setvalue

I have an old database with a form to set report criteria. It works fine in
Access 2002 and 97. I have recently upgraded to Access 2003 and the macro is
failing on the "SetValue" Action. The Active Arguments in 97 and 2002 were
Item: [Visible]
Expression: No

When I run in 2003, I get an error which halts the macro and the form is not
closed as it does in 2002. I have modified the Item to [Forms]![Report
Criteria].[Visible] though I then get an error indicating I cannot access the
ActiveX Control?? Any helpers?

This is a bug in ACCESS 2003. See this Microsoft Knowledge Base article for
more information and how to work around it:

Microsoft Knowledge Base Artilce 841916
You may receive an error message when you run a macro that uses the SetValue
action to set the Visible property of an object in Access 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;841916


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Ken Snell
MS ACCESS MVP

"Dagster" wrote in message
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I have an old database with a form to set report criteria. It works fine
in
Access 2002 and 97. I have recently upgraded to Access 2003 and the macro
is
failing on the "SetValue" Action. The Active Arguments in 97 and 2002
were
Item: [Visible]
Expression: No

When I run in 2003, I get an error which halts the macro and the form is
not
closed as it does in 2002. I have modified the Item to [Forms]![Report
Criteria].[Visible] though I then get an error indicating I cannot access
the
ActiveX Control?? Any helpers?

Thanks Ken, You have led me straight to the bug. I have followed the work
around to the letter of Article ID : 841916 and created a vb module:

Public Function SetVisible(frmTarget As Object, fValue As Boolean)
frmTarget.Visible = fValue
End Function

Have then created a macro to call with a RunCode Action and an Argument of:
SetVisible (Forms!Report Criteria, False)
again as per Article ID : 841916. When I run the macro, it produces an error
"The Expression You Entered Contains Invalid Syntax"

The SetVisible function is detectable in the Argument Expression Builder, so
I am now quite confused. Any ideas?

I basically want to close my "Report Criteria" Form and continue with my
report generation.
cheers
Dagster

"Ken Snell [MVP]" wrote:

This is a bug in ACCESS 2003. See this Microsoft Knowledge Base article for
more information and how to work around it:

Microsoft Knowledge Base Artilce 841916
You may receive an error message when you run a macro that uses the SetValue
action to set the Visible property of an object in Access 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;841916


--

Ken Snell
MS ACCESS MVP

"Dagster" wrote in message
news
I have an old database with a form to set report criteria. It works fine
in
Access 2002 and 97. I have recently upgraded to Access 2003 and the macro
is
failing on the "SetValue" Action. The Active Arguments in 97 and 2002
were
Item: [Visible]
Expression: No

When I run in 2003, I get an error which halts the macro and the form is
not
closed as it does in 2002. I have modified the Item to [Forms]![Report
Criteria].[Visible] though I then get an error indicating I cannot access
the
ActiveX Control?? Any helpers?

You need [ ] around the name of the form because it contains spaces:

SetVisible (Forms![Report Criteria], False)


--

Ken Snell
MS ACCESS MVP

"Dagster" wrote in message
news
Thanks Ken, You have led me straight to the bug. I have followed the
work
around to the letter of Article ID : 841916 and created a vb module:

Public Function SetVisible(frmTarget As Object, fValue As Boolean)
frmTarget.Visible = fValue
End Function

Have then created a macro to call with a RunCode Action and an Argument
of:
SetVisible (Forms!Report Criteria, False)
again as per Article ID : 841916. When I run the macro, it produces an
error
"The Expression You Entered Contains Invalid Syntax"

The SetVisible function is detectable in the Argument Expression Builder,
so
I am now quite confused. Any ideas?

I basically want to close my "Report Criteria" Form and continue with my
report generation.
cheers
Dagster

"Ken Snell [MVP]" wrote:

This is a bug in ACCESS 2003. See this Microsoft Knowledge Base article
for
more information and how to work around it:

Microsoft Knowledge Base Artilce 841916
You may receive an error message when you run a macro that uses the
SetValue
action to set the Visible property of an object in Access 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;841916


--

Ken Snell
MS ACCESS MVP

"Dagster" wrote in message
news
I have an old database with a form to set report criteria. It works
fine
in
Access 2002 and 97. I have recently upgraded to Access 2003 and the
macro
is
failing on the "SetValue" Action. The Active Arguments in 97 and 2002
were
Item: [Visible]
Expression: No

When I run in 2003, I get an error which halts the macro and the form
is
not
closed as it does in 2002. I have modified the Item to [Forms]![Report
Criteria].[Visible] though I then get an error indicating I cannot
access
the
ActiveX Control?? Any helpers?