Text box remains blank

[mhisma]

Hi All,
I have a form with several text boxes.
In a textbox, named it by "current user" I typed = CurrentUser() in Default Value tabs so I hope the text box will show the user who is using the form, but when I switch the view into Form View, the text box remains blank ( didnt show any value ).
What's wrong with my form
Kindly need your help

 

[missinglinq]

Place =CurrentUser() in the Control Source property for the text box, instead of the Default Value; works for me in 2000/2003!

Linq

 

[boblarson]

Hi All,
I have a form with several text boxes.
In a textbox, named it by "current user" I typed = CurrentUser() in Default Value tabs so I hope the text box will show the user who is using the form, but when I switch the view into Form View, the text box remains blank ( didnt show any value ).
What's wrong with my form
Kindly need your help

If you place it in the DEFAULT VALUE then it will ONLY appear on a NEW record. It won't appear, or change, for an existing record.

 

[mhisma]

OK, both works
thanks for the help ....