Solved Some items appear as text while others as integers

[dawsonrhodes]

Hey All,

So there are a few things to note about my database - firstly it's a comprehensive database for Employees. One of the issues I am having is with training. I have a form that creates new entries for training (for example, lets say next week I roll out a training/sign off for a Health and Safety Memo) - with this there is an option to automatically add this training to every employee with the status incomplete.

Now there is also a way to manually add training types - for example lets say I add a new employee - I will need to add old training manually as they would not have been included in the auto-adding record. So then I would add them using a dropdown menu and filling out a form.

Now I'll attach an image, but basically, the items added automatically show as text, and any manually entered item shows as an integer. In my reports, they all show as text, which I will also show.

I have no clue why, or how to fix this. I would love to hear some suggestions - I can include the stripped-down database with the affected areas if needed.

Thank you for looking at this post!

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

I would guess that you've got your combobox column property setup incorrectly see my video here for more information

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Form with Combo Box Lookup - Nifty Access​

 

[dawsonrhodes]

I would guess that you've got your combobox column property setup incorrectly see my video here for more information

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Form with Combo Box Lookup - Nifty Access​

Hello,

I've checked this, they are all correct and the drop downs show text but when manually inputting it saves as an interger.

Thank you for your response - if you would have any other ideas why this may be happening?!

 

[Gasman]

No you do not understand.

Please show source for the combos and the data tab properties, plus the source for the report, not the textbox, but the query source.

 

[jdraw]

Are you using any Lookup fields in tables? Can you show us some code behind your form and report generation to ensure there isn't code doing/not doing something?

 

[gemma-the-husky]

All visible data in a combo box IS text. If you want them as numbers you can do this sort of thing. You need some validation/error checking in case you try to treat a non-numeric value as a number.

if isnumeric(mycombobox.column(2) then
    mynumber = clng(mycombobox.column(2)
end if

How exactly ARE you handling the combo box value?