Help Solving Runtime Error Only In Compiled Version

[AccessN00b]

Greetings. My apologies for starting out my posting history here with a cry for help but I'm just getting started with MS Access and I think I've over reached myself. I created a form that can update a table with new entries and I was really pleased with myself when I got it to work. So next I used Access Runtime to turn it into an installed package and then installed it on my computer. But I found that the installed version didn't work. When I clicked the update button that previously worked in development I received an error message that says:
"Execution of this application has stopped due to a run-time error. This application can't continue and will be shut down".

All indications are that this is the line it doesn't like:
CurrentDb.Execute "Insert Into table(System, Type, Error, Response, Purge) Values ('" & Me.updSystem & "', '" & Me.updType & "', '" & Me.updError & "', '" & Me.updAction & "', '" & check & "')"



If anyone can guide this rookie in the right direction I'd be grateful. Thanks in advance.

[pbaldy]

I'd start with error trapping so you'll at least get the actual error number/description:

http://www.baldyweb.com/ErrorTrap.htm

[AccessN00b]

I'd start with error trapping so you'll at least get the actual error number/description:

http://www.baldyweb.com/ErrorTrap.htm

Thanks Paul. With your added code the message now reads "Operation must use an updateable query". Don't know what that means and I find it confusing that this logic works in MS Access but not as an installed product.

[pbaldy]

That is odd. Is the runtime version linked to a read only back end perhaps?

[AccessN00b]

That is odd. Is the runtime version linked to a read only back end perhaps?

If it is it wasn't by my design. I did notice however that the first time I ran the installed version a message appeared across the top saying "This database has been opened read-only. You can only change data in linked tables. To make design changes, save a copy of the database." I assumed that was standard since I didn't knowlingly set it up that way and I figured I was okay because it did say that I could still make changes to linked tables which I assumed meant the table that was part of this project.

[AccessN00b]

Well the good news is that I solved the error problem. I went back and looked at the install wizard settings and noticed that for the root install folder I picked the Program folder which I preferred but I noticed that next to that option were the words "read-only on Vista". Now I'm not using Vista but I figured "what the heck I'll change it anyways" so I set the root install folder to Desktop instead and voila problem solved.

But the bad news is that this exposed a new problem that, like the previous one, only occurs in the installed version: any new record that is added to the table via the form isn't viewable in that form until I close the entire program and reopen it. I'm guessing that, somehow, after adding a new record to a table I have to refresh the table maybe?

[AccessN00b]

Well the good news is that I solved the error problem. I went back and looked at the install wizard settings and noticed that for the root install folder I picked the Program folder which I preferred but I noticed that next to that option were the words "read-only on Vista". Now I'm not using Vista but I figured "what the heck I'll change it anyways" so I set the root install folder to Desktop instead and voila problem solved.

But the bad news is that this exposed a new problem that, like the previous one, only occurs in the installed version: any new record that is added to the table via the form isn't viewable in that form until I close the entire program and reopen it. I'm guessing that, somehow, after adding a new record to a table I have to refresh the table maybe?

Ah! Figured it out. Needed an Me.Requery call after the update ran.

[pbaldy]

Sorry for the delay, I went out with my wife last night. Glad you got it sorted out.

[AccessN00b]

Sorry for the delay, I went out with my wife last night. Glad you got it sorted out.

You keeping accompanying women places and spending time away from computers and you'll give programmers a bad name.

[pbaldy]

LOL! I had my iPhone with me; does that count?