Combobox not filling

[sstiebinger]

Hi all, I have a bound combobox with 2 columns AccountID, AccountName, bound to column 1 and with rows set at 0",1".
This works great on the form... I select the combobox and it fills with all the account names, when I save, the accountID is stored in the table... Just like I wanted!

The issue I'm having is when I call the form from another form, I'm passing through AccountID from the calling form expecting that the combobox will then be pre-populated with the account info that was on the first form.
i.e.

Dim strLinkCriteria As String
strLinkCriteria = "[AccountID]=" & Forms!frmAccountDetail![AccountID]
DoCmd.OpenForm "frmAccountContactJoin", , , strLinkCriteria

However, when I call the form, the combobox (On frmAccountContactJoin) is not populated... what am I doing wrong?

[June7]

Need to review data structure and form design. If you want to provide db for analysis, follow instructions at bottom of my post.

[sstiebinger]

Attached is sample DB with everything I think is needed...

It should open to a continuous form "sfrmAccountList"
Double clicking the demo account in the account list will open an account detail form.
Clicking the opportunities tab, there's a "New" button which will open the new Opportunity form.
The new Opportunity form has the combobox "Account Name" which I would like to have pre-populated with the account ID from the Account Detail form that was calling it.

FYI, I know that the tables are horrendous... I'm working with someone else's back-end and creating a new front end... then I will go back and re-do the back-end... but we're still using the old front end in production until I complete the new front end...

[June7]

Why does Opporutinities tab disappear when cursor passes over? When I click it, the tab disappears and General tab shows. Both show a 'New' button. I find this confusing. I don't like and don't use Navigation form/control.

Your original post refers to frmAccountContactJoin but now you say to look at frmOpportunityDetail?

Okay, have the Opportunity form open. So you want to populate the AccountID field and initiate record. You are not passing the AccountID value by putting strLinkCriteria in the WHERE CONDITION argument, AccountID needs to be passed in the OpenArgs.

DoCmd.OpenForm "frmOpportunityDetail", , , , acFormAdd, , Me.AccountID

Then code in frmOpportunityDetail Current event:

If Me.NewRecord Then Me.AccountID = Me.OpenArgs

Remove tblAccounts_Vendors from the RecordSource. It doesn't appear to be needed and the INNER JOIN requires related records in both tables.

[sstiebinger]

The disappearing tabs is because the theme did not transfer when I copied the form... it's not how it appears on the original database.
I realize I spoke about a different form... I have several forms that exhibited this behavior, and this one seems most expedient for creating an example database from.

I didn't realize I needed to use OpenArgs... I will test that method, thank you.

[sstiebinger]

That works, thanks.