Options should apply to one record- not all

For example, in a database of outstanding issues I created the option buttons
in the design form (option buttons are where you have the circles where one
can be selected and not the others).

I need to have this information for each individual issue, or record as
Access calls it. However, when I click the buttons, it applies to all of the
records, not just the one I intend it to apply.

How do I change that?

Do these buttons correspond to fields in your table? Are they linked to
those fields? Access can't remember (store) the value if you don't have
that value tied to a field in a table.

An unbound field will have the same value no matter which record you look
at.

Rick B

"blondtraillite" wrote in message
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For example, in a database of outstanding issues I created the option
buttons
in the design form (option buttons are where you have the circles where
one
can be selected and not the others).

I need to have this information for each individual issue, or record as
Access calls it. However, when I click the buttons, it applies to all of
the
records, not just the one I intend it to apply.

How do I change that?

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:21:02 -0800, "blondtraillite"
wrote:

For example, in a database of outstanding issues I created the option buttons
in the design form (option buttons are where you have the circles where one
can be selected and not the others).

I need to have this information for each individual issue, or record as
Access calls it. However, when I click the buttons, it applies to all of the
records, not just the one I intend it to apply.

How do I change that?

It sounds like your Option Group control on the form is unbound - i.e.
its Control Source property is blank. If you want it to apply to each
record, you must have a Number (integer or long integer) field in the
table, and the option group control needs to be bound to that field.

John W. Vinson[MVP]