Popup Forms

[Graybeard]

I have several forms with Subforms. The subforms are linked to the main form with 2 fields. If I create a popup-up form and move some of the fields on the subform to the popup form do I have also have link the popup form and if so does it have to be the subform or the mainform?

 

[KenHigg]

There's not a link with a pop up form like there is with form/subform. In fact, the term 'pop-up form' is a bit miss leading. A pop-up form is just a regular form that has certain properties enabled that cause it to behave differently. That's all.

You can set up a criteria on the popup form’s record source the references a field on the main form. Make sense?

Also if it's screen real estate that's a problem, you may look at using a tabbed control...

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ken

 

[Graybeard]

Thankyou, Ken. It is Real Estate I am concerned with. I have considered tab controls. I am confused. LOL. I posted a question about tab controls on another thread. (It is right below this thread) and I was advised I would be better off with a popup form. So I am not sure which way to go. As I asked in my tabs question if I could place the tab controls in a minimized form and use code or a macro to resize the tabbed control when the user clicked on it I would go with tab controls. Can you help with this?

 

[KenHigg]

I think you would need to share the related data model in order to evaluate the interface you describe.

1. What does the db do?
2. What tables / relationships do you have?
3. How do you want the forms to interact with the tables?

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ken