Creating form from template with VBA in Access - forms

I'm using this row to create a form from a template in MS Access:
Set frm = CreateForm(, "MallFrm")
The MallFrm contains buttons but these buttons don't appear in the new form.
How to get buttons created in a new form from the template form?

When you create a new form based on a template form, the new form inherits style properties from the template but does not copy control objects from the template.
For your purpose, use DoCmd.CopyObject to create a copy of the template and continue your design work using the copy.
DoCmd.CopyObject NewName:="NewForm", SourceObjectType:=acForm, SourceObjectName:="MallFrm"
DoCmd.OpenForm FormName:="NewForm", View:=acDesign
Set frm = Forms!NewForm

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Round about Form Copying

Is there a way I can quickly mimic all the properties of a form into for a new form one without directly copying the object (Ctrl-C&V, etc)?
Edit: Looking to copy into an entirely different Access Database.
Open each form in design view, set them equal to an object variable, and then set the properties of the source form equal to the proeprties of the destination form. Use a funciton like this in a public module:
Public Sub UpdateForm(SourceForm as string, DestinationForm as string)
dim frm1 as new form
dim frm2 as new form
set frm1 = forms(SourceForm)
set frm2 = forms(DestinationForm}
'* List the properties you want to copy here:
With form2
.RecordSource = frm1.RecordSource
.Caption = frm1.Caption
.DataEntry = frm1.DataEntry
'* And so on for each property
End With
docmd.save acform, DestinationForm
End Sub
If it's not a one-off project, I'd include some code to check and open the forms if they weren't already open.
File > Options > Object Designers > Form/Report Design View > Form template.
Set the form template to the name of an existing form and that will be used for all new forms.
You can copy a form object using VBA in a slightly more simple way than what DataWriter suggests.
You can use the following statement in the immediate window:
DoCmd.TransferDatabase acExport, "Microsoft Access", CurrentProject.FullName, acForm, "Form1", "Form1_Copy"
Where "Form1" is the name of the source form, and "Form1_Copy" is the name of the destination form.

Access List box including information from text box

currently using Access and would like to add a list box to a form.
Is it possible to add a list box on a form which contains data from a text that is held in another form on the same Access database?
The text box isn't stored as data in my database so struggling as to how I would could do this.
Thanks
Assuming the other form is open, you can dynamically populate the list box.
For example I have two forms.
Form 1 (called Frm1) has 1 textbox, called txtItemList. I've populated this with "1,2,3,4"
Form 2 (called Frm2) has 1 listbox, called lst1. Frm2 has an event on load that populates the listbox with data from Form 1.
Private Sub Form_Load()
Me.lst1.RowSource = Forms!FRM1.txtitemlist
Me.lst1.RowSourceType = "Value List"
End Sub
Now when Form 2 loads, it populates lst1 with values from txtItemListfrom Form 1.

How to send multiple forms with one button in Contao?

I have a question about the wrappers/accordeons. I now have multiple wrappers and in each wrapper there is a form. Now, I want one sendbutton on the end of the page. The sendbutton which will send all the forms that have been filled in at once.
How can I do that?
I don't know why you want to break input into different forms and then submit them again at once. Would it not make sense to use one form and submit the data and process it the way you want using the processFormData hook? may be because you want the accordion to group you form fields. Let me help you this way:
Create your form in the format shown below. Make sure the form has a tabless layout to be able to use fieldsets.
Create a fieldset without a label. You may add the class ce_accordion just in case you have some styling attached to it.
Create a field of type html and add the following markup.
<div class="toggler">Form 1 headline here</div>
Create another field with the following markup
<div class="toggler">
Now create your input fields from here. for example a text field,textares.
Create a field of type html to close html markup created in step 3
</div>
Create a fieldset wrapper end here.
The above steps can be repeated as many as how many groups of fields you want to create in an accordion.
Now create you submit button here and it will send all your data the way you want.
Just a by the way:
If some one submits a form in a wrapper that is closed, how will he know which wrapper has error fields?
$(document).ready(function() {
$(".ce_accordion").each(function(index,el) {
if($(this).find("p.error")){
$(this).addClass("hasErrors");
$(this).find("div.toggler").addClass("active").attr("aria-expanded","true");
}
});
​});​
You can now add a style for .hasErrors rule

Reusing the CQ5 Form into the mywebsite components is not showing up the End of the Form section

I am trying to reuse the Form into my project components.
I have copy pasted the entire form folder from "/libs/foundation/components/form" to my project "/apps/mywebsite/components/form".
But when i am trying to use the form from mywebsite in the parsys the from shows only Start of the from.
Where as when i tried to use the form from the foundation in the same page parsys it shows both Start and End of the form.
Observation:
From the content, when i am using the foundation form the in the page content i can see the start and end nodes. where as when i am using the mywebsite form start node alone is created.
The form end is added/deleted by the fixStructure() method of the FormParagraphPostProcessor class. This post processor listens for creation and deletion of form start and form end paragraph and creates/removes the other paragraphs accordingly.
if ( ResourceUtil.isA(res, FormsConstants.RT_FORM_BEGIN)
|| ResourceUtil.isA(res, FormsConstants.RT_FORM_END)) {
if ( FormsHelper.checkFormStructure(res) != null ) {
logger.debug("Fixed forms structure at {}", contentResource.getPath());
}
}else {
fixStructure(res);
}
This class depends on the FormConstants.java where the form start(RT_FORM_BEGIN) and the form end(RT_FORM_END) are defined as "foundation/components/form/start" and "foundation/components/form/end" respectively. Due to this the post processor doesn't process the form start / end that is present within your project.
To make your custom form component working you may consider one of the following possible options:
Add the sling:resourceSuperType property for your project form start as "foundation/components/form/start". This would create a form end, but it would be of type foundation/components/form/end and not your project form end.
In case you do not want the default form end but your custom form end, then you may need to create a custom post processor which listens to your form start and end and fix the structure accordingly. This requires modifying few other java classes like FormsHelper.java etc, as they are also dependent on the FormConstants.java. Also make sure that the imports in the start.jsp are changed accordingly.
Finally, if you do not want to create custom classes, you can copy the default form start to "/apps/foundation/components/form/start" and make your modifications on top of it. But you need to be careful while using this approach as this is a global change and would affect the other projects that are using the default foundation form start.

form doesn't appears in custom template page

I am newer to wordpress.i have created a form using form builder.and included in a page.The form displays in the default template but not in the custom template.any idea??
// Formbuilder manual form display. Replace the # in the following line with the ID number of the form to be displayed.
if(function_exists('formbuilder_process_form')) echo formbuilder_process_form(#);
// End of FormBuilder manual form display.