manfre
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| Posted: 05/09/2008, 6:28 AM |
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Any help would be appreciated -
I'm trying to set a date/time control to NULL only IF the user_id listbox field is NULL. I would like to perform this once a user clicks the 'submit' button.
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DaveSause
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| Posted: 05/09/2008, 1:04 PM |
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Use a before insert or a before update event.
If flduser_id is null then
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DaveSause
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| Posted: 05/09/2008, 1:04 PM |
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Use a before insert or a before update event.
If flduser_id is null then
flddatetime = null
end if
this will take a little effort in the datebase, I found I had to put default values in the database and deal with a lot of syntax issues where it was difficult to get CC to tell me what was going on. For example if user_id is text, is it truly null, equal to null string ("") or equal to a space (" ") - any of the three are possible, so you have to identify which is happening. Is it syntacially correct to say datetime = null in your database? Access accepts this, but then sets it to something line 00/00/0000 12:00:01 within the datebase.
I had cases where I made the default 1/27/1948 11:00:00 (my birthday) so it was locateable, but not out of bounds for date and time functions. The big thing is the test must find what you consider a blank user_id and then set the date/time to what you define as a null value. On output, you can always convert 1/27/1948 to something like "NO INFORMATION" to highlight no input, or exclude values or whatever.
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manfre
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| Posted: 05/12/2008, 10:32 AM |
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Thanks Dave for your reply.
Probably easier to give you some details of the project:
I created a simple MS Access DB to track PC Ownership - users can signout machines for use and selecting their name and entering an expiration date for how long they need the machine.
When a user signs in a machine, the change the USER_ID list box to value 'sign-in' (use to be 'select value', so basically setting USER_ID to null).
My goal was to set the SIGNOUT_TO field to NULL if USED_ID was was set to 'sign-in' (NULL).
I'm using an Access DB, and I created an update query to test before using in CC. Here is my update query:
UPDATE SYSTEMS SET SYSTEMS.SIGNOUT_TO = Null
WHERE (((SYSTEMS.USER_ID) Is Null));
This works great through Access, but my question is how/where do I used this in CC? I'm new to using CC and I'm not sure where this SQL query would go.
I have CC to use ASP..not sure if this info helps.
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manfre
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| Posted: 05/12/2008, 11:06 AM |
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Had another question, but forget to mention - one a different CC topic, is there a way to display a 'disabled' listbox value a different color? I need to use the listbox but I would like the text listed in the disabled listbox to be black instead of the greyed out color. Thanks!
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