Question

I’m trying to display a recordset that is created programmatically. But I’m having problems binding the controlsource to the recordset fields.

The following code outputs “#Error” in the FirstField textbox.

Option Compare Database
Option Explicit

Private Sub Form_Load()
    Dim rs As ADODB.Recordset
    Set rs = New ADODB.Recordset

    With rs.Fields
        .Append "A", adInteger
        .Append "B", adInteger
        .Append "C", adInteger
    End With

    rs.Open

    With rs
      .AddNew
        ![a] = 1
        ![b] = 1
        ![c] = 1
      .Update
    End With

    rs.Clone

    Set Me.Recordset = rs
    Me.FirstField.ControlSource = rs.Fields(0).Name 'outputs #Error in FirstField
End Sub

Help is much appreciated!

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What I’m trying to do

I have a database which represent used parking spaces in a parking lot. A,B,C are position coordinates each of these have a validation rule set so they cannot exceed their limits. Now I want to display all available parking spaces.
So I figured I’d create a “fake” database with all parking spaces and then do a query-thing where I only display entires from the fake database where the position is not in the “used parking space” database.

Creating a database with only the positions seemed silly to me and populating the “used parking space” database with all parking spaces and then adding a used boolean field also seemed like a bad idea.

I welcome input on how I could solve this in a better way.

Thank you for you time.

Answer 1

From your comment, I see you intend to redesign, which seems like a good idea to me. Despite that, if you want to experiment further with an ADO disconnected recordset for a form, include .LockType before .Open.

rs.LockType = adLockPessimistic
rs.Open

With that change, and discarding the rs.Clone line, your Form_Load code works on my test form.

See this article from Database Journal for more details on this subject: Create In-Memory ADO Recordsets.