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    AfterUpdate SendEMail Macro

    Hello All:



    I have a Main tbl where I am storing a lookup leading to a User tbl. Within the User tbl I am maintaining:

    User Name, User E-Mail, Manager & Manager E-Mail

    I have set the Main tbl to display all of this information within its lookup, when a record is updated I was hoping to use this to notify the corresponding manager.

    In other words, if Bob is the user then Bob's manager Joe would be notified because this relationship is maintained within the User table when a record is updated.

    I have tried doing this various ways within the To field of SendEmail but no matter what I try it doesn't work. I typically get an error stating that "User" isn't defined. So =([Users].[ManagerEMail]) doesn't work and I cannot seem to define a path to [ManagerEMail] from the [Users] defined within my Main tbl which I suspect to be my issue. Not sure if there's a syntax to move you through specific columns within a lookup.

    I suppose I could just add the manager's e-mail directly to the form that populates the tbl but I'd like to see if there's a way to leverage the existing relationship that already exists within my User tbl.

    Any ideas would be much appreciated, thanks.

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    What is the RecordSource of the form?

    The easiest way to take advantage of the 'relationship' might be to include the Manager and ManagerEMail fields in the form's RecordSource. Even if the fields are not in textboxes, can refer to RecordSource fields of the current record.

    If those fields are not included with the form RecordSource, use DLookup function.
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    gdgonzal is offline Novice
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    The record source for my form is the Main tbl. I can't use DLookup because it's not availble within the expression builder of SendEMail because this is a Web Database; my apologizes for not being more explicit about this.

    The real issue here is that the only way to get things done in a web database is to use macros. I see a Look Up macro that seems promising but I have no idea how to defined the Where portion. (see pic)

    I have also tried using explicit columns since my user name in my Main tbl eminates for my user tbl I thought I could just scroll to their manager's e-mail in the To field of SendEMail but I received an error saying it wasn't compatible with Web Databases.

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    If DLookup (or any aggregate functions) not available, I expect WHERE will have to refer to field of form RecordSource or a control on the form. Still don't understand what 'Main' table data is. Try including the User table in the form's RecordSource.
    How to attach file: http://www.accessforums.net/showthread.php?t=70301 To provide db: copy, remove confidential data, run compact & repair, zip w/Windows Compression.

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