Access Reference

Bind a form to an ADO Recordset

Direct Answer

Bind a form to an ADO Recordset
 is part of the Access VBA object model. This reference page documents its syntax, parameters, and typical usage.

Reference

To bind an Access form to a recordset, you must set the form’s Recordset property to an open ADO Recordset object. A form must meet two general requirements for the form to be updatable when it is bound to an ADO recordset. The general requirements are:

  • The underlying ADO recordset must be updatable via ADO.
  • The recordset must contain one or more fields that are uniquely indexed, such as a table’s primary key.

“`vb
Private Sub Form_Open(Cancel As Integer)
Dim cn As ADODB.Connection
Dim rs As ADODB.Recordset

‘Use the ADO connection that Access uses
Set cn = CurrentProject.AccessConnection
‘Create an instance of the ADO Recordset class,
‘and set its properties
Set rs = New ADODB.Recordset
With rs
Set .ActiveConnection = cn
.Source = “SELECT * FROM Customers”
.LockType = adLockOptimistic
.CursorType = adOpenKeyset
.Open
End With
‘Set the form’s Recordset property to the ADO recordset
Set Me.Recordset = rs
Set rs = Nothing
Set cn = Nothing
End Sub
“`

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Reference: Access object-model documentation • updated 09/21/2018
. Rebuilt for readability; see the original for complete parameter matrices.