Time in access

[cflarida]

I have a simple form that will gather it's information from a card
reader. The form has 3 fields SSN which is gathered from the card
swipe. Can I make access automaticly hit enter when it hits the last
digit in this field, it will always be 11 digits (000-00-0000)? I wold
also need it to to fill in 2 other fields Date, and Time. I would need
the exact Date and time of the swipe or entry. How do I pull from the
PC's time to do this. At the moment I have the Date field set for
defualt value =date() and the Time field default value set =time() but
it populates the date and time that right after the last entry. If
anyone has anything that would work please let me know. Thanks

[Rick Brandt]

cf******@yahoo.com wrote:

I have a simple form that will gather it's information from a card
reader. The form has 3 fields SSN which is gathered from the card
swipe. Can I make access automaticly hit enter when it hits the last
digit in this field, it will always be 11 digits (000-00-0000)? I
wold also need it to to fill in 2 other fields Date, and Time. I
would need the exact Date and time of the swipe or entry. How do I
pull from the PC's time to do this. At the moment I have the Date
field set for defualt value =date() and the Time field default value
set =time() but it populates the date and time that right after the
last entry. If anyone has anything that would work please let me
know. Thanks

Try seeting the AutoTab property to true. That should cause the focus to
aiutomatically move to the next control when the maximum allowed characters
is entered.

DateTimes in Access always include both a Time and a Date so why have two
separate fields? Just use Now() in a single field and you will get both the
date and the time. To set this at the moment that the card is swiped use
the AfterUpdate of that control...

Me.SwipeTime = Now()

BTW bad idea to have fields or controls named "Date" and/or "Time" as these
are reserved words in Access/VBA.
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[Ed Robichaud]

A control's Auto Tab property (set to "Yes") will move the cursor to the
next control after the last permitted character is entered. A single
field/control can capture the date and time of the last data entry. In the
form's Before Update event, put code like:
Me!myUpDate = Now()

-Ed

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I have a simple form that will gather it's information from a card
reader. The form has 3 fields SSN which is gathered from the card
swipe. Can I make access automaticly hit enter when it hits the last
digit in this field, it will always be 11 digits (000-00-0000)? I wold
also need it to to fill in 2 other fields Date, and Time. I would need
the exact Date and time of the swipe or entry. How do I pull from the
PC's time to do this. At the moment I have the Date field set for
defualt value =date() and the Time field default value set =time() but
it populates the date and time that right after the last entry. If
anyone has anything that would work please let me know. Thanks

[qtip]

Thank you guys very much I tried the after update before but I put it
under the Date and time ont the SSN.