Clear text box when opening a form

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SylvieB

In Access 2007, I'm using the "column History" feature to maintain a list of
previous comments. On a form, the user will enter some comments in the
"Activity" text box and the column history will return the data with a date
and time stamp. This works great. My question is, how can I clear the
comments the user entered previously in the "Activity" text box next time he
opens the form? The user over a period of time will continue adding comments
and each time he has to manually clear it. That's probably an easy code to
write but I don't know VBA.
Thank you in advance for any help.
 
Sylvie

How depends on what...

You're describing a form, which in Access, is used to display data that's
stored in one/more tables. What is the table structure for that data?

And on your form, is your [Activity] textbox control bound to any of the
underlying fields? And your [ColumnHistory] ...?

And I'm guessing there's some code behind the [Activity] textbox control
that updates the [ColumnHistory]...?

More info, please...

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Access MVP

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Sylvie

Another potential "wrinkle"...

By stuffing a lot of date/timestamped comments into a memo field using that
..ColumnHistory method, you may be making it harder on yourself.

Since there's (obviously!) a one-to-many relationship (many comments related
to ?some record, you might want to consider using a table to hold those
comments. The [Comments] table could be as simple as:

tblComment
CommentID (a PK)
YourTableID (a FK -- to which row does this comment belong)
CommentDateTime (use something like Now() as a default value)
Comment (unless verbose, the 255 character limit in a text field
might suffice)

This way, you can find all the comments related to a given row (in
YourTable).

And the more common way do display this is using a main form (for YourTable
data), and a subform, to display the comments related to the row displayed
in the main form.

Good luck!

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Access MVP

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Disclaimer: This author may have received products and services mentioned
in this post. Mention and/or description of a product or service herein
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guarantee as to suitability.

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possible/necessary.
 
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