Question

I have the following situation: I built an Access form with a subform (which records are linked to the records of main form via certain key). When I try to delete any record in the subform, I get the following message: “Access has suspended the action because you and another user tried to change the data” (approximate translation from German). Does anyone know how to delete those records from the subform (and, respectively, from the table behind the form).

Answer 1

If you are currently ‘editing’ the current form then it will not allow the action. Editing a record can sometimes be triggered by simply clicking inside a field, or other simple actions you wouldn’t normally consider ‘editing’.

This is usually avoided in Access by using the RunCommand method to undo any edits before deleting the record:

DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdUndo