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    beesee is offline Novice
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    Question Getting the Control Source Name of the Active Control vs Form Name of the control

    I have control source on a form [ProjectDescription] and the Form Name is also ProjectDescription.

    Public FilterCtl As String has been previously declared.



    On my Form I enter into a the control which triggers this:

    Code:
    Private Sub ProjectDescription_Enter()
        Me.ActiveControl.SetFocus
        FilterCtl = Screen.ActiveControl.Name
        
    End Sub
    Then I move to a text box and enter key words and press a control button:

    Code:
    Private Sub cmdFilterKey_Click()
    
    Me.Filter = FilterCtl & " Like " & Chr(34) & "*" & Me.TextKeyWords & "*" & Chr(34)
       Me.FilterOn = True
       Me.Requery
       
    End Sub
    This all works fine.

    My question is the use of "Screen.ActiveControl.Name". This gets the form name of the control. It only works in Me.Filter if that name is the same as the actual control source itself. How do I get it to work if the name of the control source field name is different than the control name. For instance the form name of [ProjectDescription] is ProjDesc?

    I can't figure out what to use in place of FilterCtl = Screen.ActiveControl.Name

    Thanks in advance.
    Last edited by beesee; 02-16-2016 at 01:48 PM. Reason: Wrapped code

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    Does this function always running based on the same control for the filter? Would the Kludge of [Forms]![yourformname].form!ProjectDescription or something of that nature work?

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    beesee is offline Novice
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    Thanks for the input Perceptus. However if I use [Forms]![yourformname].form!ProjectDescription it returns the actual text contents of the field. I need to return the actual [Control Source]

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    If you want the ControlSource, ask the Access Gnomes for it:

    FilterCtl = Screen.ActiveControl.ControlSource

    Or have I misunderstood your question?

    Linq ;0)>
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    beesee is offline Novice
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    Thank you Missinglinq! Well that was simple, it works fine. I did not try that because ControlSource was not an option that appeared in the menu after typing in Screen.Activecontrol. Maybe the choice is not there because of my older version of access? Time to upgrade I guess .

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