Table Lookup Specify Form

[Gary Smith]

I defined a table lookup for a field in field rules. I specified the form I wanted to use to enter new records. During data entry, the lookup window opens and I click on the popup window's Enter button to display the data entry form I want to use to add another record to the lookup table. The form opens but is blank. What am I missing? If I use the default form, it works fine. Thanks.

[whanigsberg]

RE: Table Lookup Specify Form

Hi Gary,

I don't know what is askew in your case but FYI I do what you are trying to do all the time without issue.

Since the default works and your custom form doesn't, have you tried making a new custom form, even if it just a saved and renamed copy of the default. The enter form pops up in dialog mode (I think) and I have read accounts of code attached to form events interacting (and interfering) with forms opened in dialog mode.

Sorry I can't be more helpful.

Bill

[John Lemisch]

RE: Table Lookup Specify Form

If I understand you, when you open the desired form to
enter a NEW record, it should be blank. If you enter the
information, then save the record and then go back to
the form to "change", is the data still there? If so,
it is working. Need more....call me

[Gary Smith]

RE: Table Lookup Specify Form

The Entry Form itself is blank, no fields, no nothing. I created 2 small test tables and defined a lookup with an Entry form. It worked fine. I think that the problem might be related to the use of the form's OnKey event. My form has 2 conditional objects. COND1 has 2 browses and 1 subform. COND2 has 2 forms. When I click on the Enter button on the popup window, the OnKey code is perhaps preventing the Entry Form from displaying ? I'll keep you posted.

[Gary Smith]

RE: Table Lookup Specify Form

It's not the OnKey event that's causing the problem. I removed all of the OnKey code, saved the form and tried to enter a new record. Same problem.

The set I use is a one to many. One parent table and one child table. The problem with the blank lookup entry form occurs when I enter a new child record using a subform. That's the next area to look at.

Will keep you posted.

[Gary Smith]

RE: Table Lookup Specify Form

It's not the subform. I entered a new record using the child table's default form. Same problem. I'm using build 221. I will download build 230. Later.

[whanigsberg]

RE: Table Lookup Specify Form

Gary,

For the little that it's worth, I'm using 221 as well.

Bill

[Gary Smith]

RE: Table Lookup Specify Form

I found the problem and do I feel stupid. The entry form had an embedded browse on it. I removed the embedded browse and now it works just fine. Still using build 221. Thanks for your help.
Gary

[whanigsberg]

RE: Table Lookup Specify Form

Gary,

It's a complex environment with a zillion interacting factors. So easy to overlook one.....

Bill

[Peter.Greulich]

RE: Table Lookup Specify Form

You gotta love this bunch of A5 diehards!

Two guys are up at midnight, another responds at 5:00AM; they get 2 or 3 hours sleep and then they go at it again!

Now that's dedication!

[whanigsberg]

RE: Table Lookup Specify Form

Ah Peter,

So fine is the line separating dedication from dysfunctionality and so difficult to know which side of the line one is on!

Bill

[forskare]

RE: Table Lookup Specify Form

How's this go....

"No rest for the die hards and the dysfunctionalites don't need any!

So, Bill the side of the line we're on is in the eye of the beholder since we'er too tired to know the difference.

ken

[csda1]

RE: Table Lookup Specify Form

And then there are those that have young children that are up at 4am anyway, so they might as well get a few lines of code in anyway! {:?)

Regards,

Ira

[forskare]

RE: Table Lookup Specify Form

And there are those of us who wake up at 2 or 3 thinking about work and can't get back to sleep so what's another hour or two on the machine and then a quick nap before 6?

The moral of the story? We love to develop and tinker, explore new possibilities and stretch our horizons. Folks like you are way ahead of folks like me so I enjoy following your expertise and making notes.

ken

[CALocklin]

RE: Table Lookup Specify Form

FYI: It's been awhile since this issue was raised but I was using Search to finda a solution to a similar problem. Mine was that a blank screen came up only when using a lookup table with a specified form and entering a new record in the lookup table. The difference was that my lookup form did not have a browse table.

The only way around this was to first perform a change operation on one of the lookup entries in order to get the correct form to appear. (Didn't have to save the change - just start it so the form appeared.) After that I could perform an enter operation and everything would work fine no matter how long the program was open.

After reading the solution to Gary's problem, I went back to my form and discovered an OnFetch event I had forgotten about. After deleting the event, all works well again.