formsms-accesscomboboxms-access-2007

How to populate the value of a Text Box based on the value in a Combo Box in MS Access 2007?


I have a combo box which is of a lookup type, i.e., I've selected the source to be a column from a table and am storing the selected value in another table. The table which I am looking up has another column and I need the value in this column to be displayed in a text box and each time I change the value in the combo box, I need the corresponding value to be displayed in the text box. How can I do this? What I have done so far is to write a Select query that selects the appropriate column based on the combo box's value. Is there a more decent way of doing this? Please help me!


Solution

  • Make the source of the combo box to your 2 fields e.g. SELECT id, name FROM Customers
    Make sure you set the Column Count property of the combo to 2 and Column Widths like 0";1", accordingly.
    Then make your unbound text box source equal to =MyCombo.Column(1) (from memory, this Column index is zero based).
    That's it, zero code required.