Re: linking databases

Because you've got blanks in the file name, try putting single quotes around
it.

--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
http://I.Am/DougSteele
(no private e-mails, please)


"Kevin" <Kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

First I was using the Form's [Event Procedure] After Update property but
now
I using the text box's [Event Procedure] After Update property on the form
I'm using to update my main form and the underlying table. When I click on
the ellipsis it takes me into the procedure. However I still get the same
"Method or Data member not found" compile error message after the Me.
statement in the SET line of the code. According to the 'SQL Bible (Aklex
Kriegel)' which I'm using, the SET clause is supposed to specify the name
of
the column to update and the new value to be assigned to it.
The name of the column in the table in the 2nd database I want to update
is
"region", and another is "country", so I don't understand why Access is
giving me the compile error message. Those are the correct names of the
columns and nothing else. I wonder if the problem has to do with using the
After Update property, as this code was written for the "OnExit" property
(Sub txtBB_OnExit). I've tried using that property too but it still
doesn't
update the 2nd table. I'm at the knocking my head against the wall stage
now....this should be working but isn't.

"Douglas J. Steele" wrote:

When you go into the properties for the text box, does it have [Event
Procedure] as the value for the AfterUpdate property? If it does, what
happens when you click on the ellipsis (...) to the right of the
property?
It should take you into the procedure. If it doesn't, are you sure you
didn't make a typo?

--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
http://I.Am/DougSteele
(no private e-mails, please)


"Kevin" <Kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi again,

Thanks for your help.
I've included the IN statement but I'm still having problems with other
sections of the code. What I have now looks like this:

Sub chrCountry_AfterUpdate()
Dim sSQL As String

sSQL = "UPDATE [ctbto table 1] " & _
"IN J:\leg er\er projects\ES
Missions\ESMissionReports\CTBTO_situationers_AFD.MDB " & _
" SET [Region] = '" & Me.chrRegion & "', " & _
" [Country] = '" & Me.chrCountry & "'" & _
" WHERE [code] = " & Me.code & ";"

DoCmd.SetWarnings False
CurrentDb.Execute sSQL
DoCmd.SetWarnings True

End Sub

Using either the After Update event procedure of the Form or the Exit
or
After Update event procedures for one of the text boxes, I get a
compile
error with the ".chrCountry" line ( ''Metod or Data member not found")
and
the "Sub chrCountry_AfterUpdate()" line is highlighted in Yellow. The
text
box names I use after the SET clause (eg. "chrCountry") are the correct
column names in my underlying table so I don't understand why there
should
be
a compile error there, nor do I know what else I could use there. What
could
be the problem here? Do the names of the table columns have to be
identical
in both tables for the Upadte Query to work? (After the WHERE statement
I've
changed ID to code as this is the primary key in the table in the 2nd
database I'm trying to update).

Thanks again for your time and patience with me.



"Douglas J. Steele" wrote:

"Kevin" <Kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Sub Country_OnExit

Dim sSQL as String

sSQL = "UPDATE [ctbto table 1] SET " & _
" [Region] = '" & Me.chrRegion & "', " & _
" [Country] = '" & Me.chrCountry & "'" & _
" WHERE [ID] = " & Me.dtmID & ";"

DoCmd.SetWarnings False
CurrentDb.Execute sSQL
DoCmd.SetWarnings True

End Sub

However, I'm quite obviously still doing something wrong and
misunderstanding how this code is supposed to work as when I run it,
it
deletes the entry on the form in the first database for the
particular
country whose record I want to update, while not updating the second
table.
I've also tried using the "After Update" event property and deleting
the
"On
Exit" event property in the code, but then I get compile errors.

Not sure I see how that could delete any entries from a database.

Yes, if you point to the wrong table, and that wrong table happens to
have
fields named "Region" and "Country", you'd end up overwriting the
record
that has that ID, but an Update statement cannot delete data.

Also, how do I let Access know where to find the relevant table in
the
second database? I've tried linking that table but to no effect.
Please
bear
with me here, I'm really not very proficient with SQL and VBA
programming
though I'm trying to learn them. I hope you can understand my
explanation
and
can tell me what I"m doing wrong.

You could use an IN clause:

sSQL = "UPDATE [ctbto table 1] " & _
"IN C:\Folder\File.MDB " & _
" SET [Region] = '" & Me.chrRegion & "', " & _
" [Country] = '" & Me.chrCountry & "'" & _
" WHERE [ID] = " & Me.dtmID & ";"


--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
http://I.Am/DougSteele
(no private e-mails, please)









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