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Dynamic forms in Access 2003

Asked by solution46 in Microsoft Access Database

Tags: access, dynamic, 2003, form

All,

I need to build a fully dynamic form and wondered what your thoughts are. I know this question has been asked before (here... http://www.experts-exchange.com/Databases/MS_Access/Q_20740355.html) but this was a while ago and I'm wondering if any of you have any other ideas.

In short, the user can define a series of 'questions and answers'. These questions can have a variety of different types of answers (current data types are long text, a series of checkboxes, a drop-down option list and short text). These will need to be represented on a form, which obviously is initially undefined. The table structure is defined and working; it is just rendering the form that is causing me problems.

My eventual aim is to get this written in ASP.NET. However, before I get that far I need to sort out a working demo / prototype and, rightly or wrongly, I have chosen Access to do this. The good thing is that the system will never be 'live' so it doesn't have to be massively resilient and frequent compact & repairs wont be an issue.

Options I have so far are:
1. A continuous form bound to a table of Qs and As. Each record will have a combo box, series of check boxes and so on; various controls to be hidden / shown as required. I think this can be done with conditional formatting but it doesn't lend itself at all well to the varying physical sizes of the questions (some may have a single line of text, some may have a dozen or more checkboxes to list).
2. Writing the form in code using CreateControl.

At the moment, option 2 is my preferred route (bit of a nightmare to write but flexible enough to be possible) but I want to know if you have any other ideas.

As this is both quite tricky and bl**dy urgent :), max points are available and I'll open up another q to give more points for staggeringly good suggestions.

Cheers,

s46.
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