Referencing controls within navigation forms
I am going crazy trying to find a way to reference a control within navigation forms
I have a two forms one called weekly lists and one called listbulk the list bulk form has a control on it called teach.
I have tried every connotation
[Forms]![weekly lists]![ListBulk].[Form].[
I start with a form called menu I click a tab that opens another navigation form called weekly lists. On the weekly lists navigation form I click a tab that opens a form called listbulk and I have a control on that form called teach.
driving me mad!
Tricia
I have a two forms one called weekly lists and one called listbulk the list bulk form has a control on it called teach.
I have tried every connotation
[Forms]![weekly lists]![ListBulk].[Form].[
I start with a form called menu I click a tab that opens another navigation form called weekly lists. On the weekly lists navigation form I click a tab that opens a form called listbulk and I have a control on that form called teach.
driving me mad!
Tricia
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I am sorry but I don't know how to do what you suggest as my VB knowledge is very poor. I update data using an append query with this in the query
Teach: [Forms]![listbulk].[teach]
where teach is a control on the listbulk form but as soon as I put this form within a navigation form it stops working
Tricia
Teach: [Forms]![listbulk].[teach]
where teach is a control on the listbulk form but as soon as I put this form within a navigation form it stops working
Tricia
No problem not knowing about VBA...can't be an expert in everything :)
It seems to me that you may be hitting a context problem, where the reference gets lost when you move it to the navigation form.
Did you create the navigation form or was it an Access wizard? Since Access uses many different terms that sometime mean the same thing, I want to make sure we're referring to the same things.
Also, did you build this, [Forms]![listbulk].[teach]
(I don't have Access on this machine so I can't try it at the moment.)
It seems to me that you may be hitting a context problem, where the reference gets lost when you move it to the navigation form.
Did you create the navigation form or was it an Access wizard? Since Access uses many different terms that sometime mean the same thing, I want to make sure we're referring to the same things.
Also, did you build this, [Forms]![listbulk].[teach]
(I don't have Access on this machine so I can't try it at the moment.)
Oddly enough, I just had a very similar problem yesterday, and removing the prefixes solved the problem. (Of course, there was an appropriate reference and it used a lookup to the information needed.)
Have you tried replacing
[Forms]![weekly lists]![ListBulk].[Form].[
with
[weekly lists]![ListBulk].[Form].[
or something like that?
If that doesn't work, I''d use the query builder to try to re-build it.
Have you tried replacing
[Forms]![weekly lists]![ListBulk].[Form].[
with
[weekly lists]![ListBulk].[Form].[
or something like that?
If that doesn't work, I''d use the query builder to try to re-build it.
ASKER
Finally this worked
=[Forms]![Menu]![menu].[Fo
=[Forms]![Menu]![menu].[Fo
ASKER
I've requested that this question be closed as follows:
Accepted answer: 0 points for tmckeating's comment #a39941921
for the following reason:
Found the answer myself after trial and error
Accepted answer: 0 points for tmckeating's comment #a39941921
for the following reason:
Found the answer myself after trial and error
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I don't understand the question
The question is how you came to your solution? What process did you use to come up with that?
First, make sure the form you want to reference is open (otherwise you'll need code to open it and show it.)
Next see if you see it in VBA by starting to type it's name then pressing the Ctrl+J key combination. If it does not show up in the list, then the name may not be what you expect.