I'm fairly new to microsoft access and i'm currently designing a database for my company but I'm having some trouble trying to get the tab control to work properly. The problem is whenever it navigates through all the pages, when it reaches the last field to fill in, it goes to the next record but stays in the last page, it doesn't 'reset' back to the first page so it follows a logical order.
HansUp offered a good suggestion in his comment, but you may not want to unconditionally SetFocus the first tab in OnCurrent because that could cause the tab focus to switch as users navigate from one record to another using the record selector buttons. There could be cases where the users might find that annoying.
Instead, you might want to use the LostFocus event of the final field to manipulate a flag that would allow OnCurrent to SetFocus the first tab when the user moves to a new record by "falling off the end" of the previous record, but leave the tab focus alone if the user is just stepping through the records.
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I have a Tab Control element containing 2 tabs: Tab1 and Tab2. Tab2 contains a ListBox element whose RowSource queries the data that gets submitted in Tab1.
Say the user opens this form containing these 2 tabs. They are originally on Tab1. in the Form_Load event for Tab2, it queries the data it needs to populate its ListBox. Now they switch tabs to Tab1. They enter some data and submit a new record to the corresponding table (the same table that the Tab2 ListBox uses as its RowSource). When the user switches back to Tab2, they don't see this newly added record.
What I have done so far is that when the user clicks anywhere in the ListBox, it calls Requery, and then the record will show up. This isn't enough as it's not intuitive for the user to have to click on the listbox to update its contents.
I have tried putting this Requery code in a Form_Load, Form_Activate, GotFocus, but nothing works. I know you can detect the TabControl clicks, but how can I access the forms and the elements that they contain?
Any ideas on how to requery this listbox whenever the tab gains control?
If you want to add code for a specific tab on a tabcontrol, the most convenient way to do that is to write code in the TabCtl_Change event. That occurs when the tab control is changed. E.g.:
Private Sub MyTabCtl_Change()
If MyTabCtl.Pages(MyTabCtl.Value).Name = "Tab2" Then 'The tab control just changed to your page
'Requery that list box
End If
End Sub
Note that, if you're not using a tab control at all, but a navigation control (which it does sound like, tab controls don't necessarily have subforms on them, and don't have Form_Load events, forms do)
You're most likely looking for the On Activate trigger.
Then, in the code just use Form.Requery or Form.Recalc depending on which you're actually looking to do.
Alternatively, you could use the same control the user is using to submit records to trigger a requery. Although, that would require a specific Form to be called into focus.
When I tab through records in my (datasheet) form, the tab key behavior is as expected; Focus moves to the next field, and then at the end of the fields moves to the next record. In forms where I have master-child subdatasheets, when the subdatasheet isn't expanded and the user tabs past the end of a record, focus moves to the next record. This is good / what I want. When a subdatasheet is expanded and the user tabs past the end of the master record, focus moves to the first field in the child subdatasheet. Again this is good / what I want.
What happens on the next tab key press is my issue. Rather than moving focus to the next field in the subdatasheet, focus goes straight to the next record in the master datasheet. I expect and want focus to go to the next field in the subdatasheet.
I have been playing with the tabstops and cycle properties on both the main form, subform, and subform control within the main form, and cannot come to a configuration where I get the behavior I desire.
Solved this now and thought I should log it here. Was a pretty stupid problem caused by an oversight on my part.
Basically, all of the controls on my subdatasheet were being set to locked and tabstop = false, in a procedure I have to apply control settings by control name. So I'd actually made those settings a while ago, forgotten, and then assumed that the user should be able to tab through them.
Obviously Access was hitting the subdatasheet control, going "no controls available to tab through here", and so immediately exiting the subdatasheet control.
When I was trying in code to set focus to any of the controls, the reserved error 2950 must've been because the controls weren't tab-stoppable.
I have a form which contains multiple datasheet subforms, sorted into different pages of a tab control.
Each subform datasheet is based on an entirely different query, although in my case all subforms will always contain the exact same number of records as each other.
Question: Is it possible to programmatically capture user scrolling input (via keyboard, mousewheel, navigation buttons, or any combination thereof) and pass that information across subforms, so that, regardless of what the user does, whenever they switch pages/tabs, the same record number will always appear in row position one on every page/tab?
E.g. I have three subforms, each located with its own page control, and each underlying recordset has exactly 1000 records. A user scrolls down so that record # 575 shows in the first row of that page's subform. The user never actually selects any record, merely scrolls using mouse or keybpoard.
Is it possible to guarantee, that if the user switches to a different page/tab, that record number 575 of the corresponding recordset will show in the first row of the new page's datasheet?
There is no event to catch the scrolling itself, but you can control that the same current row id is visible in all subforms.
Full code and explanation including a working demo can be found and downloaded here:
Synchronizing Multiple Subforms in Access
I have a form with a 2-page tab control.
The first page has a subform with a button on the subform that's supposed to requery another subform that is on the second page.
Forms!myMainForm!mySubForm.Requery
The main form and its fields are used to create new records and the subform on the second page shows these records.
Here's a screenshot of page 1's subform and button:
http://i.imgur.com/RLsgcSi.jpg
When the button is clicked, the subform on the second page shows any new record at the bottom of the list instead of being sorted in descending date/time order. Also the Funding Rate field does not seem to get its conditional formatting applied:
http://i.imgur.com/QRvI5fy.jpg
I've been able to get the subform to display correctly if I also add some VBA to the button to switch to the second page of the tab, but I'd rather not do this.
Is it possible to requery a subform and have it display correctly when the user is ready to see it?
Migrate froms Tabs to Navigation Control. Usual Tabs are preloaded and will increase the main form load time. On the other hand, Navigation control only loads the form when its opened. This eliminates your needs to manually re-query the second tab.
PS: I'm interested in something in your form, what is your best contact method?
Forms!myMainForm!mySubForm.Requery
This requeries the mySubForm control on myMainForm, but not the subform itself.
Try instead:
Forms!myMainForm!mySubForm.Form.Requery
(note: I'm not 100% sure this will solve the issue)
I'm designing a Form in Access 2003. My goal is that when the user double-clicks on a record (aka Detail), a second form opens. This is easy enough to do when I start from scratch.
But of course, I'm not starting from scratch. I've been working on this for a few hours now, have added some conditionally formatted textboxes, fields, etc, and don't want to start over if I can avoid it.
I don't know if I turned on/off some obscure property, but I've been working on this form for a few hours now and the Double-Click event of the Details section only triggers when I double-click on the first record or any other with conditional formatting.
To troubleshoot this, I've gone so far as to comment out all the other VBA script except this:
Private Sub Form_Load()
Me.Application.DoCmd.Maximize
End Sub
Sub GotoFrmDetails()
MsgBox "You Double Clicked Me!"
End Sub
Even with the VBA script reduced to just these lines, the DoubleClick event only triggers on the first record and no other. Can anyone tell me what wrong? I'd rather not have to rebuild this from scratch.
I find the click events of form sections to be more trouble than they are worth (click event doesn't pass through to the form if user clicks on a control or label, etc). What I use instead are transparent command buttons.
Just add a command button to your form and set its Transparent property equal to True. Then you can use the Z-order to make fine-grain changes if necessary (send to front/back, send forward/back).
They can be hard to find once you make them transparent, so be sure to give them descriptive names.
If you want the user to be able to double click anywhere in the detail section, just make the transparent command button's height/width match the section height/width.
Move your code from the Detail section DoubleClick event to the transparent command button's DoubleClick event and you should be good to go.
I'm wondering if the rows are getting their Locked property set to Yes, or their Enabled property set to No during your condition formatting.