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Should Access 2007 "Continuous" Forms work with "Unbound" recordsets?

Asked by colinasad in Access Forms

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I'm trying to create an Access 2007 form that allows a user to work on the content of an order (tables stored in SQL Server Express). Because I want to allow the user to "change their mind" and abort all the changes they have made, I was hoping to use a "local" copy of the data rather than having each change they have made immediately updating the underlying tables.
The strategy I chose was to try using an "unbound recordset" which I declare and populate locally when the form is loaded. This does seem to allow me to work on an order's content without the changes being immediately saved to the tables.
My problem is that despite setting my form's "Default View" property to "Continous Forms", the individual records from the recordset are displayed as if in "Single Form" view. Although I have created my own "Next" and "Previous" buttons and can step through the cirrect number of records in my recordset, the Access "navigation" panel at the bottom of the screen only seems to think I have 1 record and has disabled its next and previous buttons. I assume this is linked to my inability to get a "continuous" list on the screen; something behind the scenes seems to think I only have a single record.
Can you tell me what I am doing wrong, and how an "unbound" recordset can be displayed in "continuous" mode?
Many thanks. Colin.Start Free Trial
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