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    Spacle is offline Novice
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    Need Help Editing Drop Down on User Form

    Hi! I am good with Excel but I have very little Access experience and I have inherited an Access file that I need to update. We use the Access file as a ticketing system, to allow employees to go in and create "work tickets" for a department using a User Form.



    I need to update the Employees Table so that when people go to submit a ticket, and they click on the drop down box for "Created By" that they see an up-to-date list of our employees. The list is currently very out of date. I can go in to the table and add a new employee easily enough. My issue is that I want to remove employees that no longer work for us from the possibilities in the "Created By" drop down list, however I don't want to delete them from the Employees table because for historical purposes I may need to see who the creator of an old ticket was, and it could of course, be an employee that no longer works with us.

    So I need a solution to edit the Employees table in a way that leaves everyone in the table, yet also allows me to indicate on a record that they are no longer an active employee, and exclude them from the "Created By" drop down list since they don't work for us anymore. For example, could I add a column to my Employees table called "Status" and then make everyone either "Active" or "Inactive" and then somehow tell the combo box to only display people with a Status of "Active"?

    Can anyone tell me how to accomplish this?

    Thanks in advance!
    Spacle

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    ranman256 is offline VIP
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    I put a button beside the drop down, "edit"
    it opens the Empoyee form/table, add new records.
    close the form
    now on the form with the combo , click the REFRESH ALL button on the toolbar.

    now all new entries will show.

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    Spacle is offline Novice
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    Hi ranman256! Thanks for the reply! I am able to add people to the table, I need to know how to remove people from the drop down list without removing them from the table itself. Any ideas?

    Thanks in advance!

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    hammerman is offline Advanced Beginner
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    Novice Access user here; Have you tried adding a yes/no field for each record and when that box is checked/not checked then don't show that record. Forum Moderators can veto that suggestion if it's not a 'good' option. Any feed back is welcome; I'm learning too.

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    Spacle is offline Novice
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    Hi hammerman! I am totally open to doing that, as that is basically what I was assuming would be the answer (i.e. adding a column with a value that identifies which ones are active versus inactive) but I don't know how to control what the combo box is showing. At the moment, it appears to be showing everything in the table, and I need to know how to tell it to only show records that have, for example, "Active" in the status column.

    Thanks for the reply!

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    ssanfu is offline Master of Nothing
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    I would add another field named "IsActive" (type "Yes/No") to tblEmployees.
    Set the field "IsActive" to True/False for each employee.
    Then change the combo box Row Source to include a WHERE Clause.
    Something like
    Code:
    SELECT Employee_PK, LName & ", " & FName as FullName 
    FROM Employees
    WHERE IsActive = TRUE
    Close as I can get without knowing the combo box Row Source......

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