Contact Management

[Dick7Access]

I have downloaded a contact management template from MS. I am studying ever aspect of it to learn some of access that I haven't learned yet. When a form is open in design view, how do I identify what kind of form they started with? Everything I googled is about how to make a form.

 

[AccessBlaster]

If in design view you notice the controls seem to be grouped and locked together, then your probably dealing with a "split form" 2007-2013.

 

[Dick7Access]

Thanks, is there any positive way even if it is another view such as layout or form view itself?

 

[AccessBlaster]

You could be dealing with a web based application. Hard to tell from your description. Try posting it.

 

[MarkK]

When a form is open in design view, how do I identify what kind of form they started with?

What "kinds" of forms are there? AFAIK there is just one, but to make a split form, or a continuous form, and so on, you just set different properties.

 

[Dick7Access]

You could be dealing with a web based application. Hard to tell from your description. Try posting it.

Contact List
Contact Details

This is the two form in this db. The question however is not to just determine what type of form are used here, but when ever I go to any database I want to be able to quickly identify what form is being used, so I can help others to add other features to their db, or to maybe even un-crash
Thanks D7A

 

[Dick7Access]

What "kinds" of forms are there? AFAIK there is just one, but to make a split form, or a continuous form, and so on, you just set different properties.

Making a form I would of course pick what kind of form it would be. I am working on learning to identify other peoples forms.

 

[MarkK]

I am working on learning to identify other peoples forms.

The point I am making is that there are not different 'kinds' of forms, there are just different 'views'. A form has a property called Default View. Depending on the value of that property, the form will display itself in different ways when it opens, but this is a relatively superficial issue about how a form displays. This is not a fundamentally different 'kind' of form.

 

[Dick7Access]

The point I am making is that there are not different 'kinds' of forms, there are just different 'views'. A form has a property called Default View. Depending on the value of that property, the form will display itself in different ways when it opens, but this is a relatively superficial issue about how a form displays. This is not a fundamentally different 'kind' of form.

Ok, different views. If I understand you correctly all I need to do is go to the property sheet and get my answer. is that correct?

 

[MarkK]

If I understand you correctly all I need to do is go to the property sheet and get my answer. is that correct?

Yes, exactly right, and as such, you can never tell what the original default view was of a form at creation time, in the same way you can't tell when the original Forecolor was, because it just a setting, and when you change it, the previous value is erased.

 

[Dick7Access]

Yes, exactly right, and as such, you can never tell what the original default view was of a form at creation time, in the same way you can't tell when the original Forecolor was, because it just a setting, and when you change it, the previous value is erased.

Thanks. Don't really need to know the original view, just the one I am looking at.

 

[MarkK]

Yeah, so check out the Default View property. It's on the Format tab of the Form's property sheet in design view. Also, when you open the form using DoCmd.OpenForm, you can override the Default View by providing a value for the optional View parameter.
Hope this helps,