I have some Forms in my project which tables. Those tables has records, where I have on each line, some text fields (informational), and some buttons. When I select one of those lines with the mouse, by clicking on one of the text fields the editing cursor is always twinkeling in the field where I clicked. I would like that my mouse click only select the line in a color, and doesn't edit the field (This cursor is not a real edit, because it's impossible to really modify something to the edited text, but it would be more professionnal to remove it)
Any solution? (VBA/Access Form design,...) Thanks a lot
Put a small (virtually invisible) control on the forms detail line. In each field you don't want them to settle on put a "got_focus" event that resets the focus to the virtually invisible control.
You can also use the on current event to set an unbound empty control to make the whole row change colour as per this explanation https://access-programmers.co.uk/forums/showpost.php?p=1480574&postcount=6 . Ignore the very complex code shown initially in the thread.
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I'm trying to add an OR feature in the Continuous Filter Form and as you can see the first combobox shows up which I don't want it to show. Ideally, it should show only when the user wants the second row search option not in the first row filter. I have only OR in the combobox. Thanks for your help and let me know if you need any clarification!
Continuous form controls are all or nothing. If it's visible, it's visible in all rows, if invisible, it's invisible in all rows. There's nothing you can do about that.
You have four options (in order of complexity):
First Option:
The "On Current" event of the form happens when a user moves from one row to another inside the continuous form. you can add an IF statement to that event that disables the first box if the user has moved to the first row.
Second Option:
Have a fixed amount of filter boxes, and don't let the user pass the limit
Third Option:
Have a fixed amount of filter boxes, but make a "forward" and "back" buttons that will change what data the filter boxes link to, effectively making a 'custom' continuous form
Fourth Option:
Dynamically create the textboxes programatically (not recommended)
Set the default 'Visible' property to 'No' and then Reset it to 'Yes' when a second criteria is selected. This will populate the whole column though, just so you know.
I have check boxes in the far left hand column in a table and would like to use these to perform batch edits on the contents of the table. For example a user would like to edit multiple items in the table: They check the ones they want to edit, and then go to the drop down at the bottom of the table to select what they'd like to change one of the columns to. When they hit submit I would check for boxes that are checked and modify the associated columns. The image below shows this visually.
The checkboxes I are not in any and are solely checkboxes. I'm assuming this is the correct thing to do as I do not the whole table being part of the form. My question then is, how would I submit the checkboxes when "Submit" is pressed, so that I can check which checkboxes are used?
Move the form tag to the top of the table and then the checkboxes will be included in the POST request.
How do I create a label that is editable? I am displaying data in a table, and would like to provide in place editing for the displayed data. What CSS styles can I use for it?
Put a text input box there and make its background same as the background of its container and put 0 border on it and use same font style and color as other items in the table
What CSS styles can I use for it ?
It's not really a matter of CSS (unless your questions pertains solely to achieving a particular style).
You can:
Make all table cells contain inputs. This has the (potentially significant) downside that all data will be submitted to the server if the form is POSTed. I wouldn't recommend this approach unless the table is small or you are never fully submitting the whole page.
Change the label to an input on click. When the form is submitted, this value will now be a part of the request.
Change the label to an input in response to an action elsewhere (e.g. focusing the row, clicking an edit button next to the row, etc.)
Set contenteditable="true" on the element. This allows rich formatting but also requires that you keep track of the changes the user has made; they will not be submitted to the server unless they are placed into a form field.
You will likely want/need a snippet of JavaScript to change the label to an input (#2 and #3). You will need JavaScript to get the data to the server with approach #4.
This is kind of out there, but I have no idea what this type of control is even called, so I can't look up any examples on how to implement it.
The control has two text areas side by side with arrows in between them. If a user selects a value or multiple values in one text area and then clicks the arrow that points to the other text area, the selected values will jump over to the other text area and be removed from the initial text area.
What is this called?
There's no one control. Usually it's implemented with 2 <SELECT> list boxes, the arrows have javascript functions attached to take the selected values in the one listbox and move them to the other. Ie. delete from one box and add to the other.
Take a look at this example I found via Google:
http://blog.jeremymartin.name/2008/02/easy-multi-select-transfer-with-jquery.html
Ok so I add all these text boxes on an unbound form, and everytime you open a form, it sort of jumps to the first text box so you can enter some information into it.
How do I get rid of that, because I do not want it to auto jump to the first text box when the form opens...i do not want it to jump to any text box when the form open at all.
thanks
You will have to decide where you do want it to go, because it has to go somewhere. You can control where will tab order, set focus, and autotab.
I have just checked, and the best thing to do is to set the textboxes Enabled property to No and the Locked property to Yes.
The default behavior is of course for the cursor to move into the first control that you’ve set up in the tab order.
Assuming you still want some sensible tab order in the form, then place a zero length text box in the forms headder. Remove the tab stop setting (other tab in property sheet). You might as well set this box transparent also.
Then in the forms on-load event, simply go:
Me.NameOfTextBoxinFormsHedaing.SetFocus
If I read your question correctly it seems that you do not want any of your textboxes on the form to have the focus on opening the form.
What you need to do in this instance is to create a new unbound textbox on your form, and then make this unbound the first item in the form's tab order. Then resize the unbound textbox to 0 height and 0 width, making it invisible.