I have a pretty standard form to enter data about contracts. Depending on the type of contract, the user will answer a yes/no type question, and the result will determine what set of information needs to be entered next. Since the variables are grouped intrinsically, I would like to make them visible or not depending on what is necessary. I know how to do this with just one control, but not several at a time. Is there a way to treat them as a group, and have the form make the group appear/disappear as needed, or do I have to list out each control everytime i need to do this? Any help would be much appreciated.
I'm not entirely new to Access, but I don't have the formal training or experience to accomplish what I'm attempting. And, after hours of research, I haven't been able to find anything that quite works. I know it's do-able, I just can't figure it out. Any help is much appreciated. I'm using Access 97.
In a form (MasterBadgeForm), all fields require completion. However, I want to force the user to complete 2 fields before any of the others are visible.
The 1st 2 required fields are: - HostLastName: ComboBox (user's last name based on a simple query called HostMasterQuery) - Visitor_Guest: Bound option group frame with option buttons "Visitor" (option value = 1) and "Guest" (option value = 2).
Note: The logic behind using an option group frame (instead of check boxes, etc.) is to force the user to choose "Visitor" or "Guest", but not both or none.
After both fields ("HostLastName" and "Visitor_Guest") are completed, I want 2 things to happen:
First: Depending on the choice selected in the Visitor_Guest option group frame, I want respective combo boxes to either be visible/available, or not. For example, if the user selects the "Visitor" option button, I want to make visible a combo box named VBadgesCombo (based on a simple query that has pre-defined "Visitor" numbers) and "hide" the combo box named GBadgesCombo. The same concept applies if the user selects the "Guest" option button.
Second: I want all the other required fields to become visible.
I've done a ton of research, but I just can't quite figure it out. Any help is much appreciated.
I have a music database in which I keep track of my CDs and how many times I've listened to them. I have a report that uses grouping to show me the total listens for each artist for each year - the totals are in a group footer, with nothing in the detail section of the report. It looks something like this:
The first line is the column header showing years (last 2 digits for space reasons).
The second and subsequent lines are created in the group footer section, first is the artist name, then the Sum of listens for all titles by that artist in the year given ([Sum of Listens1994]).
This report works perfectly.
Here's what I want to do, and I can't get it to work:
In the above lines of data, let's say that the earliest title for BAND1 is from 1975, and the earliest title for BAND2 is from 2001. My yearly counts start in 1994. Therefore, there were listens for BAND1 prior to 1994, but there weren't any listens for BAND2 prior to 2001.
GOAL: Instead of showing "00" on the BAND2 line for years 1994-2000, I want them blank.
I've put a conditional format code in OnFormat for the group footer section, telling Access to turn visibility off for the text box control ([Sum of Listens1994] etc) if the [Earliest] field (which contains 2001) is greater than the year being displayed (1994 first, and so on). This, which seems like it should work, makes no difference. Oddly, if I put a F9 code break on the If statement, it never breaks, which makes me believe the code is never even being executed.
I do have prior experience with controlling field visibility in forms and reports, so the concepts aren't new to me. I feel like the big difference with this one is that it's in the group footer section rather than the detail section. [Access 2013]
Is there a way to have an expression in the control source of a text box in a report, that re-starts or is exclusive for every group within the report?
I stumbled upon the Option Group function just yesterday and, happy as a clam, I created a group with 2 options in radio button style. I assigned the values to a field called Registration_Type as the 2 options are "Confirmed Registrants" and "Prospective Attendees".
[Great. That part works well. When I look at the table, a 1 or a 2 is in that field so it's great to know how to control accidental ticking of radio buttons (previous 450 records or so didn't have this option group functionality so one might easily tick one of the buttons. So one part of controlling option group I know I can handle via the table itself for now.]
The challenge is how to ensure the user always ticks one or the other ... I went back to the main table and tested the 'required entry' option for the Registration_Type field but forcing an action like this is not ideal in my mind. The usual error message vagueness for the average user is no good and I don't want to limit the user so much.
Is there a way to simply have a popup come up warning that neither radio button was ticked? Perhaps something linked to the form - i.e., maybe "after update"?? I only learned about attaching code to before and after update on controls a couple of days ago, so not sure if this would be best approach.
Just something to let the user know that nothing has been ticked in the option group as that controls in which of 2 reports the data will show up in so any record not ticked might mean a registrant being left out, which would be rather disastrous <g>.
I have a form in my Access database that after trying to add another field to it today, I get the error "Microsoft Access can't create any more controls on this form or report."
I'm guessing I reached some type of limit that I was not aware of. How can I get around this?
I read somewhere that you can have more than one row of tab comtrols on a form. I have searched the forum for any threads or posts on the issue but can't find anything. Does anyone know how to do it?
is it actually possible to place a tab control within another tab control? every time i try to put one on it ends up beneath? would be good to have because even with one tab control my forms still look very busy!!
I have placed a tab control within a tab control (which I have done before). The problem is that the sub tab control appears on every page of the main tab form (encountered this before). I fixed it in the past by placing code on the on open event to make the sub tab control not visible unless the appropriate tab is selected. That worked fine.
I have tried this in the new program and find that when I set the value of the main tab form to 4 (the page index of the tab) the sub tab form will not display at all. However if I set it to zero it will display regardless of which tab is selected. Confusion has now set in :confused: . Any thoughts out there on what I have done incorrectly.
[/CODE]Private Sub Form_Open(Cancel As Integer)
'Me.OrderBy = "RankNo desc" 'Me.OrderByOn = True If TabCtl44.Value = 4 Then TabCtl144.Visible = True Else TabCtl144.Visible = False End If End Sub[CODE]
I have a main form which shows customer personal details including their budget and a subform which shows the costs for each course they book. The sub form has 4 boxes which I use to capture course fee, travel fees,subsistance and other expenses (along with other details such as course code etc). These cost details are stored in the table study_leave_recs in the respective 4 fields. I show on the subform the total spend for each course being booked using a calculated control. On the main form I use four dsum statements added together to show the total spend per customer. =DSum("[COUR_ACT_FEE]","study_leave_recs ","BUDGET_HOLDER_ID=[study_leave_recs].[Form]![budget_holder_id]")+DSum("[COUR_ACT_TRAVEL]","study_leave_recs ","BUDGET_HOLDER_ID=[study_leave_recs].[Form]![budget_holder_id]")+DSum("[COUR_ACT_SUBSISTANCE]","study_leave_recs ","BUDGET_HOLDER_ID=[study_leave_recs].[Form]![budget_holder_id]")++DSum("[COUR_ACT_OTHER_EXPEN]","study_leave_recs ","BUDGET_HOLDER_ID=[study_leave_recs].[Form]![budget_holder_id]")
It works ok but is there a better way of doing this? Also is there any way I can use the resultant output to calculate / show the remaining budget (the budget is held in the general table "people"? I'm having trouble using the above statement to subtract the calculated spend from the budget box shown in the main form!!
I would appreciate any help, I seem to have spent ages on this on! Thanks in advance. Regards Peter
I wanna know if it's possible to use an access 2002 form to create some controls(icons) on top of a picture (a map) so that i can click those icons to display some info. The trick part is that those icons positions are generated by x,y coordinates from the db itself. Plus a zooming control wold be a plus...
I am currently using a popup Calendar in Access "Calendar Control 9". I mousedown on a field and the Calendar pops-up. I select the date and it populates field1. So far, so good. After I select the date I need I would like for field2 to populate with a date that is exactly six months out from the date I selected for field1. Any suggestions. I hope this can be done as it would help immensely.
Recently I designed a form with several controls including both TextBox and Combox. Before I submit data by clicking the button, I use VBA to validate the values of those controls (textbox and combox). If the value is not valid, the system will eject a msgbox and automatically set the focus on that component. In order to tidy the code, I use a GoTo statement, which refers to a group of code to display the message due to the value of parameters
But it seems VBA doesn't recongize the control I set through the parameter.
The code as the following:
private function validation () as boolean
Dim ErrorMessage as string Dim ErrorComponent as String
...... ErrorMessage="Please select the shop Name" ErrorComponent="ShopName" // ShopNameis a combox
GoTo ExitFunction .....
...... ErrorMessage="Please set the start date" ErrorComponent="StartDate" // StartDate is a Textbox GoTo ExitFunction .....
As I tested for seveal time, I'm sure there is something wrong with " msgResult = MsgBox(ErrorMessage, vbOKOnly, "Error Message") Me(ErrorComponent).SetFocus "
I want to use a tab form where the user can click add, search, and edit records all from 3 tabs. The problem is I only want to be able to add data on one form, edit data on another, and just read only on the search. This seems to cause a dilemma, how can I specifiy them to add, edit, and read only on one form using tabs?
Hey, I was messing about with tools>startup because I wanted a form to appear whent he database was opened.... I unchecked far too many options in there, and now I cannot design and modify my database anymore... it just goes straight to the form, but i cannot get anything back in design view.. is there a way to fix this??
In my program I have a tab control with three tabs in it, how can I tell which tab currently has focus (which tab is activated) in VB? I checked all the properties of the tabs, and there's no GetFocus or Value or anything like that, so how do I do it?
I have searched the forum on this, but I can't find an example of this problem.
I have a data entry form with a two-page tab control. One is for company info and the other for contact info. The recordsource is a query based on the two tables. Initially I had the page set up as a rather large form with a subform and decided to convert to the cleaner looking tab control (I used copy and paste to transfer the controls).
This form worked initially, but now I have changed some setting so that it doesn't work anymore: I can enter data properly on the first tab, but not on the second.
I have tried changing the various form properties but I must be missing something obvious. All my tab-less forms work the way I expect them to.
What I don't understand is why one tab works and not the other.
So I swear what I want to do isn't that difficult....ok so I can't get it to work, but I'm sure one of you gurus out there can. I hope =) At the very least tell me if it’s possible to do.
I have a form (Edit Expert) on this form is a combo box with a list of all the experts names. Below is a tab control with 2 tabs. Each tab has a subform on it with different info pertaining to experts. (contact info and education) what I want to happen is that when someone selects an expert, I want that experts info to be populated into the subforms. I have tried a macros (findExpert) that is attached to the after update property of the combo box. When there isn’t a tab control on the form and there is only one form, it works great, with tab control it says my filter isn’t based on a table or query and to use selectObject. However I have no idea what object to select. I have read the word doc that is floating around the forum about the syntax for main/subforms, but have gone in circles. However I am reasonably sure that that is were my problem is. I need to tell access to apply the filter to the subform on the tab control.
I tried to zip my db, but no matter what i do it's too big, so i hope this is enough info for you to go on. Please let me know if you need more information. Thanks a billion for your time and effort!! - me
I know this was mentioned and dealt with in another post, but I can't seem to find it. Basically, I have a couple of text boxes that I would like to hide, unless told to be visible by a command button.
I'm trying to do this to save space on the form.
Someone a while back had mentioned setting the height of the control to zero and also setting the control to canGrow. I tried this on a particular field and it didn't seem to work.
Scenario: I have a form that allows the user to enter various parameters to build a dynamic query behind the scenes. There are 'flavors' to this query process. I have a combo box from which the user selects the query type, and then I want only the proper controls to display to support the query the user chose. I have attempted this using the following code: Code:Dim ctrl as Control Select Case mdc_cboSelectChgType.ValueCase 1 'Cust Dist - AddFor Each ctrl In Me.ControlsIf InStr(ctrl.Tag, "mdc_ca") Thenctrl.VisibleEnd IfNext ctrlCase 2 'Cust Dist - Modify Case 3 'Cust Dist - Delete Case 4 'Pending Dist - Add Case 5 'Pending Dist - Modify Case 6 'Pending Dist - DeleteEnd Select Each Case statement would be built out similar to that in Case 1. I use distinct values in the control's Tag property to determine which controls to perform the operations on.
The problem is, however, that the ctrl.Visible throws an error: Object doesn't support this property or method.
Any suggestions for how to get around this? I'm stumped...I really thought this was going to work well....
I have a form with a lot of controls. To make it much more clear for users, I was thinking of adding tab controls or page breakes.
I have placed a tab control with two pages on my form and tried to move the existing controls on the required page but of course the control will show on all the pages.
Is there a way to bypass this without having to create a new form and placing controls one at the time?
I have 17 textboxes in my form and I want to make them disabled on a click of a button. But all this will take a lot of code writing, 17 names.enabled=false....
Is there a way to make a collection of all the 17 textboxes, like "controlsTEXT" in which I can add all of them at once and can disable all of them just by one statement like this...
