when opening the form

[tubar]

what would be the best way to accomplish this.

when i open up a form (call it the issue form)...i want to ask a question to the user "what is your name" i then want that answer to be put into a record on the form...thus every issue the guy solves his name will already be on the form....

 

[Oldsoftboss]

Try this.....

 

[ghudson]

what would be the best way to accomplish this.

when i open up a form (call it the issue form)...i want to ask a question to the user "what is your name" i then want that answer to be put into a record on the form...thus every issue the guy solves his name will already be on the form....

Wrong approach. What if the user keys in a name that is not theirs? What if the user keys in their first name one day and their full name the next? You should not allow the user to freely key in a name that you are tagging to a record.

There are other ways to obtain a users name or their workgroup name or their network name. The Environ() funciton will do just that. Search around for there are plenty of threads about the Environ() function. I will add this link since if is not easy to find... find username and it has the code to grab the users Full Name from the network name.