I have an Access Query that requiers a value to be set in a combo-box within a form in order to work
Criteria: Forms![_SelectCustomer]![CmbSelectCustomer]
So far so good, however, I would like the query to open, read and close this form programatically when it is run using a macro.
I have been following @David-W-Fenton's answer in THIS similar stack overflow question and have come up with the following code:
Public Function rtnSelectCustomer() As Variant
DoCmd.OpenForm "_SelectCustomer", , , , , acDialog
With Forms![_SelectCustomer]
If .Tag <> "Cancel" Then
rtnSelectCustomer = Nz(!CmbSelectCustomer, "*")
Else
rtnSelectCustomer = "*"
End If
End With
Close acForm, "_SelectCustomer"
End Function
I call this function from within the criteria field of the property I want to filter by in the Query:
Like rtnSelectCustomer()
At this point I run into several problems:
The first being, I'm not sure where to place the actual code: I can't seem to create a specific class or module for my query within the "Microsoft Access Class Objects" folder so I have resorted to creating my own module within the Modules folder. (Is this the correct approach?)
The second issue is that when I run the query with the code in the current module I have created I get the following error:
Run-time error '2486': You can't carry out this action at the present time.
Any advice would be much appreciated
Edit:
I should clarify that after further testing the line that seems to cause the Run-time error is the following:
DoCmd.OpenForm "_SelectCustomer", , , , , acDialog
The function is actually called as replacing the internal code with the following does actually work (although is admittedly useless)
Public Function rtnSelectCustomer() As Variant
rtnSelectCustomer
End Function