Question

Consider those two tables in Access 2010:

ActionReg

ActionID     Taskt1     Actiont1  
    1          t1         t1a1  
    2          t2         t2a1   
    3          t3         t3a1
    4          t1         t1a2 
    5          t1         t1a3
    6          t2         t2a2

TaskReg

ActionID     Taskt2     Actiont2  
    1          t1         
    2          t2         
    3          t3 

I give the field Actiont2 the following properties (in Lookup tab in Design View):

• Display Control = ListBox
• Row Source Type = Table/Query

Now I want this query to retrive from Actiont1 into Actiont2 the records related only to the value of Task2 so the result will be:

TaskReg

ActionID     Taskt2     Actiont2  
    1          t1       (t1a1,t1a2,t1a3)  
    2          t2       (t2a1,t2a2)  
    3          t3       (t3a1)  

I used:

SELECT ActionReg.Action1  
FROM ActionReg, TaskReg 
WHERE [ActionReg]![Task1]=[TaskReg]![Task2]; 

But it retrives all records in Action1 if Task1 = any record in Task2.

Answer 1

Try using INNER JOIN in your Query.