Question

This is a complete newbie question, but I couldn’t find any solution online (at least nothing to my understanding). I want to make a form with a textbox and a button and on click, the button should take the value written in the textbox, find the row with that ID in a table and change an attribute to unavailable. Normally I would do this with a simple SQL statement:

UPDATE table SET available='NO' WHERE id = *textbox.value*;

What should I write instead of textbox.value so that it works?

Answer 1

You can refer to an open form:

UPDATE table SET available='NO' WHERE id = Forms!MyForm!MyTextbox

Assuming that the form is the main form and not a subform. You can also run SQL in VBA. Make sure you do not update a record via a form and via a query or code at the same time.

Re Comments

In this case, the problem is corruption, something I often forget to watch out for. You will find a good article here : http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/corruptmdbs.htm, including Decompile.