Get ID of Recently Insterted Record

How do you insert the record into the payment table? Manually, or via code?

Via Code

       on a textbox
Me.Textbox=DMax("pay_ID","Payment")

Can you post the code that you are using to add the record?

So if your table structure is like this...

tblpayment
pay_ID----1---              tblpayment_cash
                   |              Payment_cashID
                    _____oo_Pay_ID

You only need to create two forms - one for each table.

frmpayment  would be the Parent Form
sfrmpayment_cash  would be the Child Form

you could make sfrmpayment_cash a subform on frmpayment.
then you would link master and child records with the pay_ID field.
This would create the link/relationship

You can also use a Tab control on your form to keep things pretty if need be.


Is this what you were looking for?

Cheers
M

capricorn - this db is a multiple user - i know the odds are slim that some one else would get in there, but i was hoping there was another way

The code i'm using to insert the record is nothing special -I've just created a recordset and done the INSERTs by creating SQL strings.

The way the data is setup makes it difficult to use two forms for the insert. Is there someway to get back the record that was inserted? So way of tracking how the insert affected the table?

Thanks

looks like it will work, thanks

I still have the concern that someone else could modify the table and i'll grab the wrong ID. If this is the only way to do it - I guess I'm stuck

>>shanesuebsahakarn
RE: Is there someway to get back the record that was inserted? So way of tracking how the insert affected the table?

Could you not store the last ID in a global variable for use on the next update?
Do you update/insert using the ID from the global variable...
then once the update was successful get rid of the variable being stored and send a message that it was successful?

???

yes i definitely could - i know it's probably crazy, but I don't like the idea that someone else could enter a record and screw up the last ID

Can a single user lock and then unlock the table? - just to ensure that two people can't edit the table at the same time

jamoparisi, my comment above was directed to Emanon_Consulting, just in case there's any confusion :)

>>shanesuebsahakarn - I wasn't suggesting you were wrong - just inquiring about options...
Thanks for the note
;-D
Cheers
M

I wasn't suggesting that you were suggesting I was wrong :-) Just explaining why I'd choose to do it this way, is all.

Didn't I read somewhere that you sleep???
<grin>
I'm going there now...Catch you tomorrow! (or at least I'll try)
;-D
Cheers
M

Hey guys I came up with this solution - let me know what you think

Dim Db As Database
Dim recPay As Recordset

Dim strDiscount As String
Dim strAmount As String

Dim tempPayID As Integer

Set Db = CurrentDb


Set recPay = Db.OpenRecordset("payment")

'the function AddNew created a new record with the default value and stores it in a buffer, it does not save it to disk until the function update is called

recPay.AddNew

tempPayID = recPay("pay_ID")

recPay("personal_ID") = Forms!frm_main.personal_ID
recPay("reg_ID") = Forms!payMain.comboReg.Column(2)
recPay("status") = "Completed"
recPay("payment_type") = "Discount"

recPay.Update

strDiscount = "INSERT INTO pay_discount (type, amount, staff, pay_ID, notes) VALUES ('"
strDiscount = strDiscount & Me.txtType & "', " & Me.txtAmount & ", '" & Forms!payNewDiscount.comboStaff & "', "
strDiscount = strDiscount & tempPayID & ", '" & Me.txtNotes & "')"


Db.Execute (strDiscount)


Do you see any problems with this solution?

Thanks,

James

Looks okay to me if it's working for you :) Can't think of any problems off the top of my head.