Question

I have created a basic form in access that has a couple of buttons and text fields.
I want the button to do something along the lines of when I click it, it should bring up a browse file dialog and when I select a file, change the text field to the path of the file.

My question is how can I program this? Specifically, do I create a module that goes like?

sub command1_onClick()
  ..bla bla...
end sub

Or are forms programmed differently? How can I tie a function to a button?

Answer 1

You will want to look at the file dialog property.

Dim fDialog As Office.FileDialog

MSDN File Dialog

The above shows an example that is performed on a button click

The example adds the selected file to a listbox, for your situation you would want to use a simple textbox instead of the listbox.

You may want to set AllowMultiSelect to false to ignore the looping part if you only want one item. (this would simplify the code in the example for you.

.AllowMultiSelect = false

I may be a lil rusty but then you would want to do something like this(someone edit or correct me if I am way off)

Assuming you used varFile

(Dim varFile As Variant)

Me.TextBox1.Text = varFile

EDIT: After encountering error

It seems the error can come froma few things. Check to make sure the reference is there.
Also you may need to add the Microsoft DAO 3.6 Object Library reference.

See the "More information" section of this Link (Hopefully 2002 is close enough to 2003)
. It may have a few more helpful tips if that doesn’t solve the problem.