Tabbed Form - unbound text box

[JackG]

I'm trying to use an unbound text box to serve as a search or record selection. In regular forms I put these text boxes in the header section and they work fine. The tabbed form doesn't allow a header to be used.... Is there a way around this, or, am I just out of luck?

Thanks

 

[WayneRyan]

Jack,

If your textbox is unbound, put it on the form and use
either the BeforeUpdate or AfterUpdate to trigger whatever
search mechanism you are using.

You can alter the form's recordsource and requery or just
do a requery if your form is based on a query.

Wayne

 

[Rob.Mills]

Do you mean a tabular form like a continuous form? If so, that will let you use a header. That's where you would keep the labels for the columns

 

[JackG]

Rob: It's a tab control form (file folder type form). My main question concerned the lack of a header in this form format.

I'll just have to use the search feature (combo box) [easily done with the wizard] in each tabbed section I guess (as Wayne described) .

It's no biggie, but I was curious as to why the header was not available in this type of form. You can view the header, put objects in it and when you go to form view it's not there.

thanks to you all...
Jack