share this Question 4 Replies Expert Mod ms access 10K+ P: 12,110 Rabbit It probably means your field names from your record source don't match up with the control source property of the controls on the form. Jul 26 '07 #2 reply P: 3 jkriner ok, I just copied the original form (ie. table09 goes with form09 and then I copied form09 3 times and renamed them form10, form 11, form12...there is data in each of the tables (table 9, table10, table11, table12) that shows up in the corresponding forms, but how do I ms access form get the fields to match up? I am somewhat clueless (as you can tell) when creating anything in access and that is why I copied the form three times so I wouldn't have to redesign it each time) thanks so much Jul 26 '07 #3 reply Expert 100+ P: 1,206 JKing First I suggest checking the record source for each form. Open up the form properties and make sure you have the right table set for each form. For example Form9 should be set as table9, form10 set as table10. Once this is done open the properties for any textboxes that are giving you a #name error. There is drop down for the control source property. Select the proper field name from the list. This should get rid of any errors you have. Jul 26 '07 #4 reply Expert Mod 10K+ P: 12,110 Rabbit If the tables have different field names, then the controls on the form that reference those field names will be wrong because they're using the field names from the original form. You have to change the control source property of the control to reflect the field names in the table. Jul 26 '07 #5 reply Message Cancel Changes Post your reply Join Now >> Sign in to post your reply or Sign up for a free account. Similar topics Drag and Drop File Name from Windows Explorer into Access Form Textbox Custom Error Messages SOAP (access multiple