<<HELP>> Problem with recalling a record and displaying it on the form!

[Chuck]

I am trying to retrive one field from the "company info" table that
contains several fields but I want the "company name" field. There is
only one record in this table. When I entered the code below (which I
copied out of a book). I get the following error. The hickup comes in
the "dim db as database" line. However if I comment this out. It
doesn't like the next line either.

I appreciate any help you can give me. Also is this a problem between
ADO and DAO?

Error I receive is:

Microsoft Visual Basic
! Compile Error:
User-defined type not defined

Private Sub Form_Load()

Dim db as database
Dim rst as recordset
Dim strsql as string
Dim coname as string

Set db = currentdb
strsql = "select [company name] from [company info]"
set rst=db.openreco rdset(strsql)
rst.movelast
rst.movefirst
coname=rst!("co mpany name")
me.txtcompanyna me = coname
rst.close
Set rst = nothing
Set db = nothing

End Sub

Thanks for all your help in advance!

Chuck

[Randy Harris]

"Chuck" <w0***@yahoo.co m> wrote in message
news:64******** *************** ***@posting.goo gle.com...

I am trying to retrive one field from the "company info" table that
contains several fields but I want the "company name" field. There is
only one record in this table. When I entered the code below (which I
copied out of a book). I get the following error. The hickup comes in
the "dim db as database" line. However if I comment this out. It
doesn't like the next line either.

I appreciate any help you can give me. Also is this a problem between
ADO and DAO?
Almost certainly. This code is DAO. You very likely don't have a reference
to DAO set. Go to Tools->References to set it. Personally, I don't like to
mix DAO and ADO code in the same project, I would also uncheck the reference
to ADO.

Randy
Error I receive is:

Microsoft Visual Basic
! Compile Error:
User-defined type not defined

Private Sub Form_Load()

Dim db as database
Dim rst as recordset
Dim strsql as string
Dim coname as string

Set db = currentdb
strsql = "select [company name] from [company info]"
set rst=db.openreco rdset(strsql)
rst.movelast
rst.movefirst
coname=rst!("co mpany name")
me.txtcompanyna me = coname
rst.close
Set rst = nothing
Set db = nothing

End Sub

Thanks for all your help in advance!

Chuck

[Chuck]

"Randy Harris" <ra***@SpamFree .com> wrote in message news:<YP******* ************@ne wssvr16.news.pr odigy.com>...

"Chuck" <w0***@yahoo.co m> wrote in message
news:64******** *************** ***@posting.goo gle.com...

I am trying to retrive one field from the "company info" table that
contains several fields but I want the "company name" field. There is
only one record in this table. When I entered the code below (which I
copied out of a book). I get the following error. The hickup comes in
the "dim db as database" line. However if I comment this out. It
doesn't like the next line either.

I appreciate any help you can give me. Also is this a problem between
ADO and DAO?

Almost certainly. This code is DAO. You very likely don't have a reference
to DAO set. Go to Tools->References to set it. Personally, I don't like to
mix DAO and ADO code in the same project, I would also uncheck the reference
to ADO.

Randy

Error I receive is:

Microsoft Visual Basic
! Compile Error:
User-defined type not defined

Private Sub Form_Load()

Dim db as database
Dim rst as recordset
Dim strsql as string
Dim coname as string

Set db = currentdb
strsql = "select [company name] from [company info]"
set rst=db.openreco rdset(strsql)
rst.movelast
rst.movefirst
coname=rst!("co mpany name")
me.txtcompanyna me = coname
rst.close
Set rst = nothing
Set db = nothing

End Sub

Thanks for all your help in advance!

Chuck

Thanks Randy,

This seems to have cleared up alot. I guess from the DAO version you
can't use the "me." reference for the open form?

Thanks Again,
Chuck