Form to Subform?

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I've created a form that I want to use as a sort of popup subform,
activated by a button press on the main form. The problem is that, since
the form's already been created, there doesn't seem to be a way to make
it into a subform. I mean in that I don't get properties available for
Parent and Child relationships, so the linked field doesn't get
automatically passed to the subform.

Is there a way to change that?

grep
 
grep said:
I've created a form that I want to use as a sort of popup subform,
activated by a button press on the main form. The problem is that, since
the form's already been created, there doesn't seem to be a way to make
it into a subform. I mean in that I don't get properties available for
Parent and Child relationships, so the linked field doesn't get
automatically passed to the subform.

Is there a way to change that?

grep
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For a form to be used as a subform and make use of Master/Child Link
properties then it must be used within a subform control embedded on the
main form. If you open it as a separate popup form then it is NOT a
subform and any behavior that relates it to the calling form will all
have to be handled in code *by you*.
 
Hmm... I guess I've never checked out what the Wizard does when it
creates a pair of "linked forms" before. I just did, and frankly, I'm
still not sure how it's transferring the copy of the linked field to the
linked form. Thanks for clarifying, though.

grep
 
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