vba GoToRecord acGoTo not working

Question

So the problem that I believe has come up for other people but the solutions that I found are not working yet.

Private Sub DROPDOWN_Change()

    Me!FORMAL_CERT_PROCEDURE_TEST_SCRIPTS_THING.SetFocus

    DoCmd.GoToRecord acDataForm, "FORMAL_CERT_PROCEDURE_TEST_SCRIPTS_THING", acGoTo,   Me.DROPDOWN.Value

End Sub

I am getting the error "The object 'FORMAL_CERT_PROCEDURE_TEST_SCRIPTS_THING' isn't open."

Answer 1

When you leave the ObjectType and ObjectName options for DoCmd.GoToRecord blank, Access uses the active object. Since your code has just done SetFocus on the FORMAL_CERT_PROCEDURE_TEST_SCRIPTS_THING subform control, change the DoCmd.GoToRecord statement ...

Private Sub DROPDOWN_Change()
    Me!FORMAL_CERT_PROCEDURE_TEST_SCRIPTS_THING.SetFocus
    DoCmd.GoToRecord , , acGoTo, Me.DROPDOWN.Value
End Sub

As an alternative to this approach, consider whether you can accomplish what you need with the subform control's link master/child fields property. Perhaps Me.DROPDOWN can match a field in the subform's record source?