Hi Allen
I took onboard your comments. I have investigated the field setup's in
the table design, but none of them are required fields. You are
correct about the DoCmd.Close though. I have a close button on the
form. I will look into removing this.
Kind regards
Tim ffitch
"Allen Browne" <allenbrowne@SeeSig.invalid> wrote in message news:<3fa12686$0$1742$5a62ac22@freenews.iinet.net. au>...[color=blue]
> One way that edits are lost is to use the Close action at a time when the
> record can't be saved.
>
> If a record is partially filled out, but cannot be saved (e.g. a required
> field missing), and you use the Close action/method, e.g.:
> DoCmd.Close acForm, Me.Name
> Access silently discards the edits and the user is not informed that their
> record was not saved. (If the use the Close button built into the form's
> title bar, they are informed.)
>
> The RunCommand is applied to whatever form has focus at the time. There is
> no guarantee that it is applied to the form you intend. A better solution is
> to set the form's Dirty property to False, because you can then specify
> which form this applies to, e.g.:
> Me.Dirty = False
> This generates a trappable error if the record cannot be saved.
>
> --
> Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia.
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>
> "Tim ffitch" <fia@ifs.inchcape.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:131ac1c1.0310300649.667cd97c@posting.google.c om...[color=green]
> >
> > Here is my setup. 5 users on NT4 workstations each with front end
> > Access 97 db linked to NT4 server which has back end data file.
> >
> > A user selects a supplier from a pop up form. The main form is updated
> > with the supplier details. The user then moves to a new order and then
> > later returns to the first order. The supplier details are no longer
> > there for the first order.
> >
> > I have tried using docmd.RunCommand acCmdSaveRecord all over the place
> > to force the record to update to no avail.
> >
> > Please, please, please has anybody got any ideas as to why the changes
> > are being lost. This does not happen all the time, only every now and
> > again.
> >
> > Is it an access problem, NT4 workstation problem or NT4 Server
> > problem?
> >
> > Many thanks for any advice you can offer.
> >
> > Tim ffitch[/color][/color]
