Importing data regularly

Just checked using Access 2003 saved as Access 2000, and had no problem with
unbound text boxes, nor with bound ones. In fact, setting the format in the
table field carried through to the form, just as I expected.

Don't know why you're not seeing that behaviour. Might be worth creating a
new form, just to see.

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"Douglas J. Steele" wrote in message
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I only have Access 97 installed here, so it'll have to wait until I get
home to see whether Access 2003 changed anything.

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"Andy Roberts" wrote in message
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Thanks for all your help on this one - seems I have something unusual set
up somewhere. Just for your info it Access 2003 saving as Access 2000
format.

Andy

"Douglas J. Steele" wrote in message
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I'm at a loss for suggestions. I just tested an unbound text box, and
had no problems.

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"Andy Roberts" wrote in message
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If I use #.000 as the format on the text box it just displays without
the trailing zeros as it was in the table.

Does it make a difference if the text boxes are as a result of picking
a refernce from a cbo? i.e. I pick a reference from a cbo and it
displays the x&y of the start point and the x&y of the endpoint in 4
separate text boxes. I also have an unbound txt box which calculates
the distance bewteen the two coordinates and this wont display to 3dp
either irrespective of the format used.

Andy


"Douglas J. Steele" wrote in
message ...
In the absence of specific formatting in the text box, I would have
expected it to display the same as what's defined for the field in the
table. However, on testing just now, I see that isn't the case.

What happened when you used #.000 as the Format property for the text
box? I just tried it, and it worked fine for me.

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Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
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"Andy Roberts" wrote in message
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Thanks yet again Doug - Genius,

I'd actually tried this but didn't know to use the # as a wildcard.
The only problem with this is that it doesn't work on the form. In
the table if I use #.000 it works fine. I would expect the data to
be displayed identically on the form but it isn't, so I used the
#.000 for the format of the text box but it doesn't work.

Does the form not just display what the table tells it?

Andy


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"Douglas J. Steele" wrote in
message ...
Set the Format property to #.000


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"Andy Roberts" wrote in message
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Thanks Doug

Saved the day again - your approach seems so logical now - I'll try
and work these things out with that outlook.

Managed to get the co-ordinates in as decimals by setting the field
type to Double. However, the number of decimal places differs
depending on the trailing zeros e.g.456.700 shows as 456.7 and
456.760 shows as 456.76.

I've tried setting the dec places to 3 but doesn't make any
difference. Not too worried how they are stored in the tables, but
the form displaying the values should be to 3 decimal places. I've
tried using the ROUND function as part of the control source on of
the textbox on the form, but this doesn't work. Am I on the right
path?

Andy


"Douglas J. Steele" wrote in
message ...
As long as your import specification (the 2nd argument in your
TransferText: "import" in your example) is correct, the import
should work fine.

Try importing manually (through File | Get External Data) and
click on the Advanced button when the wizard appears. Click on the
Specs button and select "import". Correct it as required, and
click on the Save As button to replace the old version.

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Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
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"Andy Roberts" wrote in message
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Doug,

I've changed the structure of theDB tables a little and now wish
to import the same file (see attached) into a table which has
more field than which I'm importing.

I get an error now when I use the following code:

Private Sub Command34_Click()
Dim lngAfter As Long
Dim lngBefore As Long
Dim strFilter As String
Dim strInputFileName As String

strFilter = ahtAddFilterItem(strFilter, "Text Files (*.TXT)",
"*.TXT")
strInputFileName = ahtCommonFileOpenSave( _
Filter:=strFilter, OpenFile:=True, _
DialogTitle:="Please select an input file...", _
Flags:=ahtOFN_HIDEREADONLY)
lngBefore = DCount("*", "tblSections")

DoCmd.TransferText acImportDelim, "import", "tblSections",
strInputFileName, False

lngAfter = DCount("*", "tblSections")

MsgBox "You imported " & (lngAfter - lngBefore) & " sections."
End Sub

Is this because the number of fields are different. The txtfile
has the first 5 fields which correspond to the first 5 in the
table. However the table has a further 7 fields which can't come
from the import. What I want to do is import the 5 fields into
the table and then add the remaining fields manually.

Is this possible.

(The error I get is Runtime Error 3001, Invalid Argument)

Regards Andy Andy Roberts BSc (Hons) Senior Consultant
www.blue-bean.co.uk M +44 (0)7970 255 156 T
+44 (0)151 428 6838 240 Mackets Lane Woolton Liverpool L25 9NH
United Kingdom
"Andy Roberts" wrote in message
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Thanks yet again Doug,

Thats sorted that problem.

However... then numbers are coming in as whole numbers (missing
the 4 decimal places) for each value.

Each field is set as a Long Integer and the decimal places are
set to 4, but it doesn't seem to work, even if I change the type
to decimal.

Andy


"Douglas J. Steele" wrote in
message ...
"acImportFixed" says that the columns are a fixed width. You
want "acImportDelim"

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"Andy Roberts" wrote in message
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Thanks Doug

That works a treat - well nearly!

Everything works, except the resulting data is different from
that
cointained in the incoming file. The data coming in is as
follows (they are
co-ordinates):-

0001,652.8655,349.5133,689.3182,468.6107
0002,822.5105,468.6107,861.7672,336.9030
0003,1020.1960,336.9030,1051.0406,505.0405
0004,1154.7904,505.0405,1330.0435,356.5190
0005,1531.9351,440.5878,1426.7832,573.6967
0006,1505.2966,743.2354,1799.7218,419.5706
0007,1913.2858,619.9345,1530.5330,928.1867
0008,1913.2858,619.9345,1530.5330,928.1867

It is REF, StartX, StartY, End X, EndY and saved in a txt file

On import an autonumber is assigned as a unique reference. No
problem,
however when I import the file the message I receive is
correct with the
number of entries, but the table looks like this:-

http://www.blue-bean.co.uk/images/screen.jpg

The numbers aren't formatted correctly - I thinks it must have
something to
do with number of decimal places. Any clues? It also imports
the first
comma (but the field type is text in this case)



"Douglas J. Steele" wrote
in message
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Copy all of the shaded code (what's between Code Start and
Code End), and
paste it into a new module. When you save the module, name it
something
like "mdlFileDialog" (the name of the module isn't really
critical, other
than the fact that you cannot name the module the same as any
of the
functions or subs within it)

Rather than simply having:

DoCmd.TransferText acImportFixed, "importcoords",
"tblSecCoords",
"C:\import.txt", False

you'll want something like:

Dim lngAfter As Long
Dim lngBefore As Long
Dim strFilter As String
Dim strInputFileName as string

strFilter = ahtAddFilterItem(strFilter, "Text Files
(*.TXT)", "*.TXT")
strInputFileName = ahtCommonFileOpenSave( _
Filter:=strFilter, OpenFile:=True, _
DialogTitle:="Please select an input file...",
_
Flags:=ahtOFN_HIDEREADONLY)
lngBefore = DCount("*", "tblSecCoords")

DoCmd.TransferText acImportFixed, "importcoords", _
strInputFIleName, "C:\import.txt", False

lngAfter = DCount("*", "tblSecCoords")

Msgbox "You imported " & (lngAfter - lngBefore) & "
records."


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Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
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"Andy Roberts" wrote in message
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Thanks Doug for the quick response. I'm not really that up
with VBA. I
kind of understand the process.

I presume I need to place the code on the click event of the
button?
Where does the import code go?
As for number 2 you have certainly lost me there!

Andy

"Douglas J. Steele"
wrote in message
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For 1, see http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0001.htm at
"The Access
Web"

For 2, use DCount("*", "tblSecCoords") before and after the
import.

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Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
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(no e-mails, please!)


"Andy Roberts" wrote in message
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I want to import data regularly (the import format will
always be the
same) and there are 2 things I wish to do as part of the
process:-

First I want to hit an "Import button" on a form which
then displays
the standard browse dialogue to allow the user to select
the file.
Secondly I want the system to display a message of
confirmation with
the number of records imported displayed in the message.

I have got it to work using an import specification (on
the click event
of the command button) :

DoCmd.TransferText acImportFixed, "importcoords",
"tblSecCoords",
"C:\import.txt", False

which works fine except for the two issues raised above.
Can anyone
help?

Andy