VBA code for unbound column in combo box

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Amanda

In an animal management database, I have a form where a combo box offers
selections of all the species in the species table. The combo box displays
the species name (my 2nd column), but the value of the combo box is bound to
the species ID (the 1st column, 0" width).

I need to use the species name to pass on to a report generated by this
form, but currently when I call Me.Species_Name (name of the combo box) I get
the species ID (which is nice for other things I am doing). Can I call the
value of the unbound column for the same record?

Thanks, Amanda
 
To get the value of the second column of the selected row of the combo box,
use

Me.Species_Name.Column(1)

(The Column collection starts numbering at 0)
 
If you just want to refer to column 2 of the combo on the form, you could
put something like this in the Control Source of a text box on your report:
=[Forms].[Form1].[Species_Name]

If you need to get the species name matching each entry in the report, you
will need to use a query as the source for the report. Include the lookup
table in that query (i.e. the table that supplies the RowSource for the
combo.) You can then get at the field that contains the names.
 
Thanks! That was easy.

Douglas J. Steele said:
To get the value of the second column of the selected row of the combo box,
use

Me.Species_Name.Column(1)

(The Column collection starts numbering at 0)
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