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jjgolob

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I have form that has a Customer field which is a combo box. Further down the form, I have Combo box named Coding String. This form is used to fill a table, Trip Tickets. The Customer field is pulled from a list created by the Vendor List table. The Row Source coding is SELECT [Vendor List].[Vendor] FROM [Vendor List] ORDER BY [Vendor]; I have a Coding String table which contains both the Customer Name and the Coding String associated with it. It some cases, there will be multiple Coding Strings attached to a single customer.

What I would like to do is to have the form pull the Customer name from the form once it has been selected and use that to limit the available Coding Strings. I want only the Coding Strings attached to that particular Customer available in a Combo Box.

How do I accomplish this. I have tried several different things, but just can't seem to link the two items together.

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Hi. Do a search on on "cascading combobox." Sorry, I don't have time to show it to you right now. Good luck!
 

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Ok Thanks
 

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better to avoid spaces in field and control names - can cause issues. If your control has code, vba will substitute a space with an underline character - or perhaps surround with square brackets. But to answer your question

for your other combo's has a rowsource along the lines of

SELECT PK, somefield FROM sometable WHERE vendorFK=[CodingString]

and in the after update event of your coding string control, requery all the dependant combos and reset to null

dependantcombo1.requery
dependantcombo1=null
etc

But from your brief description, it looks like you have other problems - your vendor list would appear not to have a primary key. It should have and should be returned in your coding string rowsource and used. Using (presumably) a vendor name is not the right way to go.
 

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I searched up cascading combo boxes and it did exactly what I needed. It took a bit to make them work right, but in the end, perfect. Thanks theDBGuy!
 

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I searched up cascading combo boxes and it did exactly what I needed. It took a bit to make them work right, but in the end, perfect. Thanks theDBGuy!
Hi. Congratulations! Glad to hear you got it sorted out. Good luck with your project.
 

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