Link Subform with Replication ID

[mreiter]

I want to link a form and a subform based on a common ID field. I have linked the Master/Child fields and added an event procedure such that when I select a new entry on the master form, the subform updates automatically with the corresponding entries. This works perfectly when the ID field size in both tables is set to Long Integer, but when i try to set the ID field size to Replication ID, the subform is shows up blank. I've tried this for existing tables and also creating tables from scratch. Is there any reason that the Replication ID size should keep a subform from updating properly?

[kennejd]

Why would you use Replication ID?

[mreiter]

I want to use the replication ID because i have a similar database in SQL (which uses the same alphanumeric format for ID fields) and I thought it would be easier to integrate the data at a later date if I needed to. I realize that the replication ID is not always the most appropriate data type/field size, but I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work just the same.