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My issue is I have about 20 individual forms each which are unique to a table and those tables unique to one parent table.
I have created a main form which pulls the universal items from the main parent tbl and matches based on if statements to pull the subform(one of the 20 frms/tbls).
I originally created one form linked to one table within the wizard and from there i copied that form and just changed the control source.
The issue i have come across is I am trying to add an item from the main universal table to one of the forms. I went in added a new box and changed the record source on the form to
SELECT tblPRMNew.*, tblMainHeader.EnteredbyMGI FROM tblMainHeader LEFT JOIN tblPRMNew ON tblMainHeader.MainHeaderID = tblPRMNew.MainHeaderID;
Everything is fine until I add a new item and link it to the record source that is within the mainheadertbl.
I have also tried not changing the record source for the form properties and instead just tried adding a new item and changing the control source by doing an expression builder. I come up with
=[tblMainHeader]![EnteredbyMGI]
then once i open the form i get a #name? which i think is stating it isnt linked correctly
in either case once i save the table keep in mind this is access 03 once saved i cannot open the form in design view or the form view and in many cases the saving the form causes access to crash.
So is there a way to reopen the wizard to link a secondary table to an existing form? or what am i doing wrong
thanks
My issue is I have about 20 individual forms each which are unique to a table and those tables unique to one parent table.
I have created a main form which pulls the universal items from the main parent tbl and matches based on if statements to pull the subform(one of the 20 frms/tbls).
I originally created one form linked to one table within the wizard and from there i copied that form and just changed the control source.
The issue i have come across is I am trying to add an item from the main universal table to one of the forms. I went in added a new box and changed the record source on the form to
SELECT tblPRMNew.*, tblMainHeader.EnteredbyMGI FROM tblMainHeader LEFT JOIN tblPRMNew ON tblMainHeader.MainHeaderID = tblPRMNew.MainHeaderID;
Everything is fine until I add a new item and link it to the record source that is within the mainheadertbl.
I have also tried not changing the record source for the form properties and instead just tried adding a new item and changing the control source by doing an expression builder. I come up with
=[tblMainHeader]![EnteredbyMGI]
then once i open the form i get a #name? which i think is stating it isnt linked correctly
in either case once i save the table keep in mind this is access 03 once saved i cannot open the form in design view or the form view and in many cases the saving the form causes access to crash.
So is there a way to reopen the wizard to link a secondary table to an existing form? or what am i doing wrong
thanks
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