ACC: "Type Mismatch" Error When Comparing Bookmarks

ID: Q152548

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Access versions 7.0, 97

SYMPTOMS

Moderate: Requires basic macro, coding, and interoperability skills.

When you compare a recordset's bookmark with a Variant or String variable, you may receive the following error message:

   Run-time error '13:'
   Type Mismatch

This error message can also occur when you compare a recordset's bookmark to the RecordsetClone of, for example, a form's record source.

RESOLUTION

Use the StrComp() function to compare a Variant or String variable to a bookmark, or to compare a bookmark against a bookmark. The third argument for the StrComp() function must be set to a value of 0 (zero).

For example, the following code tests to see if a form is displaying its last record by first cloning the record source of the form, moving to the last record within the cloned recordset, and then testing to see if the last record within the cloned recordset matches the record currently displayed on the form:

   Dim RS As Recordset
   Set RS = Me.RecordsetClone
   RS.MoveLast
   If StrComp(Me.Bookmark, RS.Bookmark, 0) = 0 Then
      MsgBox "Form is displaying the last record."
   End If

MORE INFORMATION

Online Help for the Bookmark Property contains the following subheading:

   'Settings and Return Values.'

The information under this subheading reads as follows:

   The setting or returned value is a string expression or variant
   expression that evaluates to a valid bookmark. (Data type is Variant
   array of Byte data.)

Despite the information in Help, if a bookmark is compared against a variable of data type Variant or String, or compared to another bookmark while using a comparison operator (such as an equal sign) in Visual Basic for Applications, the procedure fails, generating the error message mentioned in the "Symptoms" section.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Open the sample database Northwind.mdb, and open the Customers form in

   Design view.

2. Set the Customers form's OnCurrent property to the following event

   procedure:

      Dim RS As Recordset
      Set RS = Me.RecordsetClone
      RS.MoveLast
      If Me.Bookmark = RS.Bookmark Then
         MsgBox "Form is displaying the last record."
      End If

3. Click Form on the View menu. Note that Microsoft Access displays the

   following error message:

      Run-time error '13:'
      Type mismatch

4. Click the Debug button. Note that Microsoft Access highlights the line

   of code where the type mismatch occurs. The line of code is:

      If Me.Bookmark = RS.Bookmark Then

REFERENCES

For more information about the StrComp() function, search the Help Index for "StrComp Function," or ask the Microsoft Access 97 Office Assistant.

For more information about the Bookmark Property, search the Help Index for "Bookmark Property," or ask the Microsoft Access 97 Office Assistant.

Additional query words:

Keywords          : kberrmsg kbprg PgmObj 
Version           : 7.0 97
Platform          : WINDOWS
Hardware          : x86

Last Reviewed: November 21, 1998