thanks in advance for any help
I am trying to figure out how to make pop-up sub form the only available focus for a user in a database. So that the user is essentially forced to complete/save/close the sub form, before they can return to the parent form. This I imagine involves disabling the parent form and trying to keep it at the bottom of the pile so to speak.
Im trying to do this in vba as a public subroutine, unfortunately I'm not getting very far! It would seem to me that this type of functionality would be quite common place when pop up forms are used, am I overlooking a common feature?
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Noel
Very simple:
DoCmd.OpenForm kfrmArt,acNormal,,,,acDialog
This will stop all processing the next lines until your form closes.
You can also set the form's modal property to true. Here is documentation on it:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa195316(office.10).aspx
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I have an Access 2010 database set up with using the native Navigation Form interface feature.
Using this very helpful table, I've been able to use vba on multiple ocassions to reference forms throughout my database. However I seem to be having difficulty in this one instance.
On the Navigation form I have a number of main tabs. Clicking on one of the main tabs brings up a number of sub-tabs that have various forms attached to them.
On one of these sub-tabs, I have a main form (main) attached to it. There is a subform (subform1) within that main form containing a control text box (control1). Within subform1 there is another form (subform2) containing an unbound text box (control2) displaying a value that is calculated using a TempVar.
I want to use the AfterUpdate event on control1 to requery subform2 in order to update the calculation in control2, or simply requery control2.
Using Refresh and/or Requery on the AfterUpdate event for control1 does not do anything to control2.
Currently I have a button on subform2 that users can click which refreshes the form and updates the value in control2. The user can also hit F5 and refresh all the forms with the same result.
My goal is to take away the manual aspect and have the AfterUpdate event for control1 to update control2.
Any help would be much appreciated as I haven't been able to find anything online that works and I've been kicking tires at the problem for over a month now.
**** UPDATE **** I did not correctly describe the layout of my forms. subform1 and subform2 are actually both nested under main. subform2 is NOT nested under subform1 as I originally described above.
Wow. Now I feel like an idiot. Tackling my problem again with the update I provided above allowed me to solve it.
All I needed to do was requery subform2 by referencing it this way:
[Forms]![HOME]![NavigationSubform].[Form]![subform2].[Form].Requery
Where "HOME" is the name of my Navigation Form.
For anyone with the same issue that hasn't renamed their Navigation Form I believe the syntax would be:
[Forms]![Navigation Form]![NavigationSubform].[Form]![subform2].[Form].Requery
Thank you to #Erik von Asmuth and #June7 for your patience and help.
I have created a tabbed main form with sub forms. I set one of the tabs visibility properties to invisible and use a command button to open said form. When I open the subform with command button and enter data, the data does not save to the form but does save to the table. The reason I am using this method is that the sub form is a log and it is easier for the users. The Master Child fields are correct and so are the table relations. Can anyone shed some light on this? Thank you is advance for any assistance. Oh and I am using 2016
Not sure if it's the issue or not but consider looking at the Forms Property Sheet and double check that you have Data Entry set to "No" and all the "Allow" properties set to yes.
EDIT: For clarification, I'm talking in the below post about tabbed document browsing, not a Tab Control. However, if you're looking for roughly the same problem but regarding a Tab Control, Gord Thompson's answer is correct. Two answers for the price of one!
I've got an Access 2007 database that uses tabbed documents. I need to run some VBA code every time a user selects the form called "Reports", either via opening it or clicking on its tab if it's already open.
I could achieve much the same thing by closing it each time it's used and running the code on an OnLoad event, but ideally I'd like to keep it open so that users can keep the settings of the various drop down boxes, radio boxes etc that they've already set on "Reports".
I was hoping for an event that could run code on tab reselection, but neither of my guesses (OnCurrent and GotFocus) seem to work (OnCurrent works only when the form is opened, like OnLoad would).
Any ideas greatly appreciated - can't find what I'm looking for on Google, though I suspect that's because I don't know exactly what I'm looking for.
The .Value property of a TabControl returns the index (zero-based) of the current page. So, if I have a TabControl named TabCtl14 that contains two pages, FirstPage and SecondPage, then the code...
Private Sub TabCtl14_Click()
If Me.TabCtl14.Value = 1 Then
MsgBox "SecondPage was clicked."
End If
End Sub
...displays the MsgBox whenever I click the "SecondPage" tab in the TabControl.
Have found the answer I was looking for. It's the OnActivate event.
I'm trying to write some code for my database to enable a dropdown box in a parameter prompt for a query, but it's doing nothing instead of it's intended purpose. This:
Dropdown in Access 2007 parameter query
has been the source of my inspiration. Though I seem to be unable to implement even the most basic VBA code:
Private Sub cmdReset_Click()
Me.cboSelectName = Null
End Sub
(Yes this is not all my code! Just one of the subs)
On the relevant form, I have a button called "cmdReset", which has "[Event Procedure]" for the event "On-Click". I also have a dropdown box called "cboSelectName" on said form. Also I have tried closing the database, and making sure to enable macros when it starts.
So essentially this code should make the value in the dropdown box null when I click the reset button. However it does nothing, it simply deselects the dropdown box. Can anyone help me with this one? I'm keen to start implementing some VBA in my database!
As suggested by Remou, the code wasn't even running. I figured out my problem - I had saved the code in a new module, rather than in the VBA code for my form. Once I shifted the code into the form object, the reset button worked. I've also now got some nifty code working with the actual "generate report" command. VBA really has the power to take your database to a whole new level!
My Access 2000 DB causes me problems - sometimes (haven't pinpointed the cause) the "book" form won't close. Clicking its close button does nothing, File -> Close does nothing, even closing Access results in no action. I don't have an OnClose handler for this form. The only workaround I can find involves opening the Vba editor, making a change to the code for that form (even adding a space and then immediately deleting the space), and then going back to close the "book" form, closing it, and saying "no, I don't want to save the changes". Only then will it close. Any help?
Here's a forum post describing, I think, the same problem you face. Excerpt belows states a workaround.
What I do is to put code on the close button that reassigns the sourceobject
of any subforms to a blank form, such as:
me!subParts.sourceobject = "subBlank" 'subBlank is my form that is
totally blank, free of code and controls, etc.
docmd.close acForm, "fParts", acSaveNo
The above 2 lines is the only way I've found to prevent the Access prompt
from popping up.
http://bytes.com/forum/thread681889.html
Another alternative is
(Me.Checkbox)
or my preferred syntax:
(Me!Checkbox)
It seems to me that there is much confusion in the posts in this topic. The answer that was chosen by the original poster cites an article where the user had a prompt to save design changes to the form, but the problem described here seems like it's a failure of the form to close, not a save issue (the save issue came up only in the workaround describing going to the VBE and making a code change).
I wonder if the original user might have incorrect VBE options set? If you open the VBE and go to TOOLS | OPTIONS, on the GENERAL tab, you'll see several choices about error handling. BREAK ON UNHANDLED ERRORS or BREAK IN CLASS MODULE should be chosen, but it's important to recognize that if you use the former, you may not see certain kinds of errors.
There's not really enough detail to diagnose much more, other than the fact that the reference to the checkbox control seemed to have been causing the problem, but there are a number of Access coding best practices that can help you avoid some of these oddities. The code-related recommendations in Tony Toews's Best Practices page are a good place to start.
That sure is weird. Do you have any timer controls on the form? If you do, try disabling it in the OnClose.
There is a possibility that the message box that asks if you want to save changes is being displayed behind the form. I believe that this message box is modal so you must click yes or no before you can do anything with the form which is why you can't close it.
Does your form have an unload event? That can be canceled, and if it is, the form won't close when it's in form view. It will only close in design view, which, when you edit the vba code is what the form does in the Access window when you're editing the code.
Does your form have a checkbox, toggle button or option button? There's a bug in Access 2000 where Access won't close if you test the value without explicitly using the Value property in the vba code, like this:
If Me.chkbox Then
versus:
If Me.chkbox.Value Then