Combo Box not filtered like the form is filtered (1 Viewer)

[sladetroityer]

How do I get a combo box to be filtered the same way that the form that it resides on is filtered?

My form is filtered with a macro and then I added a combo box to it and the dropdown menu is displaying ALL of the data instead of the filtered data.

ACCESS 2010

 

[vbaInet]

Is the form a Single form, a Continuous form or a form in Datasheet view?

 

[sladetroityer]

It's a single form.

Oh and remember the whole Layout Tab issue that I had. It was the Access Options, Current Database, Enable Layout View check box..... No idea how it got unchecked.....

 

[vbaInet]

It's a single form.

Is the combo box bound or unbound?

Oh and remember the whole Layout Tab issue that I had. It was the Access Options, Current Database, Enable Layout View check box..... No idea how it got unchecked.....

Not really! But I'm pleased to hear that it's resolved.

 

[sladetroityer]

It's unbound or at least it was

 

[vbaInet]

So how is the form filtered? For example, by entering text into a textbox and clicking a button?

 

[sladetroityer]

The form is filtered by two macros. When the AVE button is clicked and AVE macro set's the TemVar to a specific number and then a macro with the instructions on how to filter is ran which brings up the filtered form based off the Employee Query

 

[vbaInet]

And this filtered ID is also a field in your form's record source right?

You need to put the full reference to this field in the Row Source of your combo box. Then add an extra action in the macro to requery the combo box.

 

[sladetroityer]

Yes. The records are being filtered by Department description or Lowest Level department description and they are both on the employee search form which contains the combo box.

 

[vbaInet]

In case you don't know how, this is how what a full reference should look like:

[Forms]![[COLOR=Red]FormName[/COLOR]]![FieldName]

 

[sladetroityer]

The Combo box has the employee names in it, not the Department description so how whould that work?

 

[sladetroityer]

SELECT [qselEmployeeInformation].[strFirstName], [qselEmployeeInformation].[strLastName] FROM [qselEmployeeInformation] ORDER BY [strFirstName];

This is what is in the combo box now.

 

[vbaInet]

So how do you expect to filter the row source of the combo box if none of the fields you described in post #11 are not present?

 

[sladetroityer]

Ha, that's a good question. I wasn't sure if it was even possible.

 

[vbaInet]

Give it some good thought or drop the idea completely.

 

[sladetroityer]

Dropped...... Thanks

 

[vbaInet]

No problemo!