I have an application that I'm trying to finish in VBA, and as I've never written in it, it's a bit challenging to me. I've written some in VB but the syntax isn't the same between the two for some things. Essentially, here's the logic (or lack of) that I'm trying to accomplish with this task. This is a payroll program that was written by someone who is no longer with our organization. I am trying to finalize this, and realized that when reviewing it for finalization, that it was missing some components. Currently there is no way to create an audit trail for this program (which is why the timestamp is now coming into play.) Also, there is a value (the option group) that wasn't in the original version of this app. As far as the other two buttons on the first form, those perform calculations that end with a result when a user presses button #3 on the main form. What I'd like that 3rd button to also do is to open the second form, post the data from the results on the first form, show the option group with a submit button, when the user presses the submit button on form2, it appends a timestamp and the options group selection to the same table that the results of form1 were posted to. I'll go back through my code today and clean it up. I hope that that makes more sense now as to what I'm trying to achieve.

Step by step ... this is how the program should work:
1. User presses buttons 1, 2 and 3 on main form and gets a "sum" for the payroll for a specific time frame.
2. When the user presses the last button on main form, the form closes, the sum of the data is posted to a SQL database and a second form is opened.
3. The second form is a option group with 3 options, 1, 2, or 3 and a submit button.
4. The user chooses an option and presses the submit button on the second form, which then posts the option group result AND the timestamp to the SQL table. (the same SQL table where the information from the main form is posted)
5. Form 2 closes.

here's the code I have so far:

(main form)
and the code to my second form:

Option Compare Database
Private Sub Command2_Click()
Dim batchid As String
Dim cnn As String

DoCmd.TransferDatabase acExport, "ODBC Database", _
"ODBC;Driver={SQL Server};Server=xxxxx;Database=MDR;" _
& "Uid=xxxxx;Pwd=xxxxx", acTable, "Payroll", "6_1_Execupay"

SelectCase Me.Frame7.Value
Case 1
batchid = "='1'"
Case 2
batchid = "='2'"
Case 3
batchid = "='3'"
End Select

Set rs = CurrentDb().OpenRecordset(sqlStmt)
sqlStmt = "Insert into payroll (timestamp, batchid) values (date(), batchid)"
On Error GoTo DateStampError 'Error reporting on DateStamp code

With rs
If .RecordCount = 1 Then
.Fields("timestamp") = Date
.Update
Else
.MoveFirst
.Edit
.Fields("timestamp") = Date
.Update
End If
End With
rs.Close
cnn.Close
Set rs = Nothing

Command2_Click_Exit

DateStampError:
MsgBox "DateStamp code failed. " & Error$
Resume Command2_Click_Exit
DoCmd.Me.Close
End Sub

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A couple of things I'm not sure of. I need to post the data that's in the 6_1_execupay access table to my sql table and I'm told that you can export data with vba using this code:

but what I would need it to do is just to export the file and not do a complete overwrite each time. Will that code do that? Also, I don't know how to capture the value from the selectcase method and post that to the database. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Doug