Conditional Field, Need Code

[Guest]

On a Form, I have a field called Actual Terminal and another field called
Other Terminal. Actual Terminal is a combo box with a drop down menu. I
want to make Other Terminal a required field if Other is chosed from the
Actual Terminal drop down. I know there have been other posts about this,
but I can't seem to make it work. Can someone please help me with the code?
And where to put the code?

Thanks,
Sylvia

 

[Rick B]

In the form's BEFORE UPDATE event put something like...

If ActualTerminal = "other" then
If Isnull(OtherTerminal) Then
msgbox ("other terminal is required if actual terminal is other.")
me.OtherTerminal.setfocus
cancel
end if
end if


That is air code, not tested.

 

[Guest]

I get an error message:
Compile error: Method or data member not found

Then, when I click OK, I go back to the VB screen and see the following:

Private Sub Form_BeforeUpdate(Cancel As Integer)

If ActualTerminal = "other" Then
If IsNull(OtherTerminal) Then
MsgBox ("other terminal is required if actual terminal is other.")
Me.OtherTerminal.SetFocus
Cancel

End If

End Sub

Private Sub Form_BeforeUpdate(Cancel As Integer) is highlighted in yellow and
Me.OtherTerminal is highlighted.

Help!!!

 

[Rick B]

Hmmm.. Try just....

OtherTerminal.SetFocus


That is your field name, right?

 

[Guest]

Oops! I had a space where it shouldn't have been. But now Cancel is
highlighted and I get the following error message:
Compile error: Expected Sub, Function or Property.

Not sure what that means???

 

[Rick B]

Well, I see two IFs in your pasted code, but only one END IF.

Try that out.