Pop-up amnesia

[Boatman]

Novice question:- I have persuaded a pop-up form to appear for enquiry and entry of additional data, but the pop-up appears to refer to the first record in the table, not the same record as on the original form as intended. I think I want to retain the Current Record gizzmo. Access ver. 7.0 is trying to help me........

 

[SomeGuy]

This is exactly what Fornation told me to do when I had a similar problem:

Try setting the default value of the linked field in your pop-up form to the primary ref on the parent form - Forms![MainForm]![IDField].

In other words, you should have an ID field on both records and you need to set the default value in the ID field of your pop-up form to the same ID value as your main form

 

[Boatman]

Thanks SomeGuy and Fornation.
The reply did not instantly fix my problem, but it did alert me to the notion of primary references. Now I am making more progress through reference books and help files.
Thanks for being there!

 

[rohdem]

Another option might be to create a subform and let the wizard link the two forms, then make the subform visible or invisible whenever you like.