Combo Box Allows User to Change data

[Guest]

I have a combo box that allows the user to change the text once they select a
fee from the drop down list. The text itself does not change, but the table
that stores the information reflects the users change.

Ex. User selected "Booth Fees for 3 Booths" from the dropdown list, The
user then Highlighted "Booth Fees" part and deleted it. The user then
clicked on the invoice comand button to print an invoice. The invoice
printed "for 3 booths" and the table that stores the Shows Fee information
(ShowsFees) had "for 3 booths" instead of "Booth Fees for 3 Booths".

The combobox row source type is table/view/SP and the Row source is a simple
select statement from the MasterFees table. The subform RecordSource is the
Table ShowFees.

Is there a way to prevent the user from trying to change the text after they
select a fee from the list? I have tried Locked, Enabled properties and that
did not work.

Any Help is greatly appreciated

Thanks
ToniS

 

[Guest]

Set the combo's Limit To List property to Yes.
Then, if you don't like the default Access error message, you can do that in
the combo's Not In List event.

MsgBox "Select an Item From the List"
Response = acDataErrContinue

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the quick response, I checked and I do have that set to Y.
When I do highlight some of the text and delete it, the ComboBox looks fine,
all of the text still displays.. just when it gets stored to the ShowsFee
table, the informtion is stored the way the user changed it...

 

[Guest]

try adding this line to the procedure:

Me.MyCombo Undo

That should put the value back to what is was before the user changed it,
but without being able to test it at the moment, I don't know if it will
still have the correct value or not.

 

[Guest]

THANK YOU!!! That worked perfectly!!

try adding this line to the procedure:

Me.MyCombo Undo

That should put the value back to what is was before the user changed it,
but without being able to test it at the moment, I don't know if it will
still have the correct value or not.