Easy question. (Solved)

[Avatarp]

Access:

I need to populate a combobox with a field from my query. However I want the first row to be "Show All" and everything after that to be from my query.

So I figure I need to put the results of my query into a string and append it to the end of my string that contains "Show All". Like this

MyRowSourceString = "Show All;Item1;Item2;Item3..."

Is there a way to do this?

[Gush]

I usualy use UNION.

example, let's say that the field you want to populate is "Field1" from "Table1".

Combo1.RowSource = "Select ""(Show All)"" as Field1 From Table1 UNION Select Field1 From Table1"

in order for the (Show All) item to show on the top of the list, I use "(".

[Avatarp]

    cmboFlowMonth.RowSource = "SELECT ""(Show All)"" as SchedulerInputData.MonthEnd From SchedulerInputData UNION SchedulerInputData.MonthEnd From SchedulerInputData;"

SchedulerInputData is my query
MonthEnd is my field

[Avatarp]

Set my combobox protery for RowSourceType to be "Value List"

then I opened a recordset of my query and populated a string with any unique dtaes. like so:

    Dim MyMonthString As String
    Dim MyDB As Database, rs As Recordset
    Set MyDB = DBEngine.Workspaces(0).Databases(0)
    Set rs = MyDB.OpenRecordset("SchedulerInputData", dbOpenDynaset)

    MyMonthString = "(All);"
    rs.MoveFirst
    Do While Not rs.EOF
        CurrentItem = CStr(Format(rs!monthEnd, "mmmm yyyy"))
        If InStr(MyMonthString, CurrentItem) = 0 Then
            MyMonthString = MyMonthString + CurrentItem + ";"
        End If
        rs.MoveNext
    Loop
    cmboFlowMonth.RowSource = MyMonthString