Thursday, January 26, 2006

TIP: Command Button on a Datasheet Form
Access 2000 or Later

A simple technique for placing a psuedo-command button on a Datasheet:

1. Create a query for the form's RecordSource

2. Add a calculated column/field to the query, for example:

Edit: IIf([Status]<>"Closed","Edit","")

Drag the field on to the form as a TextBox

3. Set the TextBox's Is Hyperlink property to Yes

4. Add a procedure to the TextBox's OnClick Event, for example:

Private Sub Edit_Click()
With CodeContextObject
DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdSaveRecord
If (Not IsNull(.IssueID) And .Status <> "Closed") Then
DoCmd.OpenForm "EditIssues", acNormal, "", "[IssueID]=" & .IssueID, , acNormal
End If
End With
End Sub

The Datasheet will look like this:



3 comments:

Dooby Duck said...

Thank you ever so much for this. Amazing really but I'd never noticed the 'Is Hyperlink' property before

Surendra said...

excellent post...i would never have thought of doing that...

trkaplan said...

Excellent! Thanks.