Opening A Form Based On The Same Table As The Calling Form

Hi All

I have a form based on a table called tblListMaster and I want to allow users to open up another form showing all the members of one of the entries in that table so I have added a button called 'Show List Members'.

The list members form which I then want to bring up is also based on tblListMembers (it's a master-detail form). When I hit the button to open up the list members form I get an error message saying that the table is already opened exclusively.

I can understand why I get that message so I thought I would be cunning and create a dummy form which I open up, passing in my list id in the openargs (at that point I also close the original form) and then from that dummy form automatically open up the master detail form and close the dummy.

Code in List Master form

Private Sub cmdListMembers_Click()
' open up the list members form

DoCmd.OpenForm "frmDummy", acNormal, , , , , Me.ListId
DoCmd.Close


End Sub

Code in Form Load of dummy form

Private Sub Form_Load()

DoCmd.OpenForm "frmMaintainListMembers", acNormal, , , , acWindowNormal, Me.OpenArgs
DoCmd.Close


End Sub

Sadly I still get the same error message - does any one have any ideas what I'm doing wrong?


Gordon