Question

I have a very simple query that only returns one record. When I try to get the value out of the only column in the only record, I get “Either BOF or EOF is True, or the current record has been deleted. Requested operation requires a current record.” What’s going on here? The code that is causing the error doesn’t even execute if RecordCount is 0 and I have verified that the recordset does in fact contain a record.

Code is below. Error is thrown when trying to set strDN. It’s so dead simple but I can’t figure out where I’m going wrong.

EDITED TO INCLUDE COMMAND

<LDAP://DC=something,DC=com>;(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(!userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2)(employeeID=01234567));distinguishedName;subtree

Set adoRecordset = adoCommand.Execute


    If adoRecordset.RecordCount > 0 Then


        strDN = adoRecordset.Fields("distinguishedName").Value

        Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & strDN)

        objGroup.add(objUser.ADsPath)

    End if

Answer 1

The recordcount property leaves the cursor at the end of the recordset, so you cannot then obtain the record (eof=true), you must movefirst. Use a different cursor type, because the default cursor type is forward only:

'' Assign cursorType that allows forward and backward movement.
adoRecordset.cursorType = 3 ''adOpenStatic

See https://www.w3schools.com/asp/prop_rs_cursortype.asp