Trouble With saving fields brought in using combo box.

Ok the complete story. I have a Contact Table, Query and Form, that
are used to input
and store the contact info for customers. They have FirstName, LastName

and Address as the primary key fields to keep out duplicates. I am
trying to put a full name box on the query, that uses the FirstName,
LastName and Middle Initial and puts them together to form a full name.
That I have so far. On my order database(consisting of a master table
with all the fields for order details, a master query that pulls all of
those fields into the query, and a form in which the query fields are
filled out. I made a combo box with the wizard that gets the full name
from the contacts query and stores it into B1(buyer1) Full Name field
in the Master Query. The trouble is that when it does this I want it to
pull the separate fields from the Contacts query(FirstName, Middle
Initial, LastName, etc, into separate B1 fields(named B1 First, B1
Middle Initial, B1 Last, etc.). I want to do this same thing for a
Buyer2 and 2 sellers, but getting their information from the contacts
query/table. Any Ideas????? i keep getting it to pull the full name,but
when i try relating the two queries to get the data, it wont allow me
to change the name in the combo box.
Thanks ahead of time for any help you can provide.

Not clear what you are trying to do, but it sounds like you have a
master table and a detail table and you want to base something on the
data from these tables - a combobox? And the problem you are having is
in retrieving the desired dataset from these tables.

Based on what I understand about your problem, I would suggest you try
to create a query where you join your master and detail tables and see
what the result set is. If the problem is that you cannot join the
master and detail tables then the problem would be that you are trying
to mix apples with oranges - in which case the problem would be that the
data tables are not related - or not related correctly.

Rich

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I have a master order table which has a bunch of details about the
persons perchase. I need to pull a persons information from the contact
information query and insert that information into the similar fields
on the master order table. I use a combo box on the master order form,
to look up the persons full name from the contacts information query
and then save that full name to one of the following fields(B1 Full
Name, B2 Full Name, S1 Full Name, or S2 Full Name). However, I need it
to bring in the rest of the fields that correspond with that full name
and put them in the similar fields in the master order form and query.
I tried to relate the two, however, it will not let me change the
persons name in the combo box if i relate the B1 Full Name(on the
master order query) and the Full Name(field on the Contact information
query). Any ideas. they are the same data types and should work but
dont.
Rich P wrote:[color=blue]
> Not clear what you are trying to do, but it sounds like you have a
> master table and a detail table and you want to base something on the
> data from these tables - a combobox? And the problem you are having is
> in retrieving the desired dataset from these tables.
>
> Based on what I understand about your problem, I would suggest you try
> to create a query where you join your master and detail tables and see
> what the result set is. If the problem is that you cannot join the
> master and detail tables then the problem would be that you are trying
> to mix apples with oranges - in which case the problem would be that the
> data tables are not related - or not related correctly.
>
> Rich
>
> *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***[/color]

You should be able to set the Row Source of your Combo Box to a Query that
returns and displays the full name, but also has columns for first, middle,
and last names. You refer to those using the Combo Box's Column property
(which is zero based, so if you have 4 columns they are Column(0),
Column(1), Column(2), and Column(3).

You can't automatically store the selected value for more than a single
column by using the Combo's Control Source, so you'll have to do it with a
little VBA code, and possibly some Controls with their Visible property set
to False/No.

Example:

Me.cboPersonsName.Column(1)

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP


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>I have a master order table which has a bunch of details about the
> persons perchase. I need to pull a persons information from the contact
> information query and insert that information into the similar fields
> on the master order table. I use a combo box on the master order form,
> to look up the persons full name from the contacts information query
> and then save that full name to one of the following fields(B1 Full
> Name, B2 Full Name, S1 Full Name, or S2 Full Name). However, I need it
> to bring in the rest of the fields that correspond with that full name
> and put them in the similar fields in the master order form and query.
> I tried to relate the two, however, it will not let me change the
> persons name in the combo box if i relate the B1 Full Name(on the
> master order query) and the Full Name(field on the Contact information
> query). Any ideas. they are the same data types and should work but
> dont.
> Rich P wrote:[color=green]
>> Not clear what you are trying to do, but it sounds like you have a
>> master table and a detail table and you want to base something on the
>> data from these tables - a combobox? And the problem you are having is
>> in retrieving the desired dataset from these tables.
>>
>> Based on what I understand about your problem, I would suggest you try
>> to create a query where you join your master and detail tables and see
>> what the result set is. If the problem is that you cannot join the
>> master and detail tables then the problem would be that you are trying
>> to mix apples with oranges - in which case the problem would be that the
>> data tables are not related - or not related correctly.
>>
>> Rich
>>
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