I have a small db of personal books with a tbl for authors and a tbl for books grouped by type. The main form is based on author with a subform for the books. i am sure I should be able to open the main form with a ‘where’ condition related to type on the subform but I can’t get the syntax right.
Can anyone help.
eg
Docmd.Openform “MainForm” _ WhereCondition:= “subform.Form![choice] = “myInput”
Thanks
Peter
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OpenForm from subForm (A2k sp1)
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AskWoody LoungerJune 6, 2002 at 6:50 pm #371958Viewing 0 reply threadsAuthorReplies-
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AskWoody LoungerJune 6, 2002 at 10:35 pm #592998your wrote:
>>The main form is based on author with a subform for the books. i am sure I should be able to open the main form with a ‘where’ condition related to type on the subform <<Peter,
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. The mainform must already be opened for you to see the subform, so what do mean by wanting to "open the main form"?
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WSherworth
AskWoody LoungerJune 7, 2002 at 6:11 pm #593221Sorry folks – I should have explained better. Let me try again.
Db opens to a form which is a menu of choices with command buttons. I choose a set of books by clicking a button and opening what I originally called the mainform, filtered to the appropriate list (F, P or O). So if I press “F” I get the main form with all the authors [Author] for “F” and the subform of all the book entries for those authors (to add, amend or print).
So the code behind the button reads something like:
DoCmd.OpenForm “MainForm”, wherecondition:=”[Choice]=’F'”
At the moment [Choice] (F, P or O) is on the main form but I would like it to be in the sub form ( for good reasons which needn’t go in to). So the code could then read something like:
DoCmd,OpenForm “MainForm”, wherecondition:=”subform.form![choice]=’F'” but that doesn’t work.
I hope that’s clearer. Anyone help??
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AskWoody LoungerJune 8, 2002 at 2:48 am #593330No, it doesn’t. You can’t open a main form based on a value in its subform, because the values in the subform depend on the value in the main form. This question has been wrestled with a number of times in this forum, so you might want to do a lounge search to see what alternatives have been suggested in the past.
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