Circumvent Continuous Forms within Continuous Forms Issue
User selects customer from selection form.
Single form is displayed with customer information.
Below the customer is another form that allows the user to select a Package Type that is tied back to the customer with the customer id. User can select multiple package types. Each package type can have multiple contents. In the example below, the Package Type BOX contains gloves, hammer, and Nails. If the user selects Bottle, there would be different contents. Previously, i would have handled this with a continuous form within a continuous form. However, 2013 put a halt to that. The package contents are tied back to the package type via the package type id. The Package type is tied back to the Customer via the customer id. Can I create a form that looks like this so when the user chooses the package type they can see the package type selected and the items in the package. Both subforms will be continuous forms.
+-------------------------
| Customer Info
+-------------------------
+--------------------- +-------------------------
|Package Type |Package Contents
+--------------------- +-------------------------
|Box____________ |Gloves
|Bottle |Hammer
|Can |Nails
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Single form is displayed with customer information.
Below the customer is another form that allows the user to select a Package Type that is tied back to the customer with the customer id. User can select multiple package types. Each package type can have multiple contents. In the example below, the Package Type BOX contains gloves, hammer, and Nails. If the user selects Bottle, there would be different contents. Previously, i would have handled this with a continuous form within a continuous form. However, 2013 put a halt to that. The package contents are tied back to the package type via the package type id. The Package type is tied back to the Customer via the customer id. Can I create a form that looks like this so when the user chooses the package type they can see the package type selected and the items in the package. Both subforms will be continuous forms.
+-------------------------
| Customer Info
+-------------------------
+--------------------- +-------------------------
|Package Type |Package Contents
+--------------------- +-------------------------
|Box____________ |Gloves
|Bottle |Hammer
|Can |Nails
---------------------
" Previously, i would have handled this with a continuous form within a continuous form."
I agree with Miriam - this has never been possible in Access.
You can place more than one subform onto a main form, and each subform can be set as continuous forms or as a datasheet. So maybe you can look at your requirements and see if that sort of design will work.
I agree with Miriam - this has never been possible in Access.
You can place more than one subform onto a main form, and each subform can be set as continuous forms or as a datasheet. So maybe you can look at your requirements and see if that sort of design will work.
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Actually, you can have a continuous form within a continuous form. The second continuous form must be placed in the form footer.
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My solution, based on the link you sent me, was to add the continuous forms as subforms on my main form. I then linked the forms manually.
Source Object = NameOfForm
Link Master Fields = NameOfForm.Form!LinkColumn
Link Child Fields = LinkColumnName
Worked great. Thanks for getting me on the right path.
Source Object = NameOfForm
Link Master Fields = NameOfForm.Form!LinkColumn
Link Child Fields = LinkColumnName
Worked great. Thanks for getting me on the right path.
You can embed continuous forms in a form in datasheet view... or a datasheet as a subform to another datasheet. (However this approache generally makes for a slow-loading form).