Placing a subform on a continuous form, Hopeless?

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Rudy Pry

I thought I would tag this group real quick (before I spend days, possibly
weeks and thousands of lives) to see if anyone knew of a work around to the
MS Access limitation of not being able to display a subform on a continuous
form. I believe the issue stems for the inability of access to 'show' the
form in more than one instance.
Basically, what I'm looking for is a grouping of the 'client' and then a
subform in the detail area to list the 'orders' on my search results screen
but then to also have that in a list or continuous format. This is easy
enough in a report or static form but on a continuous form access wants to
whine and bitch about it. Much like I'm doing right now. My boss wants to
see one client name not a series of the same client name for multiple
'orders'. If you know of anything or can point me in the right direction
please let me know.
Thanks,

R


Rudy Pry

GTU

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Rudy said:
I thought I would tag this group real quick (before I spend days, possibly
weeks and thousands of lives) to see if anyone knew of a work around to the
MS Access limitation of not being able to display a subform on a continuous
form. I believe the issue stems for the inability of access to 'show' the
form in more than one instance.
Basically, what I'm looking for is a grouping of the 'client' and then a
subform in the detail area to list the 'orders' on my search results screen
but then to also have that in a list or continuous format. This is easy
enough in a report or static form but on a continuous form access wants to
whine and bitch about it. Much like I'm doing right now. My boss wants to
see one client name not a series of the same client name for multiple
'orders'. If you know of anything or can point me in the right direction
please let me know.
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The usual way to deal with this is to use an unbound main
form with the continuous form as a subform. Then add the
orders form as another subform on the main form. Set the
orders subform's Link Master/Child properties so that it
displays the orders for the current record in the customers
subform.

You can set the Link Master property to a text box (on the
main form) that has an expression like:
=customersubform.Form.customerIDtextbox
 
Oh Yea Babe!!! pure absolute (insert explitive here) genius!! I have not
finished it but understand completely on how/what i need to do. I just
needed someone to turn the lights on so i wouldn't trip over it in the dark.

Many many thanks!

Rudy Pry

GTU

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Very Nice!! Now that's thinking a little different. opened my mind to a half
million things. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge!!

Rudy
 
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