Accessing a linked table

MS Access 97 is used for everything.
I might use a wrong term, but by VB I meant Visual Basic used to create procedures in the Access module.
I need to get a number of records in the linked table first and then go through each record and do some processing.

I have used linked tables from a VB program and never experienced a problem.  There are retrictions on modifying the table definition, but I haven't had any problems accessing data.

I have not tried accessing linked tables from VBA within Access, but I would be surprised if you have to do anything special within your code.

I don't think I'm going to be much help for you on this one.

Could you provide the code, or parts of it, that gives you the problem. I have worked a lot on linked tables and could perhaps be of some assistants.

Function splitStyleOptions()
Dim db  As Database
Dim rsOptions As Recordset, rsFeatures As Recordset, rsIDs As Recordset, rsStyles As Recordset
Dim strBuf As String, tok As String
Dim i As Long, j As Long, m As Long, n As Long, cnt As Long

Set db = CurrentDb()
'
' Empty Styles-Features table
db.Execute ("delete from [Available IDs]")
'
Set rsIDs = db.OpenRecordset("Available IDs")
Set rsFeatures = db.OpenRecordset("Available Features", dbOpenTable)
Set rsOptions = db.OpenRecordset("select count(*) as RecNum from [Options]")
m = SysCmd(acSysCmdInitMeter, "Processing Available Features..", rsOptions.RecNum)
rsOptions.Close

...

Execution stops with a message: "Method or data member not found" and rsOptions.RecNum highlighted (in SysCmd statement). It always stops at the first call to a member of rsOptions.

It seems to me like it is the RecNum that gives you the problem and not the linked table itself.

If you are trying to set the status bars maximum number you could try the following.

rsOptions.movelast ' Ensure correct record number
m = SysCmd(acSysCmdInitMeter, "Processing Available Features..", rsOptions.RecordCount) ' Set to the number of the last record.

rsOptions.movefirst ' Go to the top again.

...


Hope this helps !
Trygve

Nope. As I said in a previous comment, execution stops after the first call to a member of rsOptions - if it's not RecNum as in my sample code, then it's a first member accessed in a subsequent selects. Sorry.

Sorry about. In my eager to answer the question I read your comment about getting the number of records and from there came my answer.

Remember when refering to fields in a table/recordset object you should use MyRecs!Field instead of MyRecs.Field   The "." is reserved for properties and events and the "!" is for field references.


What happens if you make a query with the same SQL statement "select count(*) as RecNum from [Options]" Does it return anything ?

You're right about "!" vs "." - it solved the problem.
Please pick up the points. Thanks!