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Glenn Kraniske
4 months ago

Greetings All,
So I have a database where I'm tracking inventory of Fishing Poles. Not having any issues but I'm like to take it a step further. I have a conbo box (pull down box) that only has selectable options of YES or NO. Here's what I want to happen, if the user clicks the NO option, nothing happens. However if the user selects the YES option, I'd like another field to appear where a receipt number can be added. Is there a way to do this? I've been all over YouTube and I'm coming up dry. Thanks so much in advance.

-Glenn

Adam Schwanz
4 months ago

Just make an AfterUpdate on the combo box with an if statement, if its yes make the text box visible, otherwise make the textbox not visible.

Richard Rost
4 months ago

I do something almost exactly like this in Access Developer 1. If you check a box that says "shipping address same as billing" then it copies over the address info to the other fields. You'd do the same thing, just change the .Visible property of the boxes you want to show/hide.

Glenn Kraniske
4 months ago

So I did what Adam said but I found an issue.  What's happening is if I click the YES option, the appropriate field appears.  But when I move to the next record the field is still visible even though the NO option is chosen.  Here's my code;

Private Sub FishingPoleSold_AfterUpdate()
    If Me.FishingPoleSold = "1" Then
    Me.SoldTo.Visible = True
    Else
    Me.SoldTo.Visible = False
End If
End Sub

Kevin Robertson
4 months ago

You will also need to use the OnCurrent Event

Glenn Kraniske
4 months ago

OnCurrentEvent? Where do I put the code and am I using the same code?

Adam Schwanz
4 months ago

Go to the form properties, on current event. And yes you can use the same code.

Adam Schwanz
4 months ago

Richard Rost
4 months ago

Watch the video Kevin suggested

Glenn Kraniske
4 months ago

Got it! Works great, thanks. By the way, that video was exactly what I needed.

Richard Rost
4 months ago

If you liked that, consider the rest of the Developer series. You'd be surprised how many cool things you can do with Access once you know how. :)

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