I've got two subforms on an input form, and space is critical. In design view the forms are very close together (how I want them), as depicted in one snapshot. But then when I go to form view, each subform has a big gap below it, which spreads the two subforms apart on the form as shown in the other snapshot.
Why does this happen with subforms? I've poured through the formatting properties and can't figure out what causes this. Am I missing something?
Hi to all once again. I thought I had resolved this issue but the addition of more data has found a floor in my design.
I have a small DB I intend to use for auditing my companies hardware / software.
frmComputerSoftwareAllocation: Allows me to allocate software / software licenses to computers.
Process: I select the computer I wish to allocate software to: 'computerID'. I then select the software 'cboSoftwareID' and then allocate a license 'cboLicenseNum'.
As you know there can be multiple license keys for any one instance of software. So this leads me to my problem.
qryLicenseAllocated
Software ID of 32 = Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 1 * Volume License = 10 1 * OEM License = 1
Problem: As a test I alocated 1 volume license and the 1 OEM. When I ‘sum’ the number of licences from tblComputerSoftware instead of the query returning the desired result:
Microsoft Office Professional Edition : Licences Purchased 10 – Allocated 1 Microsoft Office Professional Edition : Licences Purchased 1 – Allocated 1
I get: Microsoft Office Professional Edition : Licences Purchased 10 – Allocated 2 Microsoft Office Professional Edition : Licences Purchased 1 – Allocated 2
I can see what it is doing but after a long day getting this far can not see how to resolve it!! Help very much appreciated. Phil.
The backstory: I've recently started a new job and as such now have responsibility (with no handover of any kind) for someone else's very very messy Access database that has bandaids upon bandaids. And I don't know that much about Access LOL. I thought I knew enough to get it to do what I wanted, but apparently not.
So, I'm trying to add a checkbox to a continuous form. I've added a Yes/No field to the database and made sure all the records are populated in this field. The checkbox I've added to the detail section of the continuous form is bound to this field.
Now the problem - when all the records are displayed in the continuous form, all the checkboxes show grey-ness. And you can't click on them - it says "Control can't be edited: its bound to an unknown field". But the field is definately there, and there are no typos. It doesn't even have to be editable in this form (although that would be handy), it just needs to show one way or the other!!
I know that the field works because I have a checkbox on a different (non-continuous) form bound to this field and it works fine there.
Anyone who can help me fix this problem wiill have my eternal gratitude :P
Will keeping your field size shorter result in a smaller MDB file?
Or does Access only use as much space as there is real data in its fields.
Way back in the dBASE III days, dBASE would pad all your "real" information with as many spaces as necessary to fill up your field. I suspect that the MDB structure is probably smarter than that.
Another question on the same topic - I believe there is a maximum number of characters in a record (4000?). Can your field sizes add up to more than 4000, as long as the actual data, all combined, never totals 4000...? Thanks............ ..dc
I have an unbound form on that form I want to put three sub forms one on a products table the other on a course start dates table and the link table that joins the other two together. all three are related to each other with Pk/FK links.
When I try to link them it says you cannot link items on an unbound form.
I'm trying to create an mdb that is well over 2 gig and everytime it gets to 2 gig, I get an Invalid argument statement. Is there any way to bypass this process and create an mdb in excess of 2 gig? I've tried linking tables, queries, etc and I have also compacted and this mdb is simply that big.
I'm still in design phase but I'm going to have more than 30 tables. I know I'm going to have a pretty good number of forms, queries and reports. Should I start preparing for the worst in case this db gets too big? What kind of techiques can I use to make sure that it still runs quickly enough?
I have a query that consists of three fields. This query is then placed in a form. I would like to set the physical length of my fields because one field consists of 4 digit numbers (I want the size of this to be relatively small) and the other two field consist of categories (field that need more space so that the user may see each letter of the category) Please help.
In the time-honoured fashion of reducing the size of the front end of a db I imported everything into a new db. The size reduced from 32mb to 17mb. Success.
When I change anything, no matter how small, in the new db, it immediately increases in size back to 32mb. I always compact on exit.
This is annoying, rather than a major problem. Am I doing something wrong or is this a “feature” of Access? Access 2000 on XP professional.
Is it possible when loading a control form to set the users default display size to say 1024x768. I'm creating quite a complex form and it will be too large on an 800x600 display.
we have one access database with size about 600mb and 1 million rows in one table.My concern is is it bad to have so much data in access database. If so what is the possible solution for that.
I'm not sure what happened, but my database size has gone from about 60MB to 290MB. I have added about 10 new records and had an AuditTrail function keeping track of history. I had problems with too many entries in this field, so I deleted the field and started fresh. I have also tried to compact and repair the database. Can anyone give me some light on this situation?
I will like to know if access can store a lot of data. I am using a database that was written in access and the database has been in use since like 2004. How long can we still use this database. It is becoming slow and having one or two error messages.
Hi, I am new ( as of today) to this forum. I have been using Access for a few years following on from using Q&A. I manage a database for membership for a club and more recently designed my own database for another personal application. Last weekend I did a full backup on a new laptop I have that has both Access 2003 and 2007 on it ( I don't use the 2007 version at the moment) and following that most of the databases, including backups have gone to zero kb in file size. I tried a system restore to no avail. I can see the files but they are 0kb in size and won't open. Does anyone have any idea why this should happen and more importantly how (if) I can resolve it ?. The laptop has Vista as the O/S.
Kind Regards & greetings from a wet and windy Dublin,
unfortunately I am making a form using more than 255 fields which is the max for access 97. I tried using more than 1 table but still no help. what can I do? will upgrading help?
There is probably a real simple way to do this but a couple of us are here racking our brains. :o Is there a way to tell how big a table is size wise? example 1.2mb
I have a query that consists of three fields. This query is then placed in a form. I would like to set the physical length of my fields because one field consists of 4 digit numbers (I want the size of this to be relatively small) and the other two field consist of categories (field that need more space so that the user may see each letter of the category) Please help.
Hello friends, I had converted a Access 97 database to Access XP. The original size of database was about 38 MB.Last week I worked with some queries of different types.Now the size is about 135 MB.How should I reduce the size of database again.I really also dont know whether it happened because of queries... :(
Hello out there I have a query to be conditioned by an input to a messsage box. An example could go like this:
SELECT [Quote politician].rubbish, [Quote politician].garbage, [Quote politician].bullshit FROM [Quote politician] WHERE [Quote politician].rubbish Like [Type the words or quotes of rubbish which your favourite politician has babbled];
The message box is not big enough to accomodate this long instruction. Is it possible to enlarge it?
on a form i have 2 fields one for import a file with the filedialog 2e for the size of that file how can i have te size from the file in that field can someone help me with that code
I use the Docmd.open form with acDialog parameter as I need to interrupt the code for the user to select some information before proceeding. Is there anyway to control the size of the dialog box as currently in a continuous form format, it only shows 3-4 records. The screen is large enough to hold probably 10+ comfortably. There are vertical scroll bars but I would like the dialog box to open with more than 4 records showing.
I have a button on Form1 that when clicked opens Form2. I want Form2 to be a certain size everytime it opens. I can't seem to get this to happen, it always resizes depending on Form1 being maximised or not.
