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With my 'Inside-Out Access 2013' Bible I have built a cool web app in 365. There is only a one-time possibility to grab the user info. Is this right? The Action catalog shown with 'On-Start' macros includes 'User Interface Commands' which will retrieve the logged on user via...

AhHa, Got it. Yes, an edit record block within a lookup does work. Thank you. I had gone around the houses looking at context and aliases. Really appreciated. Cheers, Richard

Jeff, I was also very puzzled by the requirements of lookup when converting a field in an imported table but your instructions sorted it for me so I am very grateful. Knowing what I know now I still cannot piece it together from your Inside-Out book, maybe a mod for V2? Cheers, Richard

Thanks Paul. When a new record is created I want to assign it a reference number which is held in another table. I do a Lookup okay, I then want to increment the reference number by one, ready for the next create, but cannot do a setfield/edit on the record 'looked up' there are context...

Working through Inside Out/Microsoft Access 2013 I cannot suss whether it is possible to update two tables in one on-event section. On a record create I have an on-insert macro and read a table to retrieve a reference number. I cannot update this table in the same on-insert section, I...

And today I need to suss out Access 2013. I don't want to do anything complex but my ratio of hours to lines of code is terrible. Live in east Sussex so HI JON Just got back from the IOM TT in one piece, my Fireblade is so fast. Those riders are the bravest in the world. A big...