Input Masks - Leading Zeros

[Cheryl]

I am trying to create a new database using Access 2007. One of the tables
will be an employees table. Our employees have badge numbers that can be 4
to 6 numeric digits. I would like to be to enter a badge number as, for
example, 1234, and have Access save it as 001234, but I haven't been able to
figure out an input mask to do this.

Can anyone help me?

Thank you.

 

[fredg]

I am trying to create a new database using Access 2007. One of the tables
will be an employees table. Our employees have badge numbers that can be 4
to 6 numeric digits. I would like to be to enter a badge number as, for
example, 1234, and have Access save it as 001234, but I haven't been able to
figure out an input mask to do this.

Can anyone help me?

Thank you.

No Input Mask is necessary.
As a number, 1234 has the same value as 001234.
If the [BadgeNumber] field's datatype is Number it will NOT store
preceding zeros.

Set the table's [BadgeNumber] field's Datatype to Text.
Now you can save preceding zeros.

On the form you use for data entry, code the [BadgeNumber] control's
AfterUpdate event:

Me.[BadgeNumber] = Format([BadgeNumber],"000000")

Enter 1234 and Access will save it as 001234.

 

[Jeff Boyce]

Cheryl

Why? If you are looking to see 6 characters, you can use formatting (not
storing) to accomplish that.

By the way, unless you are planning to "do math" on those, the badge
"numbers" aren't "numbers"! As suggested elsethread, make them text
instead, to avoid the confusion about whether you can do math on them.

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Access MVP

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[shardstrat]

Why? If you are looking to see 6 characters, you can use formatting (not
storing) to accomplish that.

How? Please!

TIA

 

[John W. Vinson]

How? Please!

TIA

Set the Format of a number field to

"000000"

It will still store the number as a binary number (without any digits, decimal
places, or formatting) but what you see on the screen will be six digits with
leading zeros.
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[Gloops]

How? Please!

TIA

Hello,

If I do not mix up with something else, you have to consider
- format : for the display
- inputmask : for the input

In the format you have to distinguish #, that stays for a figure except
a leading zero, and 0, where a leading zero will appear.