continuous forms and locking records

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Chris Strug

Hi,

I gather that this is quite a popular question however I'm completely unable
to find a solution through google. So if anyone can provide a helping hand
it would be greatly appreciated.

I have an Access 2003 ADP which contains a bound continuous form. Everything
(for once) is working just fine except:

Based on the contents of one control in the form I'd like to prevent the
user from editing that record depending on the contents. I.e. if txtStatus =
"Cancelled" then prevent changes to that record.

Now I understand that by using continuous forms all I should have to do is
to test the value of the txtStatus control in the current event and enable /
disable the "allowedits" property of the form as the current event will run
for every record that gets the focus.

However it won't let me get that far. Everytime I reference a control in the
continuous form in the Current event of the form, the event runs but I get
the error message:

"Run-time error '2424':

The expression you entered has a field, control, or property name that <app
name> can't find."

I'm at a loss. Cany anyone explain what the application is doing and how I
can change it so that it will let me examine the status of the current
record and react accordingly...

Thanks

Chris.
 
Chris Strug said:
Hi,

I gather that this is quite a popular question however I'm completely unable
to find a solution through google. So if anyone can provide a helping hand
it would be greatly appreciated.

I have an Access 2003 ADP which contains a bound continuous form. Everything
(for once) is working just fine except:

Based on the contents of one control in the form I'd like to prevent the
user from editing that record depending on the contents. I.e. if txtStatus =
"Cancelled" then prevent changes to that record.

Now I understand that by using continuous forms all I should have to do is
to test the value of the txtStatus control in the current event and enable /
disable the "allowedits" property of the form as the current event will run
for every record that gets the focus.

However it won't let me get that far. Everytime I reference a control in the
continuous form in the Current event of the form, the event runs but I get
the error message:

"Run-time error '2424':

The expression you entered has a field, control, or property name that <app
name> can't find."

I'm at a loss. Cany anyone explain what the application is doing and how I
can change it so that it will let me examine the status of the current
record and react accordingly...

Thanks

Chris.
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It would help if you posted your code and identified the line where the
error occurs.
 
Hi people,

I just thought I would post to help out other people like myself who have
been looking for a solution to this same problem. As others have mentioned
it is likely to be a mispelled or non-existent control, however in my case
it was actually the 'Control Source' of the text box that was invalid,
producing the same error. I added the missing field to the forms 'Record
Source' and problem solved.

Dan
 
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