please bear with me while I try to explain my problem. I am opening a form in Add mode; the form is bound to a single table but contains a subform linked to another table - the 2 tables have a 1 to many relationship. I enter some data which triggers the autoref to populate on the main form, and create a linked record on the subform. I then click a button on the main form to open another form. Using vba on the OnClick event of this button, I save the record on the current form and create a new record in a different table. This table is the data source for the 2nd form, and I open the form filtered to the newly created record. I enter some data in this secondary form and then click a button which takes a calculated value and populates a field on the main form and then closes the second form. The problem is that when it returns to the main form it seems to have lost the original record, as if it's back in Add mode. However, if I enter data on the main form and then simply close it, I can re-open it (in Edit mode) and open the 2nd form and back again without any problem. Sorry for the long-winded explanation but hope someone can help.
I've been programming Access for almost 20 years, and I've never found a use for Add mode. In other words, it has always been more trouble than it is worth.
Since you are coding already, I would just use DoCmd.GoToRecord , , acNewRec where needed to take you to a new record. Just make sure AllowAdditions is set to Yes in form properties.
Since this question is very general, it is hard to get any more specific than this. But if you do run into a specific problem that you can demonstrate in your code, update your question and I'll take a look.
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What I am trying to accomplish:
Use button to open a form, filter the form, and set specific value to an unbound textbox in the opened form's header. There are multiple buttons being used open the same form and I would like this textbox to changed every time a specific button is clicked.
What I have done so far:
Used a macro to open the form and the "where" condition to filter the records. I also used "SetProperty" to change the value of the unbound textbox in the opened form's header depending on which button was clicked. When I do used the SetProperty option in the macro I get the error "The control name ... is misspelled or refers to a control that doesn't exist. Error 32004
I have verified numerous times that this is the correct name for the textbox and everything. I am pretty new to access and don't do VBA all that much so any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
First Form and Macro for the "Physical Security" Button
Second form with error and unbound txt box I want to change to "Physical Security"
A few Ideas to track down your problem:
Maybe there's a problem with opening and (immediately) accessing the forms controls(?) You could try to fire a macro from within the same from that (only) changes the value of this text-box to make sure it definitely works there. Of course you'd want to make it work there if it failed before you'd go back to your original problem.
Is the property called value? Could it be text?
Are you sure you need to separate (all) hierarchies using !? Just by desperation: Maybe try using Forms!frmVW.txtXY or Forms.frmVW.txtXY
If that doesn't solve it:
It's often best to reduce your problem to it's very basics. Copy your application (!!!!) and radically delete unneeded stuff. Or start a short experiment from scratch (one or two forms, maybe only a button and a textbox, a macro, most probably not even a single Datatable/Source).
Update: Manually losing the form and re-opening it also causes editing to be allowed, please see Step 4 below and "Additional Notes" section below. Thanks!
An MS-Access 2007 database that I have simplified a great deal during troubleshooting still has the same problem:
Restart Access and open the database
The autoexec calls a vba function that initializes some TempVars, then opens a form with: `DoCmd.OpenForm FormName:="MainEditor"
All Bound and Un-Bound Text Boxes and Combo Boxes display their data
correctly, but NONE of them can be edited. Keystrokes are ignored, pull-downs on Combo Boxes display lists of choices correctly but no choice can be selected.
Change the form's view to Design View, then immediately change it back to Form View. Alternatively, manually close the Form and then re-open it.
All the controls continue to display their data correctly, but now ALL of
them can be edited normally.
After changing to Design View and back to Form View, the Form is editable normally until Access is shut down and restarted.
Additional Notes:
I tried adding a DoCmd.Close and a DoCmd.FormOpen immediately after the original DoCmd.FormOpen in the startup function called by the Autoexec macro, but the Form remained unable to accept edits. Manually closing the form, and then manually re-opening it, seems to work every time. Is there any chance that Access needs a delay to process before opening the form, and manually doing the close/open cycle provides that time window?
Here's some background:
The Table has a primary index, 4 other indexes, and one-to-many relations to 7 other tables.
The Form's Record Source is the Table, and Allow Edits = Yes.
All the controls on the Form are set: Enabled = Yes, and Locked = No.
There are no sub-forms, only the one Form.
This isn't much to go on. If you ask for further specifics I'd be glad to provide them.
Thank you. Dave
Instead of using an Autoexec macro, specify a startup form.
I've got a parent form embedded with a subform. They are linked by ID.Lets say its form1(parent),form2(child) and ID.
I create a add new record button in form1 and it do bring me to a new form1.The problem is the 'acNewRec' also create a new record in the subform. When the form1.ID updated, the form2.ID is still '(new)'. I tried to add After Update Event to form1.ID and do requery to the subform, it just doesn't work. But when I jumped out and came back to look for the information. The record is there.
What I need is when the form1.ID updated, the subform will show the related information at once.
Can someone give any advice?
I have taken over development of a tool that helps our company fill out standardized contracts. It is a Visual Basic form in Word.
There is one very small issue left, but it is annoying.
So we have a form that starts when a new document created from the template and this works just fine, however before the form is presented to the user, another form(at least that's what it looks like) appears. It have a text input field and an OK and a Cancel button. The title of the window is Referencenumber.
I have searched all the code for this title and can not find it. It also doesn't matter what you put in the input field, it is not put in the final document. And it also doesn't matter whether you press OK or Cancel.
Could you help figure what it is or how I can remove it?
I'm going out on a limb here and guessing it's an ASK or FILLIN field in the document (probably ASK since you're not seeing the result in the document).
Press Alt+F9 to toggle on the field code display then, if you don't see { ASK [other stuff here ] } immediately you can do a Find on: ^d ASK
ASK writes the user input to a bookmark which can then be used (referenced) elsewhere on by the object model. You should be able to simply delete the field and request the input in your form. But do watch out for REF fields referencing the bookmark information. Ctrl+A, F9 (update all the fields in the main story) should show up an ERROR! if the field (and its bookmark) are deleted.
If it's not one of these fields then it could be something popping up from another add-in. But if that's the case you'd see it with other documents, as well...
I am facing a strange issue!!
I have a set of property page with same storage file.
The scenario is as follow..
For the first time opening the properties by right clicking on the project, list of property pages are viewed. I click on the first property page and make changes then apply the changes to the file.
Now I select the second page, it shows the changes that were applied from the first page.
But now without closing the properties i go back to first page and make changes then apply the changes.
Then again I go to second page it wont show the updated data. The changes that were applied are not viewed until I close the properties and reopen then by right clicking on the project.
My question is
"Is there any way to reflect changes on the pages without closing the properties??"
I appreciate your valuable time you will give for reading and replying..
Plz help
Your problem seems to just absent of reliable model which can notify problem.
If the properties are related IProject.
You should use ScopedPreferenceStore as model.
IScopeContenxt scope = new ProjectScope(myProject);
IPreferenceStore store =
new ScopedPreferenceStore(scope, "myProperties(qualifier)");
IPreferenceStore can manipulate primitive data, default value. And it support property change event. You can create multiple instances of IPreferenceStore, If they have same scope and qualifier then automatically synchronized. So individual page can retrive input model without coupling.