Question

I have two tables tied by a foreign key. Example:

Customer -> CustomerType

I’ve created a form where I have a dropdown for each customer. Dropdown contains all customer types. Now, sometimes person who enters data wants to add new customer type to that customer without leaving the form. is there a way to have a free text input in dropdown and automatically creating a record in the db if it does not exist? or is there a way of having “new…” option which will expose textbox to enter new group name?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Assuming your dropdown is a combo box, use its On Not In List event. Allen Browne has sample code you can adapt: Option 1: Not In List event

If your dropdown is a list box, I don’t know how to do it without opening another form.