asked on 2/11/2011

Partial Fild Search on Listbox

Hi Experts,

MS Access 2007, running on Win 2003 Server.

We have a listbox on a form for selecting records to display in that form - it contains a list of customer names. I know that hitting the first letter in the listbox will take me to the first record in the list starting with that letter but the list is getting quite long - is there a way that a user could input the first 3 characters into a text box, then for the listbox to go the first record matching (or near matching) those 3 characters?

Example:
User enters "sma" in text box, listbox contains "small" and "smart", so presented record would be "small"
User enters "smo" but there is no exact match, so record returned should be either previous or next best match

Any thoughts gratefully received.

Microsoft Access

Last Comment

redpoppy

2/15/2011

Rey Obrero (Capricorn1)

2/11/2011

use the change event of the textbox

private sub text0_change()
dim str as string, sql
str=str & me.text0.text

sql="select f1,f2 from table where f1 like '" & str & "*'"

me.listbox.rowsource=sql

end sub

redpoppy

2/12/2011

ASKER

Hi capricorn1 - thanks very much for such a speedy reply - I'll try it out over the weekend and get back to you.

redpoppy

2/14/2011

ASKER

Hi capricorn1 - thanks for replying, I've now had chance to have a look at your suggestion.

What I actually want to do is to take the 3 characters entered, do the look up in the list box, then if there is a match make it the selected record in the listbox i.e. I don't want to lose all the other records in the listbox by changing the rowsource - is that possible? Thanks again for your help.

Rey Obrero (Capricorn1)

2/14/2011

you are not going to lose the records in the listbox, you are just narrowing your search.

Rey Obrero (Capricorn1)

2/14/2011

post the rowsource of the listbox

redpoppy

2/14/2011

ASKER

sorry, I don't understand - if I'm replacing the value of the listbox rowsource (from your original code), then how are the other records going to be displayed?

Rey Obrero (Capricorn1)

2/14/2011

<if I'm replacing the value of the listbox rowsource (from your original code), then how are the other records going to be displayed? >

by setting back the the rowsource to the original rowsource without the filter.

redpoppy

2/14/2011

ASKER

The rowsource of the listbox can be one of several queries - the first 2 columns are always "cust_name" and "cust_id"

redpoppy

2/14/2011

ASKER

"by setting back the the rowsource to the original rowsource without the filter." OK, I see. That won't work for what I need to do - all the records in the listbox need to be displayed and I want to use the 3-chr search to go to the nearest record in the listbox, i.e. making it the current selected/displayed record

Rey Obrero (Capricorn1)

2/14/2011

what is the bound column of the listbox? what is the name of the listbox?

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2/14/2011

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redpoppy

2/14/2011

ASKER

OK - I think I see what you're getting at - to do a look-up on cust_name using the 3 chr input, then setting that cust_id as the current record in the list box? (cust_id is the bound field)

redpoppy

2/15/2011

ASKER

I based my solution on the code supplied by capricorn1 - I used the rowsource from the listbox as my dataset and did a look-up on it to find the record, then set this as the current record in the listbox. Thanks for your help, much appreciated