Using a combo box to open a form in edit

[gopher]

I had a form that has a combo box that I could open and click on a member whose data I need to change. This form worked perfectly until after an automatic "Office" update occurred. Now the form returns the name in the combo box but does not fill in the form such that I can make needed changes. I can cycle through all the names until I find the name I need to change, but that is a pain in the a**. What happened?

The code used is where "qname" is the name of the unbound combo box which when I click on it should return the form with all the data on it. I tried the system restore. This did not cure the problem.

Private Sub qname_AfterUpdate()
Dim MyName As DAO.Recordset
Set MyName = Me.RecordsetClone
MyName.FindFirst "[LastName] = '" & Me.qname & "'"
If MyName.NoMatch Then
MsgBox "Name Not Found"
Else


Me.Bookmark = MyName.Bookmark

End If
End Sub

[June7]

That is odd. Have you tried Compact & Repair?

What are properties of the combobox? RowSource, ColumnCount, ColumnWidths, BoundColumn

Why use LastName instead of ID for search? What if there are multiple members with same last name?

It isn't necessary to declare and set DAO recordset object.

Private Sub qname_AfterUpdate()
With Me.RecordsetClone
.FindFirst "[LastName] = '" & Me.qname & "'"
If .NoMatch Then
MsgBox "Name Not Found"
Else
Me.Bookmark = .Bookmark
End If
End With
End Sub

[gopher]

I tried compact and repair on the computer at home - No go. Then I tried a different approach. I created a new DB using the table and form. The table of the new db worked as before until, because the close button did not work, I deleted the closed button and created a new closed button. Then the closed button worked ok but the form did not return the data when I tried it again. One more thing I took my flash drive to the club's computer where everything from the original worked fine. The pc at the club has W8 where my home pc is W7. I think the "compact & repair should have worked but it did not. There is something else at play here and I am not sure I'll be able to solve it. Any off the wall suggestions? Cause I am about to throw it all against the wall.

[June7]

Maybe reinstall Access or even W7?

[gopher]

I have been thinking that would be my next step. But, what a pain a W7 reinstall will be. I'll try Access first. An off the wall question first. In Access 2010 what replaced "MS DAO 3.6 Object Library" and can I use it's replacement with the code I submitted initially?

[June7]

Review http://allenbrowne.com/ser-29.html. Same library and the original code should work as is, although declaring DAO recordset object is not necessary to use recordsetclone in this procedure.

[Missinglinq]

...The table of the new db worked as before until...I created a new closed button then...the form did not return the data when I tried it again...

A new quirk in Access (like it needed another quirk!) that has appeared, fairly recently, on a number of forums, involves code/macros running, when switching from Design View to Form View, but not running if the Form is then closed and re-opened directly in Form View! It turns out that the Redmond developers assumed that if your are working from 'inside' Access, as it were, you were 'trust-worthy,' so code will run, even if the Folder holding the file hasn't been declared as a 'Trusted' site! But when opened directly, that Folder needs to have that 'Trusted' attribute in place.

Maybe the Office update has de-certified the 'Trusted' status; I'd check that and reset it, if necessary.

Linq ;0)>