"Darrell Childress" wrote in message
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I have a table (tblSO_Items, this is my master table containing all items)
which contains the following fields
Number (this is a number field)
sono (text field)
lineno (text field)

I am entering data on a form into a separate table (tblProgressReport).
Here's what I would like to be able to do: After entering the sono and
lineno, I would like to have the form look in the tblSO_Items table and
automatically pull the contents of the Number field on the form. I know
this should be possible with the DLookup function, but I cannot get it to
work. Here's what I have in the AfterUpdate event of the lineno field on
the form:

Number = DLookup("[Number]", "tblSO_Items", "[sono]=(' &
Forms![sbfProgressReport]![sono] & ') And [lineno]=(' &
Forms![sbfProgressReport]![lineno] & ')")

But it does nothing. If I edit the above to be:
Number = DLookup("[Number]", "tblSO_Items", "[sono]='82003' And
[lineno]='13'") -- what I did here was enter an actual sono and lineno,
then it works perfectly and populates the Number field with the Number
field from tblSO_Items

Any help would be greatly appreciated, or if there is another way of doing
this.


You're missing some double-quotes. Your function call should look like
this:

Number = DLookup( _
"[Number]", _
"tblSO_Items", _
"([sono]='" & Forms![sbfProgressReport]![sono] & _
"') And ([lineno]='" & _
Forms![sbfProgressReport]![lineno] & "')")

That's untested, so *I* may have made some mistakes as well.

I notice that you are treating [sono] and [lineno] as though they are text
fields. Is that right? If they are not text fields, but actually number
fields, then you don't need the single-quotes (') around the values you are
building in.

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Dirk Goldgar, MS Access MVP
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